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Schneider Electric USA, Inc

Advanced Product Owner, Busway (Finance)

Schneider Electric has an opportunity for an Advanced Product Owner in our Nashville TN, Raleigh NC, or Monterrey MX location. This role is responsible for driving product strategy, development, and lifecycle management of the Busway portfolio in North America.

As Busway Advanced Product Owner, you will be responsible for the NEMA/UL Busway offer through the entire product lifecycle providing a clear roadmap for product maintenance and development.

In this job, you will analyze the business, investigate opportunities, and prioritize the investment of R&D resources to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer needs and align with business objectives. Product Owners are the keystone representing the customer, business, technical, and application sides of their offer to the cross functional teams which are responsible for the successful development, launch, and lifecycle of the product.

What do you get to do in this position?

• Develop and adapt the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.

• Drive and support our Sustainability metrics and efforts for improvement.

• Structure the product R&D process including setting up new squads, capturing business cases, and leading specific development projects for excellent execution.

• Define, scope, and prioritize features and activities based on business and customer impact. Own the product development backlog.

• Optimize the offer with clear scope of development for the cross functional teams. Capturing benefits, value propositions, and customer use cases to derive sales and financial benefits as well as cost of development.

• Review pricing and profitability to maximize returns and identify areas of improvement, use product and customer knowledge to pinpoint areas for cost optimization.

• Seek out the Voice of Sales, Customers, Services, and other stakeholders to carry back to development teams working to identify beneficial offer changes.

• Monitor & analyze trends within the industry, competition, and governing bodies to feed and prioritize the roadmap.

• Develop business cases to summarize effort/costs vs proposed business and customer value for offer adaptations to drive prioritization and resource allocation.

• Work with finance and supply chain teams to properly forecast product to ensure proper material / labor supply.

• Promote the offer by developing and executing launch, announcement, and marketing plans in collaboration with our marketing and sales team.

• Be the subject matter expert and evangelize the offer, customer applications/needs, roadmap, and priorities to build awareness and secure support from squads and stakeholders.

• Communicate and interact with senior leaders in Schneider Electric, product sponsors, stakeholders, and customers to understand the current and changing needs.

• Manage roadmaps & lifecycle plans - develop new product and features, determine integrations and transitions, obsolescence, and withdrawal.

Education and Experience

• BS in engineering, mechanical and/or electrical engineering OR

• Candidates with BS in business, marketing, or finance degrees with strong technical backgrounds

• 5+ years prior technical experience, preferred in the electric distribution industry

• 5+ years experience and knowledge in product management, product development, technical marketing/sales

• Strong knowledge in key market segments like Data Center and understanding of industry trends in energy management and power distribution

• Interest in technical, business, and marketing principles with a desire to advance studies in those fields (MBA, MS)

• Experience with go-to-market strategy (channel, contractors, specifier, end users)

Competencies

• Very strong in entrepreneurship spirit with proactive behavior

• Excellent business acumen to understand value generation and payback

• Leadership of cross-functional teams with ability to influence and convince executive members

• Strong in data analysis using excel and/or other data sources

• Clear communication and presentations skills internal and external, represent the customer view internally at all levels and present offer to customers in presentations and at Trade Shows

• Curiosity to create something new, innovate, and develop

• Problem solving, collaborative and negotiating skills that accomplish best, justifiable outcomes

• Manage multiple projects/activities simultaneously

• Ability to understand technical concepts/ applications around power distribution, codes & standards, electrical systems

• Understand marketing principles - product positioning, pricing strategies, channel management, value propositions and competitive comparisons, market trends

• Understand business principles - profitability, margin, cost analysis

• Ability to create concise product offer specifications, sales tools & business cases

• Agile mindset for accomplishing objectives while managing resources within a budget

• Ability to travel up to 20% of time

Education and Experience

• BS in engineering, mechanical and/or electrical engineering OR

• Candidates with BS in business, marketing, or finance degrees with strong technical backgrounds

• 5+ years prior technical experience, preferred in the electric distribution industry

• 5+ years experience and knowledge in product management, product development, technical marketing/sales

• Strong knowledge in key market segments like Data Center and understanding of industry trends in energy management and power distribution

• Interest in technical, business, and marketing principles with a desire to advance studies in those fields (MBA, MS)

• Experience with go-to-market strategy (channel, contractors, specifier, end users)

Competencies

• Very strong in entrepreneurship spirit with proactive behavior

• Excellent business acumen to understand value generation and payback

• Leadership of cross-functional teams with ability to influence and convince executive members

• Strong in data analysis using excel and/or other data sources

• Clear communication and presentations skills internal and external, represent the customer view internally at all levels and present offer to customers in presentations and at Trade Shows

• Curiosity to create something new, innovate, and develop

• Problem solving, collaborative and negotiating skills that accomplish best, justifiable outcomes

• Manage multiple projects/activities simultaneously

• Ability to understand technical concepts/ applications around power distribution, codes & standards, electrical systems

• Understand marketing principles - product positioning, pricing strategies, channel management, value propositions and competitive comparisons, market trends

• Understand business principles - profitability, margin, cost analysis

• Ability to create concise product offer specifications, sales tools & business cases

• Agile mindset for accomplishing objectives while managing resources within a budget

• Ability to travel up to 20% of time

Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave,401(k)+ match, and more. Click here to find out more about working with us: http://se.com/us/careers.

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You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and 'inclusion' is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

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Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.Schneider Electric has an opportunity for an Advanced Product Owner in our Nashville TN, Raleigh NC, or Monterrey MX location. This role is responsible for driving product strategy, development, and lifecycle management of the Busway portfolio in North America.