Head of Product Management, APAC (Thermal / HVAC / Power Solutions)

Our client is a leading global provider of mission-critical infrastructure technologies, with a broad portfolio spanning thermal management, cooling, power and critical infrastructure solutions.

As the business continues to expand across Asia Pacific, they are seeking an accomplished Head of Product Management, APAC to lead the regional product strategy and portfolio.

The role is open to experienced product management leaders from Thermal, HVAC, Cooling, Power, Electrical or related industrial technology backgrounds.

This is a senior regional leadership position sitting at the intersection of product, engineering, sales and market strategy. The successful candidate will play a key role in determining how the company's global technology portfolio is positioned, adapted and developed to capture growth opportunities across APAC.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the APAC product management strategy, aligning regional priorities with the company's global product and technology roadmap.
• Own regional portfolio strategy, including product positioning, lifecycle management, portfolio rationalisation and new product introduction.
• Identify emerging customer requirements and technology trends across the rapidly evolving data center and digital infrastructure market.
• Translate APAC market requirements into actionable product priorities and influence global engineering and product development teams.
• Work closely with regional Sales and Commercial leadership to strengthen product positioning, competitiveness and go-to-market execution.
• Develop a strong understanding of customer requirements across hyperscale, colocation, enterprise and other mission-critical infrastructure environments.
• Evaluate market size, competitive positioning, pricing, product gaps and new growth opportunities across key APAC markets.
• Build robust business cases for new products, product adaptations and strategic portfolio investments.
• Partner with Engineering/R&D teams throughout the product development and introduction process.
• Drive successful new product launches and commercialisation across multiple APAC countries.
• Monitor competitor technologies, product roadmaps and market developments and translate these into strategic recommendations.
• Lead, develop and strengthen a regional product management organisation while working effectively within a complex global matrix.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for an established regional product leader with strong commercial and technical credibility.

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Significant experience in Product Management, Product Strategy or Product Marketing within a technology-led B2B environment.
• Strong experience within the data center infrastructure, critical power, thermal management, electrical infrastructure, power distribution or closely related mission-critical technology sectors.
• Demonstrated ownership of a sizeable product portfolio across multiple APAC markets.
• Strong understanding of the data center ecosystem, customer requirements and competitive landscape.
• Experience working with complex engineered products combining hardware, technology and services.
• Proven ability to translate market and customer requirements into product roadmaps and development priorities.
• Experience influencing global R&D, engineering and product organisations from an APAC regional position.
• Strong commercial understanding, including market segmentation, pricing, competitive analysis, business cases and portfolio profitability.
• Track record of successfully bringing new products to market across multiple countries.
• Experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders within a global matrix organisation.
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to engage credibly with both technical and commercial stakeholders.