Product Manager - Switchgear Modernization

Eaton; Greenwood (SC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health and Welfare benefits

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Eaton, based in Greenwood, SC, is seeking a Product Manager for Switchgear Modernization. The role includes leading strategic planning, collaborating across sales and engineering, and driving product marketing initiatives.

The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree and at least five years of experience. The position offers a competitive salary between $130,000 and $190,000 and opportunities for incentives. Eaton is committed to diverse equal employment opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in technical marketing, engineering, sales, strategic planning, operations, or product management.
• Experience managing direct reports and new product launches.
• Understanding the Switchgear Modernization offering and competitive landscape.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning process for the product line.
• Communicate go-to-market strategy and manage demand creation.
• Provide leadership for product development and marketing initiatives.
• Collaborate with other product lines to create customer synergies.

Skills

Technical background with product experience

Analytical and critical thinking

Effective communication

Collaboration and decision-making in matrix organization

Quantitative analysis skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or Associate’s degree with relevant experience

Master’s Degree in Business Administration or Engineering (Preferred)

Job description

Eaton's Electrical Sector is currently seeking a Product Manager - Switchgear Modernization. This position can be based in Moon Township, PA, or Greenwood, SC. Relocation assistance is available! This business encompasses approximately $50M annual sales covering the reconditioning and replacement of power circuit breakers from all major manufacturers.

The Product Manager must interact with customers, sales, engineering, operations, and other product lines to ensure the achievement of growth and profitability goals.

Expected annual salary range: $130,000 - $190,000. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

What You’ll Do

• Lead strategic planning process for the product line working closely with operational leader, and including the alignment with the sales, engineering, finance, and operations functions.
• Clearly define and communicate the PL go-to-market strategy and market segmentation, managing the marketing mix (4 P’s) and demand creation to ensure a healthy opportunities pipeline.
• Profit and loss accountability for the product line to meet revenue and margin objectives.
• Provide leadership and drive for results of product development, marketing initiatives, front-end process improvements, and segment specific execution that enhance the ease of doing business.
• Understand the technical and competitive landscape along with market trends while maintaining a comprehensive understanding of Swg Mod applications as they apply to product capability and availability.
• Collaborate with other EESS product lines to create synergies for specific customers and segments.
• Recruit, manage, and effectively coach the Application Engineering team supporting Swg Mod.
• Provide strategic marketing direction for new product/service development informed by competitors’ positioning and market trends, and to execute launches.
• Serve as the product line spokesperson in key customer interactions and negotiations with customers.
• Communicate and present strategy and results to Senior Leadership.
• Collaborate with operations leader to develop, deploy, and execute pricing strategy to meet revenue, share and profitability targets across the PL offering.
• Work with marcom team to support the promotion of the PL, including traditional promotional materials as well as online and multimedia assets.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and five (5) years of experience in technical marketing, engineering, sales, strategic planning, operations or product management or Associate’s degree with seven (7) years of experience in technical marketing, engineering, sales, strategic planning, operations or product management or in lieu of degree ten (10) years of experience in technical marketing, engineering, sales, strategic planning, operations or product management.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration or Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Experience with market analysis and new product launches.
• Previous experience managing direct reports.
• 5 years of experience in providing sales/field support and customer/industry presentations.
• Experience working with product configuration and quotation tools (e.g. Bid Manager take-offs, pricing tools).
• Understanding of the Switchgear Modernization offering and competitive landscape.

Skills

• Must possess technical background with experience in products.
• Must be a highly analytical/critical thinker and comfortable in dealing with ambiguity.
• Must be comfortable working in matrix organization to drive collaboration and decision making.
• Must be able to communicate effectively at a variety of different organizational levels.
• Ability to synthesize disparate and complex information and simplify into effective presentations and recommendations to facilitate decision making with senior leaders.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills required.
• Excellent quantitative analysis skills, especially developing business opportunity cases.
• Ability to collaborate with businesses, peers, partners, and customers.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Eaton marketing competencies.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work.

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