Senior Director, PLM & Global Product Cost Manager

Fluence (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. Our solutions and operational services are helping to create a more resilient grid and unlock the full potential of renewable portfolios. With gigawatts of successful implementations across nearly 50 markets, we are transforming the way we power our world for a more sustainable future.

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Fluence is seeking a Senior Director to lead our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Global Product Cost function within the product organization. This is a high-visibility leadership role accountable for the governance disciplines that determine whether our product portfolio can be delivered to corporate order intake, revenue, and margin targets  will lead the function that owns end-to-end product lifecycle management across markets, global product cost governance across the bill of materials, the rolling multi-quarter per-market product cost curves reviewed monthly with senior leadership, attainment of the company's standard product configuration order intake commitment, and the accuracy and currency of cost and configuration data flowing into commercial pricing and quoting systems.

Market segment Product Managers define standard configurations and product direction; this role ensures those configurations are correctly maintained in internal systems and that the corporate commitments built on them are met. You will build and develop the team that operates these disciplines day-to-day, partner across Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Commercial to drive cross-functional cost-down execution, and represent the function in executive reviews with senior leadership, the CFO, the CEO, and the Board as required.

• Lead the PLM and Global Product Cost function within the product organization, setting the strategy, policies, and operating cadence for product lifecycle management and cost governance across markets and product platforms.
• Own the monthly review cadence on rolling multi-quarter per-market product cost curves with senior product and supply chain leadership; surface risks, dependencies, and cost reduction execution status across markets and commodities.
• Own the integrity of the standard product configuration set within the company's internal systems; ensure configurations defined by market segment Product Managers are accurately maintained, time-phased, and current across pricing, quoting, and lifecycle tooling.
• Own attainment of the corporate standard product configuration order intake commitment through the policies, governance forums, and escalation paths that drive compliance — without owning the configurations themselves, which sit with market segment Product Managers.
• Own the change request governance process: chair the cross-functional forum that decides whether change requests become productized configurations or one-off treatments; balance commercial responsiveness against cost and complexity exposure.
• Own configuration management and part numbering discipline across the product portfolio, including controlled item master practices, revision control, and where-used governance.
• Own BOM phase governance across Engineering BOM (EBOM), Manufacturing BOM (MBOM), and Service BOM (SBOM); ensure consistency, traceability, and accurate data flow between phases as products move from design through manufacturing and into the field.
• Own product data master discipline: the policies, ownership rules, and audit cadence that establish a single source of truth for product definition, configuration, and cost data across internal systems.
• Interface with Engineering on engineering change notice (ECN) and engineering change order (ECO) execution, ensuring approved changes are reflected in PLM data, configurations, and downstream pricing and quoting systems on the correct effectivity.
• Coordinate with Program Management on engineering change effectivity and cut-in implementation so that PLM data reflects the same effectivity dates and serial cut-ins committed to in execution.
• Drive…