Product Manager

Product Manager

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Product Management Manager - ELIP commer

Your role and responsibilities

As a Product Manager, you will be a key member of the product management and marketing team in ABB’s Electrification Installation Products (ELIP), formerly Thomas & Betts. You will be responsible for the immediate and long-term profitable growth and marketing of the portfolio. You will also oversee all steps in the life cycle of products, systems or services, including development, launch, maintenance, pricing and profitability of ELIP’s products in Canada. The incumbent (individual) will accomplish this through the management of the strategic product roadmap, building demand generating marketing plans for their assigned products, and other assigned responsibilities. This role is contributing to the Electrification, Installation Products division of ABB and is located in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. The work model is hybrid, with 2 days per week at the office.

Responsibilities:

• Taking accountability for end-to-end P&L accountability of the portfolio, ensuring profitability is in line with business goals, and fulfilling customer orders. Tracking and analyzing product and systems performance and trends.
• Managing both new and existing products; leading life cycle management process from phase-in to phase-out to ensure current and future market requirements are met and maximize profitability.
• Collaborating with internal Marketing and Sales teams to define the marketing plan, communication, training, and sales initiatives to ensure best market coverage.
• Collaborating closely with sales to develop regional and national growth strategies and meeting with customers to understand their needs.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with new and existing customers to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction. Understanding customer needs in the market by visiting customers and developing product support and training to ensure high customer satisfaction.
• Creating and delivering product training to internal teams.
• Owning the product road map, working with R&D to propose and evaluate product feasibility projects and roadmaps for new products; responsibility for achievement of targets (product characteristics, time, costs, pay-back).
• Conducting market intelligence analysis to identify potential gaps in the portfolio against competition and new market opportunities.
• Ensuring technical and commercial support to the sales force for critical or special negotiations.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Marketing, Engineering, or related field.
• Bilingual French and English. French is required, English is necessary to communicate with clients outside of Quebec.
• 5 years of experience in product management, sales is required.
• Experience in electrical construction (asset).
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Experience with customer relations via service, visits, relationships, etc (asset).
• Comfortable with taking critical decisions combined with a strong sense of ownership.
• Available for travel 20%-30% of the time in Canada.

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the ninth consecutive year, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine. Consistently ranked as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Best Employers, Canada's Best Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and a long-time recipient of the Women in Governance Parity Certification, ABB's culture and commitment is to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces.