Associate Product Manager

As Associate Product Manager and a key member of our Ecolab Digital Global Water team, you will own the strategic roadmap and on-going lifecycle governance for new and existing products in Ecolab Industrial.  These products include cloud-based, customer-facing software solutions as well as desktop/mobile apps for Ecolab users.  The products may include data acquisition/transfer, data visualization/descriptive analytics, documentation of customer value, and integration with other digital products.  

What’s in it For You: 

• The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments 

• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth 

• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best 

What You Will Do: 

• Connect or translate between business and technical 

• Build the strategic roadmap of the product and lead on-going product lifecycle governance 

• Facilitate the value prop, data and analytics that matter, and technical readiness with the Business Owner 

• Promote enterprise digital strategy, leveraging the power and value of our ONE Ecolab digital brand to empower business growth 

• Interact with customers, assisting on the ‘digital sale’ 

• Identify opportunities for business-led delivery, and provide consultative support in understanding trade-offs and developing consensus 

• Protect and grow margins through product management 

• Drive innovation leadership all the way from idea creation through market execution 

• Promote new technology opportunities and trends to business partners 

• Communicate emerging business and consumer trends to delivery teams 

• Broker internal and external resources 

• Collaborate with delivery team(s) to deliver prioritized features, functional support, financial management, and release management 

• Manages and leads high level project plans and communicates status updates to stakeholders 

• Deliver the best outcome-based solutions to our customers through digital programs and products 

• Coach employees to make use of technology and information 

• Lead business analysts, knows what the team can deliver, and drives delivery commitments 

• Attract, develop and retain capable digital marketing talent 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Degree in Marketing, Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field 

• 5 years of relevant experience 

• Demonstrated ability influence without authority 

• Product discovery and ideation experience  

• Ability to communicate effectively across a variety of stakeholders (business owners, developers, senior business leaders) 

• Proven track record of successfully delivering projects on time, in budget, to scope, and with high quality 

• Resourceful and independently driven with bias toward action, able to deliver results with light-touch direction 

• Ability to work deep in the details while driving the bigger, strategic picture 

• Experience in software development 

• No immigration sponsorship available for this position

Preferred qualifications 

• Experience in phase-gated new product development as a BA, Digital Product Manager, Marketer, or RD&E Researcher 

• Experience working with data collection from multiple data sources (historians, clouds, databases, etc) 

• Demonstrated product management experience in driving product vision and roadmapping 

• Scrum experience and experience working with agile methodologies