Global Platform Lead, Machine Safety

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We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

As the Global Platform Lead, you will serve in a senior, high-visibility role responsible for the strategic direction and overall success of the machine safety portfolio. You will drive commercial alignment across the broader Rockwell Automation software, hardware and services portfolio as it relates to machine safety. You will report to the Director, Sensing and Safety Business, but partner across all businesses and segments globally. You will work a hybrid schedule in a US-based, Rockwell Automation office.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and coordinate the global machine safety roadmap, including setting goals, identifying opportunities for new products or features (including multi-portfolio features), and ensuring alignment with the company's overall goals and objectives; synchronize launches and bundle products to demonstrate the greatest value to the market; responsible for leading cross-business unit market sizing and product positioning in machine safety
• Take an ownership role in architecting the machine safety strategy, including collaboration with product management, advanced technology, corporate development, and engineering teams across all business segments; stay up-to-date on industry trends, emerging technologies and competitive product launches.
• Own the global safety go-to-market model, defining how we sell safety as a system through sales, distributors, integrators, and partners:
  • Partner across the organization to develop the commercial marketing plan for our portfolio of machine safety products and services, aligned to our company's vision and strategic goals; deliver market insights to help support sustainable competitive advantage and drive commercial initiatives to achieve revenue results; closely align with commercial marketing, global sales regions, market access and portfolio engineering.
  • Develop integrated campaigns comprised of market intelligence, reputation, demand generation, and sales/partner enablement programs/tactics. Collaborate with peers across marketing, market access, and sales including regions to gather input and drive alignment. Partner with regional Marketing teams, CoEs, and market access, to execute marketing campaigns in support of business objectives. Provide guidance to key regional stakeholders on prioritizing investment and resources based on customer needs and business priorities.
  • Define and scale the safety ecosystem (safety system integrators, safety services, safety distributors specialists, TUV subject matter experts) to position Rockwell Automation as the preferred machine safety supplier globally
  • Partner directly with industry and global/strategic account teams to lead customer acquisition and conversion, driving safety specifications at key accounts; capitalize on Logix attachment for safety devices through safety system strategy and roadmap, ensuring machine safety strengthens our broader control platform position
• Develop thought leadership through content creation and publishing, hosting webinars or in-person events, speaking at industry conferences, and participating on standards committees to ensure our portfolio of products and services are positioned effectively to deliver the business outcomes, applications, and capabilities, prospects and customers care most about; lead the global community of machine safety domain experts to synthesize Rockwell's position on emerging trends and regulations.

The Essentials: You will have:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening
• Availability for travel upto 25% of the time domestic and international.

The Preferred: You might also have:

• Typically requires a minimum of 12+ years of related experience.
• Previous product marketing management responsibility for a large global portfolio and demonstrated leadership capabilities
• Prior experience with international regulatory standards or similar industry working committees
• Ability to represent the company at an executive level with key customers, industry groups, standards committees, and distributors
• Excellent communication, presentation skills and influencing capabilities; proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work with a geographically dispersed team
• Expert level of automation industry knowledge with a focus on machine safety
• TUV Functional Safety Technician Certification (or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, or other relevant standards

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

For this role, the total target compensation is from $155,520.00 - $233,280.00 USD Annual. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.