Product Lifecycle Manager

ABB; New Berlin (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB is seeking a Product Lifecycle Manager to lead lifecycle learning from field performance and ensure it informs product management, R&D and sales. You will analyze changes, coordinate impact assessments and drive improvements within ABB's Low Voltage System Drives portfolio in a global, hybrid role based in New Berlin, WI.

You will partner with Product Management, Engineering, R&D and Service to optimize processes, dashboards and reporting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product engineering, product management, portfolio management, R&D or similar area.
• 5+ years experience in leading people with or without line manager authority.
• M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree in electrical/electronics engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Experience on process development is a benefit.
• Experience on frequency converters is an asset.
• Willingness to travel internationally (approx. 15%).

Responsibilities

• Developing a new process, related documentation (reports, dashboards) and meeting practices to support efficient product lifecycle decision making and a learning organization.
• Overseeing the process and ensuring execution of related tasks with stakeholders.
• Coordinating and conducting change impact analysis of additions, enhancements or simplifications of the existing product portfolio.
• Facilitating continuous improvements along with the execution of lifecycle changes.
• Managing global projects, involving stakeholders from various functions and local units.

Skills

10+ years in product engineering/PM/RD

Leadership experience

Education

MSc or BSc in electrical/electronics or mechanical engineering

Job description

This position reports to:

Global BL Quality & Lifecycle Manager

Your role and responsibilities

As new industries turn to electrification, it is more vital than ever that we can support ABB's customers with their new challenges and ensure that our Low Voltage System Drives products meet emerging requirements. That is why we are establishing a new role of Product Lifecycle Manager in our Quality & Lifecycle organization.

In this role, you will ensure that learnings from field performance and reliability testing reach all needed stakeholders for example in product management, R&D and sales. You will also analyze the effects of planned changes or new products on the existing technical offering and customer installed base. The target is to fully leverage accumulated product performance data to support business growth.

This role is contributing to ABB's Low Voltage System Drives business line in Motion High Power division. You will work in close collaboration with stakeholders from division's Product Management, Product Engineering, R&D and Service.

This is a global role but location is set to be one of these: Finland (Helsinki), China (Beijing), Germany (Mannheim), USA (New Berlin, WI) or India (Bangalore). The work model for the role is: hybrid, #LI-Hybrid.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Initial phase: Developing a new process, related documentation (reports, dashboards) and meeting practices to support efficient product lifecycle decision making and a learning organization
• Overseeing the process and ensuring execution of related tasks with stakeholders
• Coordinating and conducting change impact analysis of additions, enhancements or simplifications of the existing product portfolio
• Facilitating continuous improvements along with the execution of lifecycle changes
• Managing global projects, involving stakeholders from various functions and local units

Qualifications for the role

• 10+ years of experience on product engineering, product management, portfolio management, R&D or similar area.
• 5+ years experience in leading people with or without line manager authority
• M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree in electrical /electronics engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent
• Experience on process development is a benefit
• Experience on frequency converters is an asset
• You enjoy taking on new challenges and working with people across different functions, perspectives, and backgrounds to move ideas forward.
• Readiness for international travel, estimated 15% of work time

More about us

ABB High Power division is the market leader in high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial process and large infrastructure applications, and a leading supplier of power conversion equipment for renewable energy and other applications. The division offers global support to help customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications.

If you have questions, please contact Global Business Line Quality & Lifecycle Manager, Johanna Honkanen, at one of these times (according to Finland's time): Oct 29 between 1-3pm, or Nov 2 between 8.30-9.30am.

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