Head of Room and Energy Management Product Unit

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions is part of the ASSA ABLOY Group who are the global leader in access solutions. Every day we reimagine how people move through a safer more open world with ease. If youve ever walked through an automatic door stayed in a hotel or gone through passport control youve probably used one of our products or services. We have operations in over 70 countries with over 52000 colleagues around the world.

Our expertise in customer journey mapping innovation and service design leads to the invention of new solutions that create value for our clients and exceptional experiences for their end users. And we have the fantastic opportunity available in Vingcard for a Head of Room and Energy Management Product Unit.

Your Role in Keeping the Future in Safe Hands

Reporting in to the CTO of Vingcard you will lead the global strategy consolidation and commercialisation of a critical product unit within the Vingcard portfolio. You will be accountable for shaping the future product roadmap owning AI-first R&D execution within your product unit and delivering a scalable regionally deployable go-to-market (GTM) product set.

What you will do

You will lead the creation and operation of the Room and Energy Management Product Unit and be accountable for all product R&D and commercial enablement activities for this domain globally.

You will work in close partnership with:

• The Heads of other Product Units to ensure portfolio integration and interoperability
• Regional commercial leaders
• Marketing Operations and Support functions

Together you will ensure that the product unit delivers profitable growth strong customer sentiment technical coherence and rapid global scalability.

What we expect of you

• Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for the product unit.
• Lead the consolidation of products across acquired businesses into a single unified GTM offer.
• Define a clear migration and end-of-life strategy for legacy platforms.
• Ensure a modular globally scalable product architecture aligned to the unified Vingcard vision.
• Work closely with other Product Unit Heads to ensure cross-portfolio alignment interoperability and avoidance of duplication.
• Maintain strong oversight of the competitive landscape market trends and
• Own R&D delivery for the product unit including software firmware hardware data and AI capabilities.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled development testing automation analytics and operational intelligence within the unit.
• Ensure tight alignment between hardware firmware cloud data and AI components.
• Prioritise speed quality security resilience and scalability across all development initiatives.
• Partner with other Product Units to ensure shared standards common interfaces and platform consistency.

• Own the global GTM strategy and phased regional rollout in partnership with Sales and Marketing for the products within your product unit.
• Work with regional leaders on readiness certifications and launch sequencing by market.
• Ensure creation of sales enablement training and deployment/support playbooks.
• Lead the transition of sales installation and support from Product Unit to Regions as maturity allows.

• Full accountability for budget investment priorities and commercial performance of the Product Unit.
• Direct revenue margin and customer sentiment targets for the Product Unit portfolio.
• Own pricing lifecycle profitability and value-based commercial strategy.
• Partner with Operations on manufacturing supply chain and sourcing strategy.

• Drive integration and change across acquired businesses.
• Preserve domain expertise while moving to unified platforms and processes.
• Act as a senior leader in cross-Product Unit governance and platform alignment.

Skills & Experience

• 710 years experience in senior product technology or platform leadership roles within hospitality IoT networking energy SaaS or complex B2B technology environments.
• Proven experience leading multi-national matrix organisations.
• Strong background in product engineering platform development and complex system integration.
• Experience with cloud platforms data platforms and/or AI/analytics-enabled products.
• Track record of leading product consolidation and large-scale portfolio transformation.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience owning P&L or category-level financial performance.
• Excellent stakeholder leadership across R&D Sales Operations Marketing and Regions.
• High emotional intelligence cultural awareness and change-management capability.

What you can expect from us

• Generous and competitive total rewards package.
• Comprehensive and career-development resources to expand your skills and maximise your potential.
• Supportive and accessible leadership team and a solid values platform that underpins who we are and how we operate.

Application

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About Us

Featuring four times in Forbes most innovative companies worldwide we deliver innovative safe and convenient security solutions that provide real added value to our customers. As a group our goal is to everyday help billions of people experience a more open proud to boast leading positions across the majority of Europe North and South America Asia and Oceania offering products and services to our customers seeking solutions to their entrance and opening requirements such as locks doors and entrance automation.

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access return we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces physical and virtual safer more secure and easier to access.

As an employer we value results not titles or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions supporting them with regular feedback training and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact and we encourage them to grow their role locally regionally or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board its important to us to have diverse inclusive teams and we value different perspectives and experiences.