Job Information
Copeland Senior Product Manager HVAC in Italy
Job description:
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager for our electronics business in the HVAC market. HVAC requires reliable products and solutions that minimize costs and maximize the comfort and efficiency or work and living spaces. In this role, you will be responsible for driving this portfolio to achieve the sales and profit plan. You are the expert in the user, the jobs that they are trying to accomplish, and the problems they face. Reporting to the Director of Product Management, the Senior Product Manager works with sales, solutions, service delivery, marketing, and engineering teams to build a growing network of happy, referenceable customers for our solutions.
Responsibilities:
Vision, strategy, and portfolio management
Owns product strategy for HVAC electronics.
Owns product roadmap for dedicated HVAC electronics.
Owns the product portfolio and life-cycle management.
Ensures, in collaboration with the Product management team, that Electronics and software portfolio roadmaps are aligned.
Collaborates with other verticals to align roadmaps.
Supports product discovery and experimentation for HVAC applications.
Develop insights about the user interaction and technical functionalities with the product and eco-system.
Develop skills to understand deep knowledge of the data that enables us to understand product and user behavior, measure progress, prove if ideas work and inform decisions
Identifies riskiest assumptions and key questions we must get answered and means for tracking those within the product team.
Support development and governance of running experiments to get answers to key questions and address riskiest assumptions.
Lead and support key industry initiatives supporting product and technology development.
Works with key industry functions and committees as SME to drive Copeland visibility and influence with Copeland objectives in mind.
Product requirements and prioritization of development work
Ensure new product or feature development is aligned with business strategy and goals.
Overall responsible for signing off product and detailed feature requirements.
Develops business cases for new products and product enhancements working with cross-functional team to refine product concept, evaluate its feasibility and communicate to key stakeholders.
Prioritizes the work across the portfolio (new customer features, products improvements, bugs, maintenance, and cost optimization)
Make balanced judgments when faced with costs, timing, and resource tradeoffs.
Consulted in technical and business decisions. Understands what is being built and the tradeoffs.
Know the shared dependencies and seeks to minimize them through decoupling.
Know the impact of decisions on the ecosystem performance.
Customer acquisition and go-to-market support.
Oversees the framework and requirements for product training of service/sales and other key go-to-market functions.
Represents product in engagements with, OEMs, integrators and third parties and can speak to technical specifications.
Oversees the development of product leaflets and marketing material.
Deep knowledge of the industry
Understand relevant market and category trends to include disruptive technologies and legislative, agency and regulatory impacts.
Monitor competitive activity and assess competitive product and technology strategies.
Conducts market environment research as needed.
Required qualifications and experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Mechatronics Engineering or a related field
+3 years Product management experience preferably in the HVACR industry
Expertise and knowledge of electronic controls
Expertise and knowledge of HVACR components, applications and systems is required
Customer-oriented, interpersonal and execution skills
Fluent in Italian and in English, 3 rd language is a plus
Korn Ferry Competencies:
Instills Trust
Drives Results
Customer Focus
Collaboration
Customer Focus
Decision Quality
Drives Vision & Purpose
Cultivates Innovation
Business Insight
Collaboration