Product Manager — Industrial Process Cooling, EMEA

Trane Italia; Tribano; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Competitive pay

Career growth

The Academy training

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Trane Technologies is seeking a Product Manager for Industrial Process Cooling in the EMEA region. You will shape product strategy, translate market needs into solutions, and drive portfolio priorities across multiple functions to deliver sustainable, efficient cooling solutions for industrial customers.

Responsibilities include roadmap development, go-to-market planning, and lifecycle management, with a focus on uptime, reliability, and energy efficiency in diverse regional environments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product management or a related role.
• Strong understanding of industrial process cooling markets and trends.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer, market, and technical insights into product requirements and priorities.
• Define products addressing performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and sustainability requirements.
• Lead strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for the industrial process cooling portfolio.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap development

Stakeholder management

Market analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Customer needs

Education

Master's degree in engineering

Job description

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it’s our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world’s challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what’s possible for a sustainable world.

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Where is the work:

On-Site (5 days)

Product Manager — Industrial Process Cooling, EMEA

Position Summary

At Trane Technologies, we challenge possible to deliver leading climate and thermal technologies that help our customers improve performance while reducing their carbon footprint. We serve a broad range of industries and applications, with growing focus on sustainable, efficient, and reliable industrial process cooling solutions.

The Product Manager — Industrial Process Cooling plays a key role in shaping product strategy and execution for a critical portfolio supporting industrial customers across EMEA. This role is responsible for defining and driving solutions that meet demanding customer requirements for process reliability, operational efficiency, temperature control, uptime, and sustainability.

This role requires a strong understanding of industrial customer requirements, application trends, and process cooling market dynamics. A forward-looking mindset and the ability to translate market developments into winning product strategies are essential.

The successful candidate will translate customer needs, market trends, and technical requirements into differentiated product strategies that support customer value, innovation, and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate customer, market, and technical insights into product requirements, feature priorities, and portfolio investment decisions.
• Serve as a key voice of the market and customer in defining products that address performance, reliability, serviceability, energy efficiency, and sustainability requirements.
• Assess market trends in , de-centralized process cooling, thermal management, fluid cooling and heating, , and sustainable industrial operations to inform portfolio direction.
• Lead product strategy, roadmap development, and lifecycle management for the industrial process cooling portfolio.
• Develop a strong understanding of industrial process cooling applications, system architectures, hydronic and refrigerant-based systems, heat rejection strategies, and integration requirements across customer environments.
• Build business cases for new product development, portfolio expansion, and lifecycle decisions.
• Support product launches and commercialization through positioning, customer value proposition development, sales enablement, and market introduction planning.
• Monitor product line performance across revenue, margin, adoption, competitive position, and customer satisfaction metrics.
• Partner with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, sales, marketing, and service teams to develop and launch competitive industrial process cooling solutions.
• Work closely with technical teams to understand system-level tradeoffs involving capacity, temperature range, efficiency, refrigerants, controls, redundancy, maintainability, and installation constraints.
• Support lifecycle planning from concept through launch, sustainment, and end-of-life management.
• Engage with regional market teams and customers to identify unmet needs, emerging applications, and opportunities for growth across industrial segments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, , or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, , or a related business or technical role.
• Strong understanding of industrial process cooling markets, applications, and trends.
• Demonstrated success leading products or portfolios in a matrixed, cross-functional environment.
• Experience developing roadmaps, business cases, and go-to-market strategies.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical ability, and business acumen.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance customer needs, technical feasibility, and financial performance in decision-making.
• Ability to engage credibly with technical stakeholders on process cooling applications, product requirements, and customer use cases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with industrial process cooling systems, chillers, heat pumps, thermal management systems, HVAC hydronics, or refrigeration applications.
• Strong understanding of industrial customer processes and requirements across sectors such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, manufacturing, battery, or other temperature-critical environments.
• Understanding of system concepts such as fluid temperature control, pumping, heat exchangers, heat recovery, controls, refrigerants, and energy optimization.
• Knowledge of customer requirements related to uptime, reliability, maintainability, scalability, safety, and energy efficiency.
• Experience in a global industrial or climate technology environment.

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• customer-centric thinking
• strategic and commercial acumen
• strong collaboration and influence
• technical curiosity and domain learning agility
• disciplined execution
• a passion for innovation and sustainable growth

We offer:

• Permanent contract, CLA Metalmeccanico C011
• Competitive compensation package: Enjoy an attractive base salary and all necessary work tool / IT devices
• Career growth: Join a global leader in sustainable HVAC solutions and leverage numerous opportunities for professional development.
• Training and learning: Engage in The Academy’s dedicated learning paths, covering both technical and soft skills, alongside a variety of online training courses and live events hosted by industry experts.
• Support and wellbeing: Benefit from our Career Navigator program, and an employee wellbeing program.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:

€52.400,00 - €74.304,99

Compensation Type:

Salary

Incentive Eligible:

Yes

Sales Commission Eligible:

No

Disclaimer : We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.