Product Management and Marketing Leader

At Trane TechnologiesTM and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what's possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

Life Science Solutions is seeking an experienced leader to serve as our Product Management & Marketing Leader for the business. Reporting to the President of Life Science Solutions, the Product Management and Marketing Leader will manage the business portfolio, provide thought leadership, and play a critical role in developing and executing the business and go to market strategy to enable breakthrough growth.

The position is responsible for defining the product and go to market strategy including developing plans for investment in NPD & innovation, identifying acquisition/partnership opportunities, developing growth strategy in current and adjacent markets, and developing and executing channel and activation strategies to serve customers globally. The successful candidate will be a world-class leader with a proven record of creatively and profitably growing global product lines and segments, using a balance of agility and disciplined portfolio management processes and marketing strategies. This individual will provide vision to the business by building capability in innovative marketing, channel marketing, customer experience and demand generation. This position requires excellent cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills and will partner closely with the marketing shared services, product management excellence teams along with the Life Science Solutions sales team.

It is preferred that the individual who takes this role be located in Noblesville, IN. In this role you will be required to work a 4-day on site work arrangement.

What's in it for you:

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient environments, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, sustainability is not just how we do business-it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world.

Thrive at work and at home:

• Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives - WE DARE TO CARE!
• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution.
• Paid time off, including in support of volunteer and parental leave needs.
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.
• Learn more about our benefits here!

What you will do:

• Collaborate across Life Sciences business and broader Trane Technologies organization to create and gain coalescence behind a customer-oriented, robust and actionable strategic growth plan, global business strategy, and product roadmap.
• Drive profitable growth by optimizing balance between deep customer and market understanding with the technological capability and competitive advantage our business has to offer now, and in the future.
• Develop and execute product / offer growth strategy for Life Science Solutions including clearly defining winning value propositions in target market segments and identifying new segments to help drive profitable growth via hardware/software/services multigenerational offer plans, and timely commercialization and distribution strategy.
• Develop and present new business opportunities across multiple time horizons including strategic technology roadmap, overall partner/business strategy, investments/payback, and mobilizing appropriate resource commitments.
• Work closely with Trane Technologies Product Management Excellence and Marketing COEs to fully leverage capability for innovation, product management, marketing, and customer insights to inform and accelerate growth in Life Science Solutions.
• Manage a direct team of portfolio, pricing, product support, and marketing leaders with responsibility for product line strategy, driving profitable growth through pricing, product management, and marketing excellence.
• Solutions Marketing Strategy and Activation-Lead in developing the marketing strategy for product portfolios including equipment, digital, and services. This includes brand stewardship, digital marketing, and commercialization of new offerings.
• Lead the team through the product line review process to ensure that the gaps in the portfolio are well understood, develop plans to address those gaps and ensure all categories and products are being managed throughout the product lifecycle.
• Lead LSS executive PGT to partner closely with the ISC and Engineering teams to ensure coaching of PGTs to focus on key strategies to wholistically drive profitable growth and market share gains.
• Provide leadership, talent development and coaching to a team of product management & marketing professionals.

What you will bring:

Professional Requirements

• 12+ years product management and/or marketing experience in technical, complex environment, a track record of success in relevant industrial markets is strongly preferred
• Strong overall business acumen, solid financial grounding and a clear understanding of how business operates. Excellent judgment and analytical ability to make recommendations/ decisions and to resolve complex issues in a timely manner.
• Best-in-class collaboration and communication skills with a demonstrated ability work effectively in a matrixed environment and interact/ influence all levels of the organization
• Passion for process improvement with change agent abilities. Able to coach and teach others how to use and apply the business operating system to improve their processes.
• Demonstrated leadership capability specifically in agility, decision making, adaptability, and taking calculated risks; experience managing people and/or influencing across functions. These are critical capabilities to excel in this new start-up business unit.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA is valued
• Up to 40% Travel Required

Leadership Competencies and Personal Characteristics

• Leads by example-drives team enthusiasm-inspires & energizes
• Growth oriented leader with strong business & financial acumen.
• Proven strategic planning ability and track record of profitable growth
• Intimate with big picture and key details; anticipates barriers and proactively develops solutions to overcome obstacles
• Experience working in a global environment ideally in companies that derive a portion of revenue from, services, solutions management or contracting
• Excellent personal leadership, change management and desire to collaborate and influence cross-functionally-can conduct a dialogue that is intellectually honest, brings out diversity of ideas and creates the appropriate integration/connectivity
• Developer of talent and capabilities; great people leader. Can select and lead both people with deep expertise and people with breadth

Equal Employment Opportunity:
We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.