Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we create technologies our customers refer to as their lifeline. Our technology platforms in communications, software, video and services help our customers work safely and more efficiently. Whether it’s helping firefighters see through smoke, enabling police officers to see around street corners, or reliably keeping the lights on in homes and businesses around the world, our work supports those who put their lives on the line to keep us safe. Bring your passion, potential and talents to Motorola Solutions, and help us usher in a new era in public safety and security.

Department OverviewOur IT organization isn’t just here to support our business. We’re here to reinvent it – by changing the way our customers, partners, and employees interact with our company. To do that, we’re looking for people who bring great ideas and who make our partners’ ideas better. Intellectually curious advisors (not order takers) who focus on outcomes to creatively solve business problems. People who not only embrace change but who accelerate it.
Job Description

General Summary:

We are seeking an IT Leader who is a lifetime student, passionate about the use of technology to achieve business goals and who can co-create the vision with business partners. The role requires management over two teams within the IT Product Engineering organization - Product Management and Hardware Engineering tools. There will be a heavy emphasis on Product Management.

This is a team management role requiring deep experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Information Management (PIM), IT System Management, and Software Management. The best candidate is self-motivated, thrives on collaborating with business partners, and loves to use technology to automate and enable business processes. This is an IT role with direct accountability for Product Management and Hardware Engineering systems. You will need to partner with our business owners to drive maximum value out of our investments.

Responsibilities:

• Use business partnerships to develop opportunities that streamline product data maintenance in PLM, and drive a reduction in time-to-market for New Product Introduction (NPI)

• Stay out in front of new product launches and ensure we have the right long term framework and architecture to deliver a frictionless experience to MSI customers

• Develop a DevOps model that brings passion and excellence to our work product

• Create and maintain strategic roadmaps aligned to company goals

• Manage a budget and strategically look for ways to drive value and optimize cost

• Attract and develop talent

• Drive initiatives to reduce the manual efforts for maintaining the product data

• Bring innovative thinking into what we do and how we do it

• Develop a unified vision and drive business partners toward it

Desired Background/Experience:

• Advanced understanding of Electrical Eng, Mechanical Eng, PLM processes, and solutions related to Engineering designs, simulations in a CAD Software, Engineering Change Notices, Contract Manufacturing, Part Qualification collaboration, Environmental Compliance, and the associated processes in an ERP environment

• End-to-end understanding of product data flow and integrations from Engineering CAD systems to PLM and then to the downstream applications including ERP, Configurator such as Oracle CPQ, eCommerce and product catalog systems.

• Strong team leader who is comfortable working with stakeholders of all levels

• Business minded, keeping a “business first” approach to everything we do

• Experience managing programs and budgets

• Experience managing and building empowered, high functioning teams

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly breakdown and translate the technical into executive-worthy communication

• Ability to create a culture of innovation, speed and agility to execute breakthrough

• Navigate the IT organization to deliver results quickly

• Support bidirectional communication between the IT organization and the business-aligned teams. Communicate plans, projects, and priorities across the organizations

• Experience working with Oracle products - advanced knowledge of the product lifecycle management functionalities offered by Oracle AgilePLM, Oracle EBS, Oracle CPQ

• Experience working with Electrical and Mechanical CAD systems such as Cadence, PTC Windchill including the engineering designs of Integrated Circuit (IC), Printed Circuit Board (PCB), Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic (RF/EM Antenna), associated simulation, fabrication and test processes

• Experience working in a large enterprise environment (100k+ SKUs, complex BOM structures)

• Experience in source code control management tools GIT, SVN etc

• Experience in Oracle DB, SQL, PL/SQL

• Experience with Java SDK, Agile SDK/Process Extensions, Event framework

• Experience in Product Configuration Management, PIM, PDM, and PLM business processes including Bill of Materials (BOM), Parts, Approved Manufacturer List (AML), Engineering Change Orders (ECO), and Product Environmental Compliance.

• ITIL and Enterprise Change Management

• Technical project management background

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in relevant Business, Technology, or Engineering specialty

• 5+ years of IT experience

• 3+ years of experience with Product Management tools

Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedDomestic
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.

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