Global Senior Product Lead - Refrigeration Controllers

Danfoss; Venezia; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Danfoss seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the global direction of its commercial refrigeration controller business and shape strategy, product development, and investment decisions for solutions used in food service, beverage, and professional kitchens worldwide.

You will lead cross‑functional teams across Sales, Marketing, R&D, and operations, translating market insights into clear requirements, roadmaps, and business cases. International travel and collaboration are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field; refrigeration, HVAC, controls, electronics, mechatronics, or software knowledge is an advantage.
• Significant experience in product management, portfolio management, business development, or a comparable commercially oriented technical role in an international B2B environment.

Responsibilities

• Set the global direction and build the growth strategy for commercial refrigeration controller solutions across food service, food and beverage, professional kitchens, cold rooms, and related applications, by identifying attractive segments, unmet customer needs, and a prioritized pipeline of opportunities.
• Be the voice of the customer and translate insight into action by engaging with OEMs, installers, wholesalers, service partners, end users, and regional sales teams, and turning what you learn into customer requirements, value propositions, feature priorities, acceptance criteria, and strong business cases.
• Shape and manage the roadmap, balancing customer value, platform leverage and scalability, competitiveness, lifecycle health, and financial impact.
• Take full responsibility for the product range by owning product lifecycle management, topline growth, and profitability of the portfolio, from opportunity assessment through development, launch, growth, simplification, repositioning, or phase‑out; recommend portfolio investments and lifecycle decisions to senior leadership.
• Influence across the organization and represent the portfolio externally by aligning Product Management, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, and technical support, and building trusted relationships with key customers and partners.

Job description

Danfoss seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the global direction of its commercial refrigeration controller business and shape strategy, product development, and investment decisions for solutions used in food service, beverage, and professional kitchens worldwide.

You will lead cross‑functional teams across Sales, Marketing, R&D, and operations, translating market insights into clear requirements, roadmaps, and business cases. International travel and collaboration are required.