Product Manager

nVent Enclosure Systems LLC; Anoka (MN); On-site; USD 105,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

nVent Enclosure Systems LLC in the United States seeks an experienced leader to drive product strategy, portfolio growth, and lifecycle management across major product categories. You will partner with customers, distributors, and internal teams to identify opportunities and optimize profitability.

You will own pricing, go-to-market strategies, and launches, ensuring channel readiness and alignments across engineering, marketing, and sales.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a comparable area of study.
• 7+ years of experience in product management, product marketing, category management, program management, or a related commercial leadership role.
• Demonstrated success leading product strategy, commercialization, pricing, and portfolio performance.
• Experience working with distribution channels, direct sales organizations, or manufacturers' representatives preferred.
• Exposure to industrial automation, electrical contractor, utility, or related industrial markets preferred.
• MBA Preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement product strategies and roadmaps that support growth, profitability, and market leadership.
• Lead cross-functional teams to align priorities and deliver business results.
• Drive revenue and margin growth by developing pricing, positioning, channel, and go-to-market strategies.
• Partner with distributors, manufacturers' representatives, sales teams, contractors, designers, and end users to identify market opportunities.
• Lead new product introductions from concept through commercialization.
• Own launch planning, sales enablement, channel readiness, product positioning, and commercialization activities.
• Lead the full product lifecycle, including development, growth, maturity, rationalization, and obsolescence.
• Track performance metrics and implement initiatives that improve revenue, profitability, customer experience, quality, and delivery.

Skills

Product management

Product marketing

Category management

Program management

Commercial leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Pricing strategies

Channel strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering

MBA preferred

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.

In this role, you will lead the strategy, profitability, and long-term growth of the Hoffman North American Commercial product portfolio. You will serve as the business leader for your product categories, partnering with customers, channel partners, sales, engineering, marketing, and operations to identify growth opportunities, bring new products to market, and optimize portfolio performance throughout the product lifecycle.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE:

Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership

- Develop and implement product strategies and roadmaps that support growth, profitability, and market leadership.
- Use customer insights, market research, competitive intelligence, and financial performance data to guide investment and portfolio decisions.
- Find opportunities for portfolio expansion, rationalization, and new product development.
- Lead cross-functional teams to align priorities and deliver business results.

Commercial Growth & Channel Strategy

- Drive revenue and margin growth by developing effective pricing, positioning, channel, and go-to-market strategies.
- Partner with distributors, manufacturers' representatives, sales teams, contractors, designers, and end users to identify market opportunities and improve customer adoption.
- Build business cases and strategic recommendations that strengthen portfolio performance and market position.

Product Launch & Lifecycle Management

- Lead new product introductions from concept through commercialization.
- Own launch planning, sales enablement, channel readiness, product positioning, and commercialization activities.
- Lead the full product lifecycle, including development, growth, maturity, rationalization, and obsolescence.
- Track performance metrics and implement initiatives that improve revenue, profitability, customer experience, quality, and delivery.

Market & Competitive Intelligence

- Monitor market trends, customer needs, new technologies, and competitive activity.
- Find opportunities across key growth markets including industrial automation, utilities, clean energy sectors, and data center facilities.
- Evaluate partnership, acquisition, and private-label opportunities that support portfolio growth.

YOU HAVE:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a comparable area of study.
- 7+ years of experience in product management, product marketing, category management, program management, or a related commercial leadership role.
- Demonstrated success leading product strategy, commercialization, pricing, and portfolio performance.
- Experience working with distribution channels, direct sales organizations, or manufacturers' representatives preferred.
- Exposure to industrial automation, electrical contractor, utility, or related industrial markets preferred.
- MBA Preferred.
- Ability to travel up to 15%.

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

Pay Transparency

nVent’s pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee’s work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.

Compensation Range:
$105,000.00 - $195,000.00

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

- Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
- A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
- Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

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.

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