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Job Description
On behalf of CUBIC, a Rockwell Automation Company, we are looking for a Global Product Manager.
The Product Manager is a global role that is responsible for the CUBIC Modular portfolio, accessories, and options. Key leadership responsibilities to support this portfolio includes product launches, strategic planning, customer product alignment, pricing, negotiations, forecasting, business promotion, competitive analysis, and product lifecycle management. This role will oversee the execution on specific product areas such as quality, delivery, customer satisfaction, and productivity. Reporting directly to the Global Business Manager, you'll gain unique insights and strategic guidance, making this role important to shaping the future of our product offerings.
There will be direct customer interaction to support customer engagements globally. The Product Manager will also provide the short-term and long-term strategic business direction and how it aligns with Development, Operations and Engineering service partners.
Your Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain strategic planning for the CUBIC Modular portfolio through a BSR (Business Strategy Review) process.
- Manage the profit and loss and financial objectives of the product portfolio to meet annual operating financial metrics.
- Ownership of business unit customer relationships and assist Rockwell Sales Account Managers and Distributor partners with pro-actively addressing customer inquiries and issues.
- End-to-end ownership and responses for new product development, product enhancements or customer/sales inquiries.
- Experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences to direct the actions of Engineering, Quality, Technical Support, Manufacturing, Sales and Operations partners.
- This role will have several geographically distributed key stakeholders and require operating through cross functional teams in a dynamic, matrix-style organization.
- Applies market, customer, industry, application, and technical knowledge to assist in preparing product development specifications with features, price, cost, and reliability objectives for product development projects.
- Oversee the execution of product quality field issue resolution, in collaboration with Rockwell Sales, Quality and Remote/Field Technical Support teams. Role will have ownership of the messaging to the customer.
- Provide Product Management leadership to the Continuation Engineering team for product quality improvements, cost reductions, parts obsolescence, and to meet evolving standards and customer requested product changes and enhancements.
- Work with the Product Quality Leads in support of quality resolution, improvement actions and customer responses.
- Partner and collaborate with Operations and Customer Care to prioritize backlog to help meet customer on time delivery expectations.
- Develop and manage commercial programs to generate new business and increase market share.
- Collaborate with partner business units to ensure product and system solutions are effective at solving customer challenges
- Define, track and report on key business objectives and goals to senior leaders. Ensure team and partners are effectively working to exceed these goals and objectives.
The Essentials - You Will Have:
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Computer or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
- This role is required to travel nationally/internationally up to 20%.
The Preferred - You Might Also Have:
- A minimum of three years experience in leading tactical directions for products and/or projects.
- A minimum of seven years in an Industrial Automation/Power Control Product Management and/or Engineering role where you have worked closely with Industrial Automation products and technologies including Low Voltage Switchboards.
- Experience with commercial and technical leadership including strategy development, profit and loss management and customer relationship management.
- Familiarity with the global Industrial Automation and and/or Low Voltage Switchboards market space and trends.
- Experience working in a matrix organization supporting a global portfolio.
What We Offer:
- Robust Environment: join an open, collegial, and international team with challenging tasks.
- Professional Growth: access to internal and external training, continuing education, and career development support.
- Flexibility: work from home (flex office) and enjoy flexible working hours.
- Social Benefits: beyond legal requirements, we offer additional perks to enhance your well-being.
At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.
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