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.
Join Thermo King as a Product Manager for our Truck platform! As a Product Manager, you are responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, new product development, and in-line product management for your assigned Thermo King Truck portfolio. You are also accountable for supporting profitable growth and for achieving sustainability objectives in alignment with Trane Technologies’ overall strategy and goals. This position is eligible for a Hybrid work schedule (3 days in-office) and will be based out of our Minneapolis, MN location.
Responsibilities
- Manages the Truck transport refrigeration product through the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision.
- Develops a vision for the product that includes knowledge about timing, resource implementations, tradeoffs and competitive landscape data.
- Demonstrate market leadership in crafting product roadmap for an Electrified Vehicle and Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU) future – maintaining balance between short term and long term profitability objectives
- Visits customers face-to-face in an effort to understand customer needs from their business point of view.
- Interacts with engineering to ensure product design, quality, reliability and profitability goals are met.
- Communicates product roadmap and plan with Business Unit product planning team; coordinates the plan with functional partners.
- Coordinates with the marketing and sales teams to develop and implement a marketing strategy and plan (including targeted programs and promotions) for each new or updated product/service or extension.
- Interacts with the sales team to review and adjust the distribution strategy for each product/service line based on performance.
- Advocates the strategy roadmap to the broader organization.
- Develops compelling communication around the value proposition and differentiation to competitive offers and or alternative solutions.
- Understands organizational culture and can fully operate across organizational boundaries.
- Leads the execution of detailed demand planning for all product/service lines based on input from industry, market and competitor analyses.
- Works independently to manage and lead standard management routine activities pertaining to Product Growth Teams driving all meetings, measuring metrics, conducting analytics and utilizing an effective visual management system.
- Applies a Multi Generation Product Plan (MPP) in creating a vision for the product/service.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or other technical-related degree
- A minimum of 3 years of product management, sales, or other relevant experience
- Ability to travel up to 25%
- Must have technical aptitude and the ability to work across different functions
- Strong financial acumen is required
- Excellent organization skills and flexibility to handle a variety of time sensitive tasks and projects
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective support on a broad range of activities requiring attention to detail
- Solid analytical and communication skills
- Knowledge of the transport refrigeration business and trucking industry preferred, but not required
Annual Base Pay Range: $111,450 – 175,500
Additional Compensation: Total compensation for this role also will include an incentive plan.
Disclaimer: This “range” could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed, education, experience, travel requirements for the job, or because of a system the employer uses to measure earnings by quantity or quality of production (so, for example, positions that may not have traditional salary ranges).
*Benefits vary by region, business alignment, union involvement and employee status.
What’s in it for you:
- Benefits kick in on day one!
- 6% 401K match, additional 2% core contribution = 8% overall match
- 3 weeks of vacation, plus site paid holidays
- Benefits*: Trane-Technologies-Benefits-Offered.pdf
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