Global Product Manager

At Nidec Drives our values and behaviours are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success.

We are looking for exceptional people who turn ambitions into actions, and we believe everyone has the potential to succeed.

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Nidec will offer a host of opportunities for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges, and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity.

In addition, we will offer you a benefits package that aims to meet your individual needs.

Here's some of what we offer:

- 25 days Annual Leave, increasing with service. (Plus, Public Holidays)
- Progression & Development opportunities.
- The opportunity to work from home one day per week.
- Holiday sell back program.
- Pension Scheme, 5% matched.
- Additional day off for your birthday, once you have been with us for 1 year.
- EV and cycle-to-work schemes.
- Voucher programs, with a wide offer of discounts on everything from cinema and theatre tickets to goods and services.
- Life Insurance
- A funded volunteer day per year, encouraging you to support the communities and charities that matter to you.
- Employee assistance program

Role Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join Nidec Drives as a Global Product Manager.

The Global Product Manager is responsible for leading strategic growth and lifecycle management across product portfolios, including product strategy formulation, market analysis, pricing management, and profitability optimization.

This role involves coordinating global product launches, driving channel development, and engaging deeply with customers to deliver tailored value propositions. Acting as a central liaison among R&D, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and business development teams.

This role is pivotal to ensure clear cross-functional collaboration, comprehensive training, continuous performance monitoring, and effective stakeholder management. Fostering a collaborative and high-performing product management team.

Key Job Responsibilities:

- Develop and implement product strategic growth plans and comprehensive product roadmaps.
- Manage lifecycle transitions including end-of-life and last-time-buy analyses.
- The product manager will be at the centre of new product development by understanding customer, regional and segment needs
- To turn market needs into clear specifications for R&D
- Oversee new product development (NPD)
- To enforce intensive continuous collaboration with segment and regional leaders.
- Develop growth strategies with the regional and segment leaders on each product.
- Conduct detailed market analyses, competitive benchmarking, and continuous monitoring of competitor activities and pricing strategies.
- Identify product feature gaps and compliance requirements.
- Lead product cost improvement initiatives and conduct gross profit analyses.
- Develop and manage regional price lists, discount strategies, and competitive average selling price (ASP) analyses.
- Coordinate global product launches with regional sales and marketing teams.
- Develop comprehensive sales toolkits to improve sales effectiveness along with the marketing communications team.
- Facilitate regional promotional campaigns and local product introductions.
- Proactively support regional channel development and geographical market expansion with regional leaders.
- Develop segment-specific value propositions and highlight application success stories.
- Facilitate collaboration among R&D, segment leaders, regional teams, and manufacturing.
- Monitor product performance, sales metrics, and customer satisfaction to inform strategic decisions.
- Collaborate with Global Product Training teams to ensure robust training materials are available.

Travel Requirements:

Frequent international travel

Qualifications & Experience Requirements:

- Bachelor's or master's degree in business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field (MBA preferred)
- Extensive experience in Variable Speed Drives, or manufacturing automation in the capacity of sales and/or marketing.
- Strong financial acumen & profitability management experience
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Strong leadership capabilities, managing cross-functional teams and complex projects.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.

Nidec Drives: What we do?

We take care of the world's motion. We provide AC, DC, and Servo drive solutions for everything from heavy industry to theatre production, end-to-end production lines, and everything in between.

Our precision-engineered drives are designed to optimise performance and productivity, creating essential motion for a more efficient future. As part of Nidec, the world's largest electric motor company, we make the world spin smarter and faster.

As a global business, operating for over 50 years, we have grown into a thriving business, now operating in over 30 countries. We pride ourselves on our people and we look for those who are continuously striving for excellence with the ambition to achieve success.

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