Global Product Manager (Liquid Cooling)

Position Summary

Vertiv is looking for a colleague to join our team as a Global Product Manager, Liquid Cooling. This position will be responsible for managing the Product Lifecycle, supporting the business growth and gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the go-to-market and the marketing plan. You will be responsible for developing sales and marketing strategies and plans to maximize product revenue and profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute product lifecycle management plans including product introduction, line extension, engineered to order, and end of production.

• Research market trends, demand drivers, customer needs, and the competitive landscape.

• Collect voice of customers and products business cases for global products.

• Addressing actions to reduce finished goods inventory and support business decisions in case of major supply chain issues and assist in championing resolution of offering issues (i.e. delivery, quality, inventory).

• Work alongside Operations and Material planning to ensure competitive lead time, inventory optimization and meet revenue targets.

• Manage list pricing and multipliers

• Manage product line profitability, volume forecasts, price gain.

• Ensure all customer facing offering documentation and marketing collateral is available and accurate and specific for the region, country, and market segment.

• Prepare and deliver presentations, product demos, competitive comparisons and other sales enablement tools and collaterals.

• Attend tradeshows, visit customers, meet with sales team, distributors and partners to ensure an accurate voice of customer is heard in all product plans.

• Develop and track metrics to measure post-launch sales performance of new offerings, including pipeline, quotation.

• Collaborate with Marketing teams to develop marketing programs.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering

• 7+ years technical, product/service, strategic planning, marketing or directly related experience.

• Experience with HVAC and Data center applications is preferred.

• Strong business acumen.

• Ability to quickly develop cross-functional relationships to achieve business objectives.

• Technical expertise to translate customer needs/pain points to solutions.

• Demonstrated competence in problem solving, data analysis, & project management.

• Excellent communications skills - written & verbal.

• High focus on customer needs.

• Able to combine long term and short-term goals by setting priorities.

• Ability to interact with all levels within the organization from entry level to executive.

• Attitude to act as a leader in his/her role and with curiosity in all what's new (market trends, new technologies, etc.).

• Language skills: fluent English written and verbal required.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, Smartsheet, and other business applications.

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