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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Onsite
We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Organizational Leadership & People Development
Lead the India Data & AI organization as its most senior leader, setting the tone for culture, performance expectations, and professional standards
Manage a team of managers and technical leads, providing strategic direction, coaching, and accountability with a focus on developing the next layer of leadership
Own the India organization's talent agenda: workforce planning, hiring strategy, succession planning, and creating clear growth pathways for technical and managerial talent at every level
Build and sustain a high-performance culture that is collaborative, curious, accountable, and invested in continuous learning
Serve as the primary liaison between the India organization and nVent's Data & AI leadership, ensuring consistent communication, aligned priorities, and effective ways of working across geographies
Strategy & Portfolio Governance
Partner with global Data & AI leadership to translate nVent's enterprise data and AI strategy into a roadmap that is realistic, well-sequenced, and resourced appropriately
Own portfolio-level accountability across all India workstreams, monitoring delivery health, surfacing risks early, and making decisions about prioritization and resource allocation that span functional boundaries
Contribute to enterprise planning cycles by representing India's capacity, capability, and delivery perspective in roadmap and investment discussions
Drive the India team's operating model evolution while the organization scales. Address delivery practices and governance. Improve ways of working with the distributed team to support sustained growth.
AI Portfolio Ownership
Provide strategic direction and organizational accountability for nVent's AI solution development
Ensure the AI delivery organization operates with velocity, governance alignment, and the engineering field required to move solutions reliably from use case to production
Partner with collaborators to align the AI delivery portfolio with enterprise priorities, governance requirements, and expectations of business value
Champion responsible AI practices, ensuring solutions are built with appropriate transparency, testing, and risk management
Analytics Leadership & Global Delivery
Lead the India Analytics function, owning delivery, quality, talent development, and organizational effectiveness across reporting, self-service enablement, and advanced analytics
Partner with the Analytics leadership to build and complete our global analytics strategy, with shared standards, aligned priorities, and one consistent delivery model across geographies
Co-own the global analytics roadmap and delivery model, resourcing, platform decisions, and extending global delivery
Align analytics delivery to modern data platforms and certified data
Data Governance Engagement
Partner with enterprise Data Governance and Privacy leadership to ensure delivery activity is aligned to nVent's governance framework and regulatory obligations
Promote governance-by-design culture making quality, transparency, and compliance a shared expectation
Executive Collaborator Engagement
Represent the India Data & AI organization to global technology and business leadership, communicating delivery status, strategic priorities, and organizational health with clarity and credibility
Build trusted relationships with executive and functional leadership
Participate in enterprise-level governance forums, investment reviews, and program steering committees
Shape how nVent's global Data & AI leadership team understands, engages, and invests in the India organization
Requirements:
15+ years of progressive experience in data, analytics, and/or AI fields, with a clear arc of growing leadership scope and organizational accountability
7+ years in senior people leadership roles with demonstrated experience leading managers and senior technical leads
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related technical field
Minimum of 8 years of experience in data management, analytics, or business intelligence
Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing, multi-disciplinary data and AI organizations in a global enterprise environment
Experience in a distributed, multi-geography model, with accountability to senior leadership in a separate location; experience as the most senior technology leader on a site is preferred
Demonstrated success owning a portfolio of concurrent, delivery programs across multiple fields while maintaining organizational health and strategic alignment
Experience contributing to enterprise data and AI strategy, including roadmap development, investment prioritization, and organizational design
Experience in a B2B manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex enterprise environment is a plus
Exceptional executive communication and influence skills to represent organizational priorities, risks, and needs credibly and persuasively to senior US-based leadership, business partners, and board-level audiences
WE HAVE:
A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day
nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.
Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com.
Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work
We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide
Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money
Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:
Innovative & adaptable
Dedicated to absolute integrity
Focused on the customer first
Respectful and team oriented
Optimistic and energizing
Accountable for performance
Benefits to support the lives of our employees
At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.