Sr. Product Manager, Racks

Job Summary 

The Product Manager, Racks and Containment gathers and analyzes customer needs, evaluates market and regulatory trends, develops new product roadmaps and strategy, leads presales support, and works collaboratively with others to drive profitable growth and innovation.  This position is directly responsible for the global Racks and Containment offerings, working with regional and functional teams to achieve milestones and objectives. The Product Manager, prioritizes, costs, methods, and resourcing in a global, matrixed environment. 

Vertiv IT Systems is a Global Business Unit that helps Customers solve the increasingly significant challenge of Digital Continuity for users of digital applications across the world, leveraging a mix of technology leadership, global company scale, regional familiarity, and a proficiency for understanding the Customer. 

Digital Continuity solutions include: 

• Critical infrastructure hardware [power, cooling, enclosures, ancillary], software, & services enabling the continuous functionality of IT assets running digital applications across cloud, enterprise, industry, and communications spaces. 
• Deployments are anchored in two broad segments: Edge Rack Systems, and Data Center Rack Systems 
• Data Center Rack Systems deployments tend toward two specializations: High Density Solution and Data Center Pods Customers include: 
• End users and technology service providers, ranging from Fortune 10 global companies to small businesses, across verticals and government entities. 
• Channel Partners, from server OEMs to IT & Electrical Distributors, Resellers, and Managed Service Providers. 

The objective of the Product Manager, Racks and Containment position is to lead revenue, market share, and profitability gains in the growing racks and cabinet market, globally, through development and delivery of innovative solutions for digital critical infrastructure deployments in typically in cloud, colocation, and enterprise data center settings. 

Responsibilities: 

• Responsibility for the financial performance of the racks and containment offerings globally, with appropriate decision and resource allocation rights to enable success in a matrixed global environment. 
• Ownership of the product lifecycle management function for racks offerings globally, including hardware, software, and service, from new product development, through growth and sunset / divestiture. 
• Coordination with peers to drive innovation, development, and delivery of rack and containment offerings, including complimentary teammate specializations in Data Center Pods, Software & Controls, and Engineer-to-Order applications. 
• Enablement of global routes to market to facilitate commercial success, accentuating fit into Channel Partners’ business models 
• Competitive assessment in the relevant market space, including technology and market partnership opportunities 
• Identification of emerging or existing market opportunities rooted in technology applications, increasingly in settings facilitating cloud, colocation, and communications applications, globally. 
• Execution and guidance of primary and secondary market research, including direct interfacing with Customer decision-makers & value chain stakeholders, acquiring unfiltered Voice-of-Customer. 
• Comprehensive market requirements development for rack Offerings and component technologies across product, software, and services, specialized for prioritized vertical and application segments, rooted in value drivers that are business outcome-based. 
• Facilitation of tools development, content creation, and data management enabling Customers, Partners, and internal / external stakeholders as appropriate to grow Vertiv Data Center Solution revenue and profitability. 
• Achievement of positioning as a ‘trusted adviser’ to customers & channel partners relevant to the target segments. 
• Influence of and coordination with peer leaders and teams in different regions and functions globally, to provide the optimal Customer experience globally. 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable technology or business field is preferred.  MBA is beneficial. 
• 10+ years of related work experience is desired. Military service may be applicable. 
• Deep familiarity with deployment and management of solutions in cloud, colocation, and communications data center settings is paramount, including interaction with the Channel Partner ecosystem and solid understanding of the desired business outcomes. 
• Experience in related product or program management and/or direct enablement of sales through channel partners, with a record of success and a fixation for market share growth, is required. 
• Strong verbal & written communication is required, with the ability to engage internal and external audiences. 
• Effective tools enablement experience across Configure-Price-Quote, ERP, and other relevant tool suites is a plus 
• Global product / service management, including enablement of disparate stakeholders / routes to market, is a plus. 
• Familiarity with value-added partner channels including IT Distribution, Electrical Distribution, IT Solutions Providers, System Integrators, and Electrical & Mechanical Contractors is highly preferred. 
• Familiarity with technology verticals including cloud services, communication / telecom, collocation, and enterprise highly preferred. 
• Familiarity with server OEM & ODM market leaders, their technologies, capabilities, go-to-market routes, and strategies is highly preferred. 

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

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: 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.   

Work Authorization

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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