Product Management Manager

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. Write the next chapter of your ABB story.

Your role and responsibilities

• Defines the go-to-market model and segment strategy and aligns it with the operational/execution path. • Contributes to defining of the business strategy and translates it into the offering and solution portfolio strategy decides on possible partnering approaches and approved pricing models. • Oversees technology transfer, and trading model strategy definition to optimize the time to market, sales enablement, customer service levels, and product profitability. • Analyzes the content of the portfolio continuously, with a focus on new potential product lines. • Drives innovation in the team with a strong customer orientation, exploring opportunities along the full customer/user journey and considering all touch points. • Drives organizational maturity based on the ABB's global product management framework of processes and practices. • Ensures all staff (under scope) understand ABB's core values and group safety and integrity standards and act accordingly. • Implements and ensures compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes in their assigned area. • Ensures adherence to all internal and statutory regulations and policies pertaining to the teams in scope. • Ensures integrity and compliance with ABB values and ethics in all activities across all teams in scope. • Accountable for the health and safety of all employees and contractors for the teams in scope, and continuous improvement in Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) processes and integrity performance. • Establishes and maintains succession planning for key positions within the Product Management organization(s). • Drives excellence in Product Management teams by promoting continuous development of people and processes.

Qualifications for the role

• Electrical engineering degree or electronic college degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Variable Speed Drives (VSD).
• Good knowledge of the Canadian VSD/Automation market.
• Good factory automation and electrification best practice knowledge.
• Bilingualism, written and spoken (French and English). French is required. English is also required to communicate with customers outside Quebec on a regular basis.
• High customer focus.
• Drives team performance and collaboration, demonstrates high level of initiative, problem solving, information seeking and eager to learn.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of emerging technologies such as AI, cloud computing, and data analytics, and their application to optimize processes, increase efficiency, and improve customer experiences.
• Good sense of urgency and ownership.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform an asset.
• People management skills.
• Business travel 25% of the time (Canada, USA, Europe).

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

ABB Drive Products is a technology leader serving industries, infrastructure and machine builders with world-class drives and softstarters. With our products, global scale and local presence, we help our customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the ninth consecutive year, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine. Consistently ranked as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Best Employers, Canada's Best Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and a long-time recipient of the Women in Governance Parity Certification, ABB's culture and commitment is to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces.