Sr Product Manager

Ecolab is looking for Digital Product Managerwho will be responsible for building strategic roadmap digital control equipment and will lead ongoing product lifecycle governance. The individual in this role is key to promoting enterprise digital strategy. Product Manager will deliver the best outcome-based solutions to customers through digital programs and products while maintaining high focus on P&L and driving pricing to profitability. Product Manager facilitates the value prop, data & analytics, and technical readiness and connects & translates between business and technical teams.

Product Manager will interact with a variety of stakeholders including but not limited to: external customers, technical & engineering teams, user designer team, software engineers, marketing teams and business partners. The role will be aligned within the Ecolab Digital organization.

This role is based out of: Naperville.

What's in it For You:

• The opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best

What You Will Do:

• Drive the product strategy to educate, inform and excite prospects, customers, partners and field
• Manage product lifecycle; launch through EOS/EOL
• Drive product roadmap development and communication incorporating strategic and market sourced requirements
• Drive understanding of buying centers, personas, buyer journey and corresponding asset mapping for demand gen and conversion
• Drive and facilitate requirements process, prioritization
• Drive product roadmap development and communication
• Ensure optimal feature, request for enhancement/bug backlog prioritization
• Assess build vs. buy and integration requirements
• Define target markets; identify market problems and informs product positioning
• Interact with customers; assist on the 'digital sale'
• Identify opportunities for business-led delivery and provide consultative support in understanding tradeoffs and developing consensus. Field and customer facing product evangelism
• Collaborate with delivery teams to deliver prioritized features, functional support, financial management, and release management
• Leverage ideas, suggestions, and innovations in ways that make them leverageable across all business units
• Negotiate statement of work; manages relationships, and monitors vendor performance against service agreements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10 years professional experience OR MBA with 5 years of professional experience
• Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools
• Experience leading IIoT, PLC, or control platforms through all phases of the lifecycle and demonstration of executing a successful strategy
• No immigration sponsorship available for this position

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in digital product management setting
• Engineering/computer science experience

• Experience leading software development of embedded software equipment
• Previous business analysis experience
• Project management skills
• Experience in the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer problems into meaningful solution
• Ability to work independently and navigate matrix organizations
• Ability to communicate effectively to motivate, inspire and impact others to achieve business results
• Well-developed and proven leadership, strategic thinking, & business acumen

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