Product Manager - Connectivity and Accessories

Working as the Product Manager for Connectivity and Accessories in our New Berlin, WI location, you will be a key member of the Motion Drive Products product management team. In this role, you will have local U.S. responsibility for the connectivity and accessory portfolio supporting ABB drive products, including fieldbus adapters, keypad platforms, drive configuration software tools, and related accessories.

You will be accountable for driving profitable growth of the connectivity and accessories offering across Industrial, HVAC, Water and OEM markets. This includes managing the portfolio through all phases of the product lifecycle, aligning local market needs with global Product Group strategy, and ensuring the offering supports ABB’s broader drive product growth objectives.

This role will require close collaboration with global product management, sales, technical support, product marketing, channel partners, OEM business development, and other cross-functional stakeholders. A key focus will be ensuring that ABB’s connectivity and software tool offering is competitive, easy to position, and aligned with customer expectations for communication, commissioning, configuration, and usability.

This role reports to the Manager of Product Management for Industrial and Machinery and works closely with the Product Market Managers for Industrial, HVAC, Water and OEM products.

The work model for the role is: Hybrid {#LI-Hybrid}

This role is contributing to the Motion Drive Products Division in the US.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Own the technical specification for regional product and lead regional product life cycle management

• Run product development process stage gates for regional products, own local product creation of global products and support production ramp-up

• Define new product plans, sets technical, price, cost, and application targets. Contributes to development of new portfolios by leading customer need and value analysis, prioritizes new product development project and coordinating cross functional teams.

• Work with Global Product Management, local Product Market Manager and marketing to define the market communication strategy, including product launch planning and implementation.

Our team dynamics
You will join a talented and high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of work experience in a complex global business environment, Associate degree and 7 years of work experience in a complex global business environment or High School diploma with 12 years of experience required

• Progressive experience in product management and customer relationship management required

• Proven track record of cross functional collaboration, excellent stakeholder engagement and strategic mindset and passion to drive business results required

• Travel up to 10%

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English required

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their- sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age,  race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

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ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan. 

• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus

• Vision benefit

• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)

• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)

• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums

• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid

• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid.  Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.

• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance

• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks

• Employee Assistance Program

• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption

• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions 

• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.