Hubbell Inc

Vice President Product Management - Latin America & Sensor Products

Hubbell Inc • $150K — $200K *
Saint Louis, MO 63129In-Person
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
1 week ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of commercial leadership experience
  • Strong operational and commercial acumen
  • Experience in team leadership within a matrixed organization
  • Master's degree or MBA preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a strategy for the Sensor Platform and Latin America portfolio
  • Identify emerging market needs and trends
  • Engage with thought leaders to leverage industry insights
  • Establish BU metrics aligned with corporate objectives
  • Drive mergers and acquisitions to support growth
  • Foster collaboration with cross-functional leaders
  • Utilize customer insights for product innovation

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Support for leadership succession planning
  • Participation in an inclusive workplace culture
  • Exposure to diverse teams and projects
Full Job Description
Job Overview

The Vice President Sensor and Latin America Portfolio is responsible for providing strategic leadership, technology vision, and innovative process execution across the sensor platform for water, gas and electric verticals within Communications, Sensors, Software and Services business and Latin America Portfolio at Hubbell Utility Solutions. The individual must understand the technology set, needs of utilities and be commercially driven and be familiarized with service provider technology trends. He or she will develop a mid-to-long-term growth road map for the BU and in line with the overall corporate strategy.

The new leader will be tasked with enabling internal collaboration, external partnerships and a fair amount of mergers/acquisitions. This leader will also have a business and strategic mindset to collaborate with other members of the senior management team to drive greater shareholder value.

The position will be based in St. Louis, MO or Solon, OH. Travel is expected in Latin America.

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A Day In The Life

  • Develops and contributes to a comprehensive Sensor Platform and Latin America strategy, consistent with their expertise
  • Identifies emerging needs in current and adjacent markets
  • Develops and maintains expertise in potentially feasible growth markets
  • Has keen awareness of product life cycle of current product portfolio
  • Engages in conversations with thought leaders in core and adjacent industries
  • Seeks input from functional partners and executive team to understand all business issues and demands
  • Identifies and develops suitable M & A targets
  • Considers multiple scenarios to best prepare the business for potential changes and possibilities
  • Socializes proposed strategic direction with diverse stakeholders, explaining a compelling "why" and needed actions behind the vision/strategy
  • Establishes meaningful BU metrics and goals that are aligned with enterprise priorities
  • Anticipates the obstacles that may impact the execution of the strategy
  • Develops strategies to expand life cycle of current products
  • Demonstrates appreciation for the value and expertise others provide
  • Executes in partnership with Functional Leaders
  • Considers how decisions may impact others within the matrix
  • Makes decisions based on a solid understanding of finances (e.g. P&L), competitors' market position and pricing/industry trends, and customer understanding
  • Advocates for strategic innovations across the matrix
  • Uses customer insights to drive future product innovations and developments
  • Helps teams to set up experiments that may fail fast or win big
  • Provides a safe environment for experimentation, including risk-taking and failure
  • Identifies opportunities to improve execution and drive operational excellence
  • Seeks out diversity of thought, experience and background to drive creative problem solving and higher performance


What will help you thrive in this role?

  • Speaks with enthusiasm and clarity about the business goals and vision and helps team members understand how they fit in.
  • Keeps teams "in the know" of trends and changes in operations and strategy
  • Tailors communication according to the stakeholder care-abouts and situation
  • Speaks with confidence, humility, and composure in the face of ambiguity
  • Invites open discussion of a variety of perspectives
  • Builds relationships and networks across the Hubbell enterprise to ensure alignment and broaden understanding
  • Aligns early and often (e.g. regular cadence) with key stakeholders and Functional Partners on priorities, common objectives, and success metrics
  • Has transparent conversations when conflicts arise, assuming positive intent and seeking compromise towards the best decision for Hubbell
  • Translates corporate direction into language and actions that connect with employees at all levels.
  • Consistently refines their knowledge of the market, trends, opportunities, and threats
  • Builds and nurtures strong relationships with customer executives
  • Meets with customers to represent the brand and support the sales team
  • Advocates for addressing the customer's needs with matrixed business partners
  • Evaluates opportunity cost of client requests
  • Builds and maintains a presence in the market
  • Provides timely, honest, specific, and supportive feedback to team members
  • Recognizes team members' role in executing the strategy through comprehensive, actionable goals
  • Delegates to functional experts with confidence
  • Enables leaders in their business unit to coach and nurture talent
  • Establishes a clear understanding of the talent needed to execute on Hubbell's future strategic direction
  • Provides strategic input for HR recruitment processes
  • Supports processes to build HR's leader succession plan
  • Fosters an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture in which all people are heard, respected, and treated fairly

Preferred:
  • 10+ years of Commercial Leadership Experience
  • Strong commercial and operational acumen
  • Team leadership of a matrixed organization and a high level of collaboration

Eductation:

BS in Electrical Engieering with a Masters degree or an MBA

About Hubbell Inc

Hubbell Incorporated is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells electrical and electronic products for non-residential and residential construction, industrial, and utility applications. Hubbell was founded by Harvey Hubbell as a proprietorship in 1888, and was incorporated in Connecticut in 1905. It is ranked 602 by Fortune. The company’s reporting segments consist of the electrical segment and the Power segment. Hubbell’s manufacturing facilities are located in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the People's Republic of China, Italy, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Australia and maintains sales offices in Singapore, China, India, Mexico, South Korea, and countries in the Middle East. Hubbell was previously headquartered in Orange, Connecticut, and has now moved its headquarters to Shelton, Connecticut. Hubbell Inc. assisted Allied efforts during World War II by manufacturing military vehicle electrical circuits, battery-charging systems for M4 Sherman tanks, power jacks for test meters, vacuum tube sockets for radio communications, and a line of electrical and electronic connectors for aircraft. Hubbell Inc. is in List of S&P 400 companies having stocks that are included in the S&P 400 stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Learn more about Hubbell Inc
Size
18,300 employees
Market Cap
$12.6 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$351.2 million
Founded
1888
5 Year Trend
+3.7%
Revenue
$4.1 billion
NASDAQ
HUBB
* Ladders Estimates

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