Delta Controls is looking for a Product Strategy Manager to join the product strategy team. This person will report to the Chief Technology Officer, you will guide strategic direction of the set of business units at Delta Controls. This includes managing the overall product roadmaps and strategies. This involves researching products and technologies, and analyzing market conditions. You will develop business cases qualifying the present and future values for new product initiatives and strategic decisions that drive future direction. You will leverage your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.
You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. You will work with external resources to help define product vision and scope requirements. You will work with marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, assisting in the product positioning, key benefits, and target customers. You will also serve as the evangelist for your product offering, often interacting with the sales channel and key customers to gather needs, use-cases, and communicate the future direction externally.
Work Mode: Hybrid (Three days a week to the office)
Work Location: Surrey
Travel: Business trips will be required, approximately 10% to 15%
Salary: $110,000 - $151,000
Type: full-time, Permanent
About Delta Controls Inc.
Delta Controls is the benchmark for building controls manufacturers, being one of the most respected organizations in our industry, with more than 300 Partners/Distributors in over 80 countries. For more than three decades Delta Controls has offered innovative and exciting building automation solutions for commercial, healthcare, education, leisure buildings and more. As industry leaders, our track record includes delivering the world’s first fully integrated native BACnet building solution encompassing HVAC, lighting and access control products.
As part of Delta Electronics Inc., the global leader in switching power supply solutions and DC brushless fans and an $8+ billion USD organization, Delta Controls is able to bring some of the most energy efficient and sustainable solutions to buildings around the world, working together toward our shared vision of developing technologies aimed at reducing global warming and ensuring a sustainable future for mankind. Delta Electronics products are the most energy efficient power products in the industry and include a comprehensive range of energy management solutions in Industrial Automation, Telecom Power, UPS and Data Center Infrastructure, Automotive Electronics and Energy Storage Systems.
Why Work for Us?
We provide fantastic opportunities to individuals passionate about business and technology. Delta Electronics products are the most energy efficient power products in the industry and our company is perfect for those who want to create, design and build sustainable solutions using massively scalable, big-data architecture, with a strong focus on building automation. Here are some of the Delta perks you’ll receive from day 1!
- Employee & safety centric culture with the possibility of remote work
- Flexible hours and scheduling available
- Competitive total compensation along with generous vacation allowances
- Three weeks of vacation
- In-house & external training provided along with education support and opportunities for growth
- Company funded annual personal development budget
- Financial benefits & planning such as group RRSP & company match
- Employer paid premiums for extended healthcare and family-focused benefits (health, vision and dental)
- Travel insurance coverage and access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Wellness - onsite fitness center & company reimbursement for personal gym memberships
- Internal Recognition & Service Awards
- Employee Referral bonuses
- Transit accessible with free onsite parking
- Regular company events such as "Food Truck Fridays", Lunch & Learn and other planned activities
Duties and Responsibilities
- Management of the overall Product Roadmaps and Strategy for each Line of Business.
- Management of the Product Strategy Process.
- Ensuring consistent and proper communications of all strategies.
- Identifying training and educational requirements and opportunities for continuous improvement and development of departmental staff.
- Similar to the Product Strategist, developing overall product plans and future directions for the assigned product platforms. This requires a thorough review and analysis of market needs, trends, and other data procured from external and internal resources.
- Procurement and analysis of financial data to support business cases and all directional decisions.
- Evaluation of product vision and scope to define high level and requirements for product offering. This may involve interviews with user groups, and meetings with customers to develop use cases.
- Analysis of incoming feature requests and customer needs.
- Attending trade shows to represent the company and to perform market research on competing products and technologies in the industry.
- External announcements of product release and updates.
- Overall responsibility for each of the products in your product platform, from conception to release or launch. This also includes all aspects of functionality, quality, packaging, ordering, documentation etc.
- Assist in the planning, coordination and production of the product launch.
- Coordinate research on new products and innovative technologies for use with the Delta product line. Attend relevant trade shows or external customer meetings pertaining to the industry.
- Define needs and assign internal resources for research purposes, to help determine technical and financial feasibility of defined development directions.
- Work with Sales and Marketing to define product pricing strategy for existing and new products.
- Present at conferences to explain product and company direction. Engage with attendees to develop relationships and gain confidence in corporate direction to help promote adoption, sales and goodwill towards the company.
- Help manage feature requests during the lifecycle of the product lines.
- Content for launch material to be provided to sales and marketing.
- May be required to perform other related duties as assigned.
Required or Strongly Preferred Skills and Abilities
- Strong Leadership skills.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Confident public speaker and presenter.
- Strong creative skills.
- Strong business knowledge.
- Analytical abilities; effective at developing quantitative market and product analyses in terms of product sales, adoption rates, multi-channel rollout and product pricing.
- Ability to be forward thinking and analyze impacts of different scenarios on the existing products and their platforms.
- Excellent understanding of building automation and current product architectures.
- Clear understanding of the product to market process.
- Good understanding of technology and the current trends and directions.
- Well rounded understanding of goals and user interactions with building automation systems.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
- Degree or Technical Diploma in Engineering or Automation field.
- 10+ Years’ experience in Building Automation System design and implementation.
