Job Description

About Carrier
Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About Carrier Transicold

Carrier Transicold helps improve transport and shipping of temperature-controlled cargoes with a complete line of equipment and services for refrigerated transport and cold chain visibility. For more than 50 years, Carrier Transicold has been an industry leader, providing customers around the world with advanced, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable container refrigeration systems and generator sets, direct-drive and diesel truck units, and trailer refrigeration systems. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, a leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions.

About the position

The Trailer Product Manager is a critical and high visibility position managing the largest product line within the Carrier Transicold truck-trailer organization. The Trailer Product Manager oversees all aspects of the trailer product and support functions, both internal and external to the truck-trailer organization.

Internal responsibilities for the Trailer Product Manager would include involvement and management of projects and processes relating to:

• Developing and implementing both short- and long-term product and component strategy initiatives
• Working with the program management team and marketing functions on new product introductions
• Managing products through their life cycle, including obsolescence strategies
• Interacting with cross functional groups (engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales) to ensure initiatives meet schedule, cost and quality targets
• Analyzing and monitoring the regulatory environment and assuring product compliance
• Benchmarking competitive equipment

As the “face and voice” of the product line, external responsibilities include:

• Engaging with marketing resources to develop effective sales and promotional materials
• Developing and executing effective customer focused messages and campaigns
• Conducting customer visits and answer questions regarding the breadth of the trailer product line
• Traveling to customer and dealer locations and assisting sales with high level presentations, or new product introductions
• Developing and delivering presentation materials for large audiences
• Providing interviews with trade media or representing the company on discussion panels at trade shows
• Interacting closely with Carrier’s sales force, field service engineers, and dealer network to assist with applications and sales efforts
• Responding in a timely and professional manner to various customer requests
• Evaluating competitive equipment and develop effective sales communications tools on the comparative advantages of Carrier Transicold equipment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Business, Engineering, or in a technical discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in a technical environment or
• Or 5+ years technical + 2 years in a front-line business position (sales, marketing, service, applications, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications (nice to have)

• MBA preferred
• Candidate must have a proven record of leadership, strategic thinking, and project management with a business mindset, including the ability to grasp complex situations and extract key points and motives and effectively communicate and quickly act on them.
• Candidate should have excellent interpersonal skills, and be able to professionally represent the company in both writing and in oral communications (media relations, presentations, sales training, management presentations, etc.)
• Fluency in Spanish is desirable

Additional information

• This position requires up to 15% national traveling.
• This is an on-site position located in Athens, GA.

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