Head of Local Product ManagementAt 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.
This position reports to

Business Manager - Portfolio

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will lead the Local Product Management team, reporting to the Local business line manager and collaborating with the Global Product and Portfolio Manager (GPM) to optimize the offering portfolio and maximize return on investment. You will ensure that ABB fully understands market requirements within a specific area and successfully translates them into offering specifications and development initiatives. You will be responsible for driving the long-term profitable growth of the offering. Additionally, you will support business outcomes by managing all aspects of the offering lifecycle, including development, launch, maintenance, pricing, and profitability.The work model for the role is: #LI-HybridThis role is contributing to the Distribution Solutions Division within the Electrification Area in Dalmine. You will be mainly accountable for:• Understanding and analyzing market trends, customer requirements, competitor landscape, and product positioning.• Providing sales support, including customer meetings and trade shows on request.• Preparing product training materials and delivering trainings.• Supporting the GPM on the market communication strategies, including product launches.• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., R&D, Engineering, Sales, Supply Chain, Quality) to ensure product feasibility and customer satisfaction and to maximize competitiveness and profitability.• Managing the technical specification of the products and supporting the business case preparation for offering developments, maintenance and cost reductions. • Contributing actively with the lifecycle management process, proposing offering obsolescence and end-of-life to ensure that current and future requirements are met and to maximize the profitability. • Ensuring compliance with internal standards, ABB values, and sustainability strategies in all activities.• Managing the budget and supervising the product roadmap development for assigned projects.• Providing inputs to prioritize new offering development projects within the roadmap.• Acting as local product management representative for assigned projects during gate meetings. • Proposing and evaluating new product developments or enhancements based on market needs and aligning with portfolio strategies.

Qualifications for the role

You have experience in Product Management, with a proven track record of delivering successful offerings and driving profitability You excel in Portfolio and Product Lifecycle Management, ensuring profitable growth, alignment with business objectives, and effective product development from inception to obsolescence. You have a strong command of Market Intelligence and Business Strategy, analyzing trends, customer needs, and competitors to drive informed decisions and strategic actions. You demonstrate expertise in Process Optimization and Cross-functional Collaboration, improving efficiency and coordinating with teams like R&D, Supply Chain, and Sales to ensure customer satisfaction. You are skilled in Compliance, Pricing, and Financial Performance, managing budgets, setting performance targets, ensuring adherence to regulations, and maximizing product competitiveness. You possess Strategic Thinking, Resource Management, and Leadership Skills, enabling you to guide teams effectively, allocate resources efficiently, and drive organizational success You are at ease communicating in Italian and English, both written and spoken

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStoryFor further info: Davide Lippiello, Talent Partner