Project Manager – Product Development, Cold Plate Business

Company Overview

Vertiv, a global organization with 31,000 employees and a turnover of 8 billion USD, designs, builds and services critical infrastructure that enables vital applications for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities. We support today’s growing mobile and cloud computing markets with a portfolio of power, thermal and infrastructure management solutions.

Vertiv is publicly traded at NYSE (VRT) with Global Headquarters in Westerville, Ohio, USA and a global presence with design, manufacturing and customer experience centers in America, Europe
- Middle East
-Africa and Asia/Pacific regions.

We are seeking a Project Manager – New Product Development to lead cross-functional projects for the development, customization, industrialization, and launch of cold plate products and liquid cooling solutions
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As part of the global Thermal Program management team, the Project Manager will be responsible and accountable for managing projects from inception to product launch, including new product development, customer‑specific engineered‑to‑order solutions, product customization, and product transfers into production. This role will coordinate the efforts of engineering, product management, manufacturing engineering, operations, procurement, quality, order fulfillment, logistics, service, marketing, sales, and other cross‑functional teams to ensure successful project execution.

The Project Manager has no direct reports but will manage people indirectly. The Project Manager is responsible for projects scope, schedule and budget. Project manager is also driving the team to achieve the objectives of product costs and Time to Market.

The successful candidate must be able to navigate complexity, influence without direct authority, foster strong stakeholder relationships.

While located at the organization in Georgetown, TX this role operates in an international and multicultural environment.

The Project Manager must maintain continuous alignment of program scope with Company strategic business and other organizational objectives, make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness, highlight any possible situation hindering achievement of program results and elaborate a recovery plan.

The context in which the Senior Program Manager operates is characterized by complex relationships in an international and multicultural environment, typical of large organizations. The Project Manager therefore must be able to navigate complexities, foster relationships, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.

• Lead cross‑functional projects for new cold plate product development, engineered‑to‑order customer solutions, product customization, and product transfers into manufacturing.
• Manage projects in accordance with the corporate NPDI / New Product Development and Introduction process.
• Develop, maintain, and execute project plans, including timelines, milestones, deliverables, resource plans, budgets, risk registers, and dependency tracking.
• Own project scope, schedule, budget, risk management, escalation, and overall execution performance.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams including engineering, product management, manufacturing engineering, operations, procurement, quality, logistics, service, marketing, sales, and order fulfillment.
• Work with functional leaders globally to identify and secure the resources required to adequately staff projects.
• Ensure project execution remains aligned with the manufacturing strategy, production capabilities, and launch readiness.
• Drive alignment between project scope, business strategy, customer requirements, product roadmap priorities, technical feasibility, and manufacturing capability.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management to define product requirements, specifications, customer needs, business cases, and launch priorities.
• Work closely with Engineering to support design, development, validation, and release of cold plate solutions that meet performance, reliability, quality, and cost targets.
• Support key development activities including…