Product Manager - Air-Cooled Chillers

About the role

JCI is looking for a Product Manager for air-cooled chillers in EMEA. The role owns the product direction and commercial performance of applied air-cooled chillers used in mission-critical and data-centre applications, working with customers, Sales, Engineering and Manufacturing to bring new products to market and grow a European chiller organisation. It is an individual-contributor role reporting to the product leadership organisation, based in Dublin.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle and business performance of assigned chiller product lines, including revenue, margin, cost, quality and competitiveness.
• Build relationships with regional business leaders, Sales, channel partners and customers to gather customer insight.
• Develop product roadmaps and business plans, and lead product contributions to new product introductions with the Dublin engineering team.
• Translate customer needs into product priorities across mechanical, electrical, heat transfer, fluid dynamics and power disciplines.
• Analyse product performance, cost, pricing and competitive position, and support pricing strategies and value propositions.
• In the first six months, learn the product portfolio and customer requirements, build working relationships with the Dublin engineering team and Sales, and start engaging directly with customers.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, marketing or a related discipline; an engineering degree is strongly preferred.
• At least five years of relevant experience, including about three years in product, service or offering management.
• Experience with complex, engineered products in HVAC, chillers, heavy machinery or similar manufacturing environments.
• Experience collaborating with and directing engineering teams, and communicating product performance, cost and pricing to Sales and business leaders.
• Experience analysing large volumes of data and producing decision-ready reports and recommendations.
• Preferred: product-management, applications engineering, technical sales or product-marketing experience in commercial HVAC, knowledge of data centre products, and understanding of capital expenditure and ROI, IRR and NPV.

Working arrangements

• Hybrid: a minimum of about three days per week in the office.
• Moderate domestic and international travel, occasionally for one or two weeks.