Global Product & Program Manager - Industrial Controls & Connected Solutions

Global Product & Program Manager - Industrial Controls & Connected Solutions

Houston, TX, USA

Posted Friday, September 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Chemelex is a global leader in electric thermal and sensing solutions, protecting the world’s critical processes, places and people. With over 50 years of innovation and a commitment to excellence, we develop solutions that ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency in diverse environments – from industrial plants and data centers to people’s homes. We deliver future-ready technologies, advanced engineering capabilities and local expertise backed by global standards.

Our offering includes a leading portfolio from our trusted brands:
Raychem, Tracer, Nuheat and Pyrotenax.

Position Summary

This role will lead the strategy, execution, and delivery of specific new product introductions (NPI), while also managing market-aligned business strategies, product lifecycle management, and global growth programs across assigned control, monitoring, sensing, software, and related product lines. The role translates customer, buyer, user, and market insights into portfolio strategies, differentiated product offerings, successful launches, and sustained product-line performance.

Reporting to the Director – Program Management, this role partners with Sales, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Codes & Standards, and regional commercial teams to deliver revenue and EBITDA growth, quality, and customer value. Responsibilities span both individual product ownership and broader product-line activities, including industrial heat-tracing controls and accessories, control panels, sensors, software utilities, and connected solutions.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Product strategy, roadmaps, and portfolio leadership

• Develop and maintain product strategies, technology plans, portfolio roadmaps, and lifecycle plans for assigned product lines.
• Translate market, customer, and technology insights into portfolio priorities, business strategies, and investments that grow revenue, EBITDA, quality, and customer value.
• Partner with R&D and cross-functional teams to ensure product development priorities, requirements, roadmaps, and investment decisions remain aligned with customer needs, technology trends, market trends, and integrated-solution opportunities.

Customer, market, and opportunity insight

• Coordinate voice-of-customer, win/loss, persona, competitive, and primary/secondary research to understand workflows, buying drivers, user needs, and product-use patterns.
• Synthesize field feedback, third-party data, and competitive intelligence into actionable insights that guide product plans, messaging, investment decisions, and continuous improvement.
• Develop opportunity assessments, buy/build/partner recommendations, forecasts, financial models, and business cases.

Concept and product development

• Lead cross-functional NPI teams through product definition, requirements, prioritization, development, pricing, validation, launch readiness, and post-launch optimization.
• Guide prototyping, concept & beta testing, customer validation, pricing research, trade-off decisions, and stage-gate, Agile, waterfall, or rapid-iteration methods as appropriate.
• Manage product specifications, product cost, quality, delivery, data integrity, and readiness for assigned products.

Product-line performance and lifecycle management

• Manage assigned products as businesses within the business, tracking KPIs, sales, margin, P&L, ROI, quality, delivery, and customer outcomes.
• Own and program-manage assigned new product introduction projects, ensuring products launch on time, on budget, at the required level of quality, in alignment with customer and business requirements.
• In collaboration with Application Engineering and Operations, maintain enhancement priorities and lifecycle plans; drive cost reduction through VAVE activities; manage trade and tariff compliance; provide obsolescence and replacement recommendations; develop sun setting plans; and maintain competitive positioning.
• Ensure adherence to corporate product development, sustaining, and program management processes, while identifying…