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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