Vertical Market Director, Datacenter (Hubbell site flexible)

Hubbell Lighting Inc; Shelton (CT); On-site; USD 201,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, life and disability

401(k) with company match

Holidays, vacation, sick time, and PTO

Job summary

Hubbell Lighting Inc in Shelton, CT is seeking a Director of Vertical Market to shape strategic growth across Hubbell’s vertical offerings. You will partner with VP Strategy, Sales, and Business Units to translate customer insights into a clear go-to-market position and a portfolio roadmap.

The role prioritizes cross-functional leadership, long-term planning, and strong executive communication. You will guide product transformations, drive strategic initiatives, and travel up to 25% to engage

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field
• Deep industry knowledge of the Vertical space
• Previous leadership experience (required)
• 5-10+ years of Supervisory/Management experience
• Lead product transformation visioning and roadmap while rolling up sleeves
• Executive communication and relationship building with senior stakeholders
• Strong strategic planning, problem solving, and market analysis skills
• Able to influence business/marketing strategy with competitive insights
• Excellent verbal and written communication and executive presentation skills
• Highly motivated, collaborative and creative

Responsibilities

• Develop a vision and strategic direction of Hubbell’s Vertical offerings aligned with customer needs and segment strategy
• Develop multi-year portfolio roadmap (GTM, product, M&A, business models)
• Create a growth model with roadmap investments and risk factors
• Translate needs into new products and solutions with BU product teams
• Coordinate execution of initiatives from idea to launch across functions
• Develop market outlook, competitive landscape and application trends
• Align with marketing on market positioning and customer-facing collateral
• Drive decisions with stakeholders and remove roadblocks
• Create dashboards to measure leading indicators and performance
• Articulate vertical strategy to leadership and external stakeholders
• Travel up to 25%

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Market analysis

Project management

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Executive presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field

Job description

Job Overview

Reporting directly to the VP Strategy, the Director Vertical Market is responsible for developing the strategic growth and profitability plan for the vertical and gaining support from the requisite VPGMs, who own the strategy for their business/product lines. In this role, you will work closely with Sales and Business Unit leaders to uncover and translate customer insights, business needs and industry trends to establish a strategic vision, clear go-to-market position and portfolio roadmap to drive growth in the vertical market. In this role, you will work cross functionally across the segment and business units to translate the strategic vision into tactical roadmaps and tangible milestones with clear success criteria, while ensuring alignment across all internal stakeholders. This highly strategic role requires a resourceful individual with organizational experience, strong communication skills, self-motivation, excellent communication skill and a solid background in the vertical industry.

A Day In The Life

Every Day At Hubbell Is Different And You’ll Contribute In Many Ways. On Any Given Day, You’ll Make a Difference By

• Responsible for developing a vision and strategic direction of Hubbell’s Vertical offerings to ensure they align with customer needs, business growth, and overall segment strategy.


• Develop multi-year portfolio roadmap (e.g. GTM, product, M&A, business models) that meets company goals and identify/mitigate barriers to success


• Develop comprehensive growth model incorporating key roadmap investments, accelerators and risk factors.


• Work closely with different business unit’s product development teams to translate key needs and requirements into agreed upon new products and solutions that serve unmet vertical needs strengthening Hubbell’s differentiated value proposition.


• Coordinate the execution of all key initiatives from idea to launch across functions and respective BUs to deliver profitable and customer-focused solutions for the Vertical


• Develop comprehensive market outlook, competitive landscape, and application trends to help drive strategy and market positioning.


• Partner with marketing team to aligned with Vertical Strategy on market positioning to partner to develop a comprehensive customer facing marketing plan (collateral, web, digital, tradeshows) to enhance our presence, relevancy and drive successful adoption of new products and existing products in the Vertical space.


• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders/senior management/cross-functional teams to drive quicker decisions and identify, manage and clear business and technical roadblocks.


• Develop metrics/dashboards of leading indicators to measure success and improvement.


• Distill and cascade core tenants of our Vertical strategy and vision for leadership and for other internal and external stakeholders.


• Travel as needed (up to 25%)

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field


• Deep industry knowledge of the Vertical space


• Previous leadership experience (required)


• 5-10+ years of Supervisory/Management experience


• Must be able to lead product transformation visioning and roadmap, while at the same time being comfortable in rolling up sleeves and lead day- to day activities


• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills


• Strong strategic planning and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on long term growth


• Ability to establish and maintain robust professional relationships at the executive level


• Proficiency in market analysis, data interpretation, and strategic decision making


• Strong networking skills, with the ability to represent the company at industry events and conferences


• Strong collaboration skills and commitment to interdisciplinary thinking – ability to work across teams focused on strategy, technology, and marketing of new product and solutions.


• Successful at managing and delivering a wide variety product solution to internal and external stakeholders.


• Strong business acumen


• Solid planning, priority setting and project management skills with experience managing multiple projects and resources concurrently.


• Proven experience influencing a business or marketing strategy through the application and/or management of competitive information, market awareness and product positioning.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including executive presentation skills, and adept at developing relationships across diverse teams.


• Highly motivated, collaborative and creative.

Hubbell Offers a Competitive Benefits Package That Includes

• medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and supplemental benefits.


• 401(k) Retirement Plan with company provided 4% automatic contribution and a Company match of 50% on employee contributions up to 6%.


• 11 employer-paid holidays, flexible vacation, 40 hours sick time, and 8 paid volunteer hours.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $201,200 - $244,000. Final pay will be determined based on the selected candidate's experience, skills, qualifications and work location and may vary accordingly.

Hubbell Incorporated

Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently. The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses. We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.

Hubbell Electrical Solutions

Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. HES provides the critical components that allow operators of buildings, factories and other industrial infrastructure to connect, protect, wire and manage power.

Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.