Product Manager - Outage Management Systems at Hitachi Energy

• Hitachi Energy is seeking a Product Manager - Outage Management Systems for its Houston, Texas location. This role is responsible for planning, developing and executing the product strategy and roadmap for Network Manager focused on managing power outages (planned and unplanned) and associated switching plans to energize and de-energize electrical grids in a safe manner. Implement and follow global product management best practices, apply sound business strategy approaches, and manage (i.e., market assessment, product competitiveness, direction of R&D investment, tracking of portfolio realization and impact) the associated product portfolio to meet requirements of global and local markets. Work closely with Product Development and Marketing & Sales to position the product and new initiatives and enable the rest of the organization to capture business. Additionally, work with the Professional Services Organization in deployment of new product functionality, and with the Customer Success Organization to understand and prioritize logged product defects and enhancement requests.

Your responsibilities

• Manages the Outage Management products within the Enterprise Software Solutions Product Group throughout its entire life cycle, with responsibility for product financial targets. Leads continuous business analysis of the existing portfolio and potential new portfolio items and contributes to decisions on product obsolescence and end-of life.
• Translates local market requirements and business unit strategy into global product portfolio. Positioning of the current and future product through market and customer segmentation, and anticipation of needs based on applicable trends. Contributes to the definition of new product line or product portfolio strategies.
• Analyses and tracks market, technology, competitor, and customer requirements related to the product business and determines competitive attributes, prioritization, and value proposition. Identifies needs, opportunities, risks and positioning against competition and feeds information to global team as input to decision making.
• Defines the business plan and approves the pricing model where applicable. Makes decisions and approves prioritization of product portfolio development activities.
• Engages regularly with customers. Manages challenging customer escalations and non-conformities.

Your background

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering required and a minimum of 10+ years’ experience in the Utility T&D space.
• Candidate must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Experience as a customer/user of Utility Control Systems is highly desirable
• Experience in a vendor environment either in Sales or Product Management is highly desirable
• Strong collaboration skills working in a team environment
• Strong presentation skills
• Strategic thinking
• Business mind