Product Specialist
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This position reports to:
Factory Marketing Manager
Your role and responsibilities:
Are you ready to make a significant impact in the world of product management? In this exciting role, you'll collaborate closely with our Product Manager to enhance our offer portfolio and maximize return on investment. Each day, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring ABB fully understands market needs and translates them into innovative offer specifications and development activities. Showcase your expertise by driving various offer lifecycle activities, including development, launch, maintenance, pricing, and profitability. The work model for the role is hybrid in Pinetops, NC. You will be mainly accountable for:
1. Portfolio strategy: Support the global product manager to capture ideas and define new product technical requirements for product development by understanding customer needs and values, providing specific expertise, and knowledge of the existing portfolio.
2. Technical product support: Comprehensive understanding of portfolio and application to be the go-to technical support for sales and marketing teams, as well as customers.
3. Product launch: Support the entire product development process from requirement specification and ROI evaluation, to product launch. Create launch documents, train, and assist sales and marketing teams in the launch and selling of new products.
4. Customer development: Support customer development and assist in resolving customer issues - which will occasionally involve visiting customer sites.
5. Training: Deliver product and application training to internal teams and customers.
6. Analysis: Analyze and prepare documentation on market, product, and competitors to support sales, marketing, and customer development.
7. Go-to-Market strategy: Work with others to define the go-to-market strategy and required tools or resources to support sales growth.
8. Factory and market alignment: Collaborate with factory teams (i.e., manufacturing, quality, engineering, supply chain, and logistics) to ensure customer satisfaction and portfolio execution.
Qualifications for the role:
* Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in product management, engineering, or business experience, working as a product specialist, product manager, application engineer, business development specialist, or similar, with electrification products.
* Solid understanding of electrical power systems, and related applications and terminology with focus in utility and OEM markets.
* Demonstrated experience of marketing and sales strategy.
* A collaborative, solution-focused approach with strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
* A bachelor's degree in engineering, marketing or business management is preferred.
* Strong analytical and organizational skills to manage large amounts of competing priorities.
* Ability to synthesize complex ideas and concepts and communicate them in technical and commercial terms as well as in layman's terms for end users.
* Up to 30% travel required, including possibly some international travel.
* Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
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. #MyABBStory We look forward to receiving your application. #J-18808-Ljbffr