LV Pillar & Package Substation League Leader / Director

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LV Pillar and Package Sub-station League Leader / Director

Leeds or Scarborough, UK

Misson :

LV Pillar and Package Sub-station League Director/Leader is a key leadership position who guides a squad to create high value releases. They will partner with product managers and league leaders to ensure strategy and execution alignment. LV Pillar and Package Sub-station League Director/Leader will define, own, and maintain the backlog. They will set priorities (managing scope and change requests).

E-mobility and sustainable mobility concepts are the future of the automotive and energy industry! Schneider Electric plays a key role here: from charging stations in residential and functional buildings to fleet solutions and energy distribution, software, and service solutions for charging infrastructure - we offer customers not just a product, but a perfectly customised package.

As a LV Pillar and Package Sub-station League Director/Leader, you deliver value to the business and customers while maintaining a clear view on customer needs. You represent the customer and act autonomously to communicate the right vision of our products while fostering strong relationships with stakeholders. Moreover, you own the product vision, and you are responsible for maximizing the value of the product

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Spend time with customers & stakeholders to identify value drivers
• Understand customer values, application, competitive environment, market trends, go-to-market strategies and anticipate evolutions
• Gather and analyze customer's needs by meeting them and collaborating regularly with business stakeholders
• Evaluate the strategic value of the offer
• Define and validate the offer value propositions
• Understand technical trends to identify valuable innovations in the product environment
• Lead and contribute to the customer interaction strategy
• Support business in make-or-buy decisions
• Pair with product management and other stakeholders to prioritize the backlog.
• Maintain team (also called Squad/League) Roadmap, coordinating with Product Management.
• Participate in Planning, Design, Industrial and Quality topics with the Squad/League team.
• Leads Backlog Refinement.
• Meet regularly with customers and other stakeholders to both define and prioritize feature enhancements as well as bugs. Potential on-sites for escalations and detailed use case requirements gathering.
• Manage internal escalations from customer support including prioritization, communication, and resolution.
• Manage quality issues, application bugs, and crashes as well as associated mitigation plans. This includes prioritizing the bug list and cleaning it up as well as Azure alerts from production.
• Organize and manage all releases including the main release, hotfixes, service packs and support PM in planning for future releases.
• Prioritize and track progress on security review process.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Energetic and highly motivated professional with 15+ years of experience in Electrical and industrial technologies, who has a strong background and passion in design and integration of embedded digital smart and loT-enabled systems.
• Bachelor's degree and years of product or project development experience, or project development or testing experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Expansive knowledge of the e-Mobility market and its trends, and the role of the different players including direct and indirect competition
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions and drive success
• Ownership mentality, one in which you embrace the responsibility and all that comes with it
• Experience presenting to Customers & leaders and outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills ; and experience in saying 'No' when required.
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
• Willingness to travel within Europe and other continents on need basis.
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban), an in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles would be an advantage.
• Decision making: the ability to make decisions, even tough ones, and guide the team towards achieving the product vision.
• Analytical skills: the ability to analyze data, understand customer feedback and make data driven decisions to prioritize features and enhancements and bugs resolution.
• Adaptability: the ability to adapt to changes, quickly respond to any change and open to adjusting priorities based on evolving business needs.

Core Competencies/Skills and Attributes :

Project Life Cycle Management, Client relations, Process Improvement, Project management, Interpersonal skills, Problem solving, Coaching & Cooperative, Cross- Functional Team Leadership, Quality Assurance Managing conflict, Teaching & Team player, Skilled in Microsoft Excel, Word & Project, SCRUM, Agile Methodology, Six Sigma.

• Project life cycle management
• Ecostruxture platforms
• Model based system engineering
• Agile methodology
• Six sigma
• Smart systems, Low, Medium Voltage switchgears, and Motor Control Center
• Stakeholder management
• Project planning strategy
• Cross functional
• Understanding of customer experience
• Managing conflict
• Process improvements
• Problem solving
• Onboarding, Training
• Planning and organizing
• Leadership, self-starting. motivator

At Schneider Electric, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of our organisation, it's an integral part of our history, culture, and identity. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve. As a result, our teams are stronger to drive the company's future.

"We are proudly participating in the Disability Confident Program offering support to people in the workplace who consider themselves living with a disability."

What we offer you:

Competitive salary & Bonus Scheme, 28 Days Annual Leave + Public Holidays, Holiday Buy & Sell programme, Pension Scheme, Employee Share Ownership Programme, Various Health & Wellbeing Support Options, Gym Flex, Open Talent Market (internal mobility opportunities + access to mentors & projects globally), Shopping & Dining Discounts, Learning Portal and much more.

Apply now:

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Why us?

Schneider Electric is leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation. Our technologies enable the world to use energy in a safe, efficient and sustainable manner. We strive to promote a global economy that is both ecologically viable and highly productive.

€25.7bn global revenue

137 000+ employees in 100+ countries

45% of revenue from IoT

5% of revenue devoted for R&D

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled

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