Head (f/m/d) of Product Management and Development - Substation & Grid Monitoring
About the Role
Location Germany Bayern Erlangen Company Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG Organization Grid Technologies Business Unit Digital Grid Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced Professional A Snapshot of Your Day You start the day by reviewing portfolio-level progress across substation and grid monitoring products, gaining an overview of roadmap delivery, key risks, and interdependencies across regions and asset classes.You meet with Product Managers to review product roadmaps, customer priorities, and execution status, ensuring alignment with the overall portfolio direction and business objectives. You work with R&D and engineering leaders to address major technical or capacity constraints and to ensure investments are focused on the most strategic initiatives.In the afternoon, you focus on portfolio planning and steering: shaping the integrated portfolio roadmap, prioritizing initiatives across products, making investment trade-offs, and aligning with regional, commercial, and service organizations. You end the day advancing the long-term portfolio strategy for how Siemens Energy enables smarter, more resilient grid operations through monitoring, analytics, and digitalization.How You’ll Make an Impact
1. Lead the Substation & Grid Monitoring portfolio, defining and owning the portfolio strategy and roadmap across asset classes, while driving prioritization and strategic trade offs to maximize customer value and business impact.
2. Govern product strategy and roadmaps, providing oversight and challenge to ensure alignment with portfolio priorities, business objectives, and coherent execution across all products.
3. Own the Health & Analytics Center (HAC) portfolio vision, setting strategic objectives, investment focus, and success criteria, while ensuring consistent translation into end to end product strategies and roadmaps.
4. Shape the Digital Substation portfolio direction, defining priorities across monitoring, protection, control, and analytics, and ensuring cross product and cross unit alignment at portfolio level.
5. Drive portfolio integration and cross functional alignment, resolving prioritization and dependency conflicts, setting portfolio guardrails, and ensuring clarity across regions, product lines, and adjacent portfolios.
6. Hold portfolio level financial and organizational accountability, including R&D, CAPEX and OPEX planning, budget allocation, leadership and development of Product Management and Engineering functions, and external representation with customers, partners, and industry forums.
What You Bring
7. Completed university degree in electrical engineering or energy technology.
8. Strong product management and portfolio leadership experience in grid digitalization, substation automation with a proven ability to define product vision, portfolio strategy, and investment priorities across digital and physical grid domains.
9. Deep domain, technology, and digital understanding of grid digitalization concepts, protection & control systems, condition monitoring technologies, inspection data integration with strong software development foundations and machine learning analytics expertise as a distinct advantage, enabling informed portfolio-level strategic decisions grounded in technical and operational reality.
10. Demonstrated ability to lead and govern complex product portfolios, including responsibility for significant R&D budgets, CAPEX, and OPEX, and the capability to drive clear prioritization and investment trade-offs across grid digitalization initiatives and products.
11. Proven capability to translate customer needs, grid operational challenges, and market trends into differentiated product and portfolio strategies, working closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams to ensure effective translation into product strategies, roadmaps, and delivery outcomes.
12. Strong technical and business communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with customers, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders on grid digitalization strategy, product direction, and technology-enabled business value.
13. Collaborative yet decisive leadership style, suited to cross-functional, multi-disciplinary environments, with a demonstrated ability to align Product Management and Engineering teams around portfolio strategy, while maintaining clear ownership and accountability.