VP, Global Energy Storage

Vertiv Group; Delaware (OH); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv seeks a VP, Global Energy Storage to lead the product management and development of the Energy Storage portfolio worldwide. This role interfaces with operations, quality, procurement, services, and finance to drive strategy and roadmap for the global business.

You will steer a global team of engineers, product managers, and program managers, shaping the roadmap and ensuring profitable growth. MBA and 15+ years leadership preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in mechanical or electrical engineering.
• MBA preferred for leadership track and business acumen.
• Minimum 15+ years in leading product business segments with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Energy Storage strategy and business plan with regional teams.
• Oversee global engineering, product management, and program management teams.
• Manage global product portfolio, roadmap, and NPD/Introduction processes.
• Analyze global market size, share, and growth opportunities for Energy Storage.
• Develop 3-year revenue plans with regional product management teams.
• Coordinate quarterly interlocks on priorities, launches, performance.
• Manage OPEX and CAPEX budgets for Energy Storage teams.
• Own global market messaging and tailor to regional needs.
• Incorporate market and sales inputs into roadmap and requirements.
• Present status at quarterly updates and executive reviews.

Skills

Global product strategy

Roadmaps

Financial leadership

Stakeholder management

Power BI

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

MBA (preferred)

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The VP, Global Energy Storage product line will lead the product management and product development of Vertiv’s Global Energy Storage business. This role is responsible for developing and executing strategy to deliver business growth, profitability, and gain market share globally. This role will have high visibility and be a key interface with functions such as operations, quality, procurement, services, and finance to drive the product strategy and roadmap for Energy Storage global product portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the Energy Storage strategy and business plan in cooperation with functional and regional teams.
• Directly oversee the global engineering, product management, and program management teams for the Energy Storage business.
• Direct responsibility to manage the product portfolio globally, development roadmap and prioritization, and oversee the New Product Development and Introduction process.
• Understanding overall Energy Storage market size globally, Vertiv share, and opportunities to drive growth for the Energy Storage business.
• Work with regional offering product management to develop 3-year revenue plan.
• Quarterly regional interlocks to ensure alignment on priorities, resource needs, product launch and business performance.
• Develop and manage OPEX and CAPEX budget for Energy Storage global team.
• Owns the Energy Storage business market messaging globally to ensure consistency across regions as well as tailoring to meet specific end market and regional needs.
• Guiding product management to ensure inputs from market stakeholders, regional product offering and sales teams on market trends, opportunities, and customer needs are a key input into overall roadmap, product requirements and overall strategy.
• Present the status of the business and programs at quarterly team updates and executive business reviews.

Competencies For Success

• Communications Skills: Ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization, promote ideas persuasively; ability to manage situations including senior leaders and external groups.
• Customer Focus: Work well with Sales teams and customers to understand opportunities and latent needs to drive opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
• Strategic Thinking: Evaluating trends, developing long-term implications, and recommending pragmatic strategies for continuous improvement and new opportunities.
• Analytical Rigor: Ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and intellectual leadership to problem solving; synthesize insights from analysis and ensure credible, actionable recommendations.
• Agility: the acumen to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously managing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands on the operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering discipline.
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant business experience in leading a product business segment with engineering and product management reports globally, ideally in the Energy Storage business.
• 5+ years financial and business leadership experience.
• Experience developing product strategy, roadmaps, positioning, and messaging globally.
• Ability to research, classify, prioritize requirements, communicate among stakeholders, and present ideas in an easily comprehensible manner.
• Superior organizational and prioritization skills - ability to multi-task in a fast-paced dynamic environment while managing associated stress.
• Ability to deal with highly confidential information.
• Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI

Time Travel Required

• 25% travel, domestic and internationally

About Us

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPLES: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• High-Performance Culture
• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

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