Global Product Group Manager Motion
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This position reports to
Division CTO
Your role and responsibilities
As the Global Product Group Manager for Motion at B&R, you are responsible for driving the long-term profitable growth, innovation, and ambitious strategic direction of our Motion business. You will manage the global Motion product portfolio consisting of high-performance Servo drives, Inverters, Motors, and a variety of Software solutions. Main stakeholders for our Global Product Group Manager will include both external and internal senior leaders within R&D, Operations, Sales, and more. You will be mainly accountable for:
1. Portfolio Leadership: Direct the Motion Product Group’s portfolio strategy to achieve and sustain revenue targets, overseeing product development, market positioning, and pricing to meet growth targets.
2. Global Strategy Execution: Lead end-to-end business management, from innovation and product adaptation to operational performance, ensuring alignment with ABB’s culture and standards.
3. Product Development: Lead multidisciplinary research and product development teams to ensure clear prioritization between stable roadmap execution and agile reactions to changed market and customer requirements.
4. External Partnerships & Sales Enablement: Establish international partnerships with key suppliers and stakeholders, and collaborate with global sales to drive planning, pricing, and contract management.
5. Team Leadership & Growth: Build and inspire an interdisciplinary team consisting of over 100 Hardware and Software Developers, Product Managers, and Quality Engineers, promoting an inclusive culture that encourages high performance, agility, and continuous development.
Qualifications for the role
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Management, or similar (MBA or equivalent is a plus).
* 10 to 15 years of experience as a Senior Business Leader.
* Proven track record of managing large Product Development and Product Management Teams (50+ FTE) in the area of Motion drives or Machine Automation businesses.
* Both technical and commercial experience.
* Work exposure to European, Chinese, and US machine automation markets.
* You enjoy working in a very autonomous environment with a high level of accountability to build up and execute business strategy with a highly skilled multicultural and global team within Hardware and Software.
* You think outside the box to foster innovation and establish effective dialogues in a multicultural environment with peers, colleagues, and external partners.
* You have strong values where your passion lies in motivating and leading employees.
* You have strong, well-developed communication skills in English (German is a plus).
* You have availability to travel 50% of the time to our HQ in Eggelsberg (Austria).
More about us
At B&R, you can expect an exciting and challenging job with an individually tailored introductory training. You will work in agile teams where you have the opportunity to actively contribute and drive ideas forward. Our flexible work models (e.g., flextime, hybrid) offer you an optimal work-life balance. Our unique B&R spirit is characterized by appreciation, communication at eye level, and an informal work culture. We offer customized training and development programs as well as exciting development opportunities within the company. Numerous other B&R benefits (Parental Leave Program, Employee Assistance Program, and many more) round off our offer. ABB's Machine Automation Division, also known to our customers as B&R, is an innovative automation company headquartered in Austria with additional offices around the world. B&R became part of ABB's Robotics & Discrete Automation division in 2017 and, together with the ABB Robotics division, employs more than 11,000 people at over 100 locations in more than 53 countries. As a leading global provider of automation solutions, B&R develops, produces, and sells industrial electronics, software solutions, and mechatronic solutions as well as technologies for machine and factory automation. Since 2020, B&R's automation portfolio has also included Codian brand delta robots. With its innovative solutions, B&R sets new standards and consistently exceeds its customers' expectations. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.
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