India Data & AI Associate Director

nVent Electrical Products India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

nVent seeks a seasoned head for India Data & AI to lead a multi-disciplinary team and shape the organization’s culture and performance. You will align workforce planning, succession, and growth paths with global priorities while driving ambitious data and analytics programs.

You will partner with global leaders to translate enterprise data and AI strategy into a practical, well-resourced roadmap, govern portfolios, and ensure value delivery across geographies.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data, analytics, and/or AI with growing leadership scope.
• 7+ years in senior people leadership leading managers and senior leads.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Data Science, Analytics, or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years in data management, analytics, or BI.
• Proven track record building and scaling data/AI teams in global enterprises.
• Experience across distributed geographies and reporting to senior leadership.
• Experience shaping enterprise data/AI strategy, including roadmaps and investments.
• Background in B2B manufacturing/industrial environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the India Data & AI organization as its most senior leader and set culture and standards.
• Manage managers and technical leads with strategic direction and coaching.
• Own the India talent agenda: workforce planning, hiring, succession, growth paths.
• Sustain a high-performance, collaborative, learning-focused culture.
• Liaise between India and global Data & AI leadership for aligned priorities.
• Translate enterprise strategy into a realistic, resourced roadmap.
• Oversee portfolio-level delivery across India workstreams and governance.
• Drive analytics delivery and responsible AI practices with global consistency.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

People management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, Data Science, or Analytics

Job description

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Organizational Leadership & People Development Lead the India Data & AI organization as its most senior leader, setting the tone for culture, performance expectations, and professional standards
• Manage a team of managers and technical leads, providing strategic direction, coaching, and accountability with a focus on developing the next layer of leadership
• Own the India organization's talent agenda: workforce planning, hiring strategy, succession planning, and creating clear growth pathways for technical and managerial talent at every level
• Build and sustain a high-performance culture that is collaborative, curious, accountable, and invested in continuous learning
• Serve as the primary liaison between the India organization and nVent's Data & AI leadership, ensuring consistent communication, aligned priorities, and effective ways of working across geographies
• Strategy & Portfolio Governance Partner with global Data & AI leadership to translate nVent's enterprise data and AI strategy into a roadmap that is realistic, well-sequenced, and resourced appropriately
• Own portfolio-level accountability across all India workstreams, monitoring delivery health, surfacing risks early, and making decisions about prioritization and resource allocation that span functional boundaries
• Contribute to enterprise planning cycles by representing India's capacity, capability, and delivery perspective in roadmap and investment discussions
• Drive the India team's operating model evolution while the organization scales. Address delivery practices and governance. Improve ways of working with the distributed team to support sustained growth.
• AI Portfolio Ownership Provide strategic direction and organizational accountability for nVent's AI solution development
• Ensure the AI delivery organization operates with velocity, governance alignment, and the engineering field required to move solutions reliably from use case to production
• Partner with collaborators to align the AI delivery portfolio with enterprise priorities, governance requirements, and expectations of business value
• Champion responsible AI practices, ensuring solutions are built with appropriate transparency, testing, and risk management
• Analytics Leadership & Global Delivery Lead the India Analytics function, owning delivery, quality, talent development, and organizational effectiveness across reporting, self-service enablement, and advanced analytics
• Partner with the Analytics leadership to build and complete our global analytics strategy, with shared standards, aligned priorities, and one consistent delivery model across geographies
• Co-own the global analytics roadmap and delivery model, resourcing, platform decisions, and extending global delivery
• Align analytics delivery to modern data platforms and certified data
• Data Governance Engagement Partner with enterprise Data Governance and Privacy leadership to ensure delivery activity is aligned to nVent's governance framework and regulatory obligations
• Promote governance-by-design culture making quality, transparency, and compliance a shared expectation
• Executive Collaborator Engagement Represent the India Data & AI organization to global technology and business leadership, communicating delivery status, strategic priorities, and organizational health with clarity and credibility
• Build trusted relationships with executive and functional leadership
• Participate in enterprise-level governance forums, investment reviews, and program steering committees
• Shape how nVent's global Data & AI leadership team understands, engages, and invests in the India organization

Requirements:

• 15+ years of progressive experience in data, analytics, and/or AI fields, with a clear arc of growing leadership scope and organizational accountability
• 7+ years in senior people leadership roles with demonstrated experience leading managers and senior technical leads
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related technical field
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in data management, analytics, or business intelligence
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing, multi-disciplinary data and AI organizations in a global enterprise environment
• Experience in a distributed, multi-geography model, with accountability to senior leadership in a separate location; experience as the most senior technology leader on a site is preferred
• Demonstrated success owning a portfolio of concurrent, delivery programs across multiple fields while maintaining organizational health and strategic alignment
• Experience contributing to enterprise data and AI strategy, including roadmap development, investment prioritization, and organizational design
• Experience in a B2B manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex enterprise environment is a plus
• Exceptional executive communication and influence skills to represent organizational priorities, risks, and needs credibly and persuasively to senior US-based leadership, business partners, and board-level audiences

WE HAVE:

A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation. Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com. Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers.

We’re known for being:

• Innovative & adaptable
• Dedicated to absolute integrity
• Focused on the customer first
• Respectful and team oriented
• Optimistic and energizing
• Accountable for performance

Benefits to support the lives of our employees

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth. At nVent, we are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law.