India Data & AI Associate Director

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Organizational Leadership & People Development

Lead the India Data & AI organization as its most senior leader, setting the tone for culture, performance expectations, and professional standards

Manage a team of managers and technical leads, providing strategic direction, coaching, and accountability with a focus on developing the next layer of leadership

Own the India organization's talent agenda: workforce planning, hiring strategy, succession planning, and creating clear growth pathways for technical and managerial talent at every level

Build and sustain a high-performance culture that is collaborative, curious, accountable, and invested in continuous learning

Serve as the primary liaison between the India organization and nVent's Data & AI leadership, ensuring consistent communication, aligned priorities, and effective ways of working across geographies

Strategy & Portfolio Governance

Partner with global Data & AI leadership to translate nVent's enterprise data and AI strategy into a roadmap that is realistic, well-sequenced, and resourced appropriately

Own portfolio-level accountability across all India workstreams, monitoring delivery health, surfacing risks early, and making decisions about prioritization and resource allocation that span functional boundaries

Contribute to enterprise planning cycles by representing India's capacity, capability, and delivery perspective in roadmap and investment discussions

Drive the India team's operating model evolution while the organization scales. Address delivery practices and governance. Improve ways of working with the distributed team to support sustained growth.

AI Portfolio Ownership

Provide strategic direction and organizational accountability for nVent's AI solution development

Ensure the AI delivery organization operates with velocity, governance alignment, and the engineering field required to move solutions reliably from use case to production

Partner with collaborators to align the AI delivery portfolio with enterprise priorities, governance requirements, and expectations of business value

Champion responsible AI practices, ensuring solutions are built with appropriate transparency, testing, and risk management

Analytics Leadership & Global Delivery

Lead the India Analytics function, owning delivery, quality, talent development, and organizational effectiveness across reporting, self-service enablement, and advanced analytics

Partner with the Analytics leadership to build and complete our global analytics strategy, with shared standards, aligned priorities, and one consistent delivery model across geographies

Co-own the global analytics roadmap and delivery model, resourcing, platform decisions, and extending global delivery

Align analytics delivery to modern data platforms and certified data

Data Governance Engagement

Partner with enterprise Data Governance and Privacy leadership to ensure delivery activity is aligned to nVent's governance framework and regulatory obligations

Promote governance-by-design culture making quality, transparency, and compliance a shared expectation

Executive Collaborator Engagement

Represent the India Data & AI organization to global technology and business leadership, communicating delivery status, strategic priorities, and organizational health with clarity and credibility

Build trusted relationships with executive and functional leadership

Participate in enterprise-level governance forums, investment reviews, and program steering committees

Shape how nVent's global Data & AI leadership team understands, engages, and invests in the India organization

Requirements:

15+ years of progressive experience in data, analytics, and/or AI fields, with a clear arc of growing leadership scope and organizational accountability

7+ years in senior people leadership roles with demonstrated experience leading managers and senior technical leads

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related technical field

Minimum of 8 years of experience in data management, analytics, or business intelligence

Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing, multi-disciplinary data and AI organizations in a global enterprise environment

Experience in a distributed, multi-geography model, with accountability to senior leadership in a separate location; experience as the most senior technology leader on a site is preferred

Demonstrated success owning a portfolio of concurrent, delivery programs across multiple fields while maintaining organizational health and strategic alignment

Experience contributing to enterprise data and AI strategy, including roadmap development, investment prioritization, and organizational design

Experience in a B2B manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex enterprise environment is a plus

Exceptional executive communication and influence skills to represent organizational priorities, risks, and needs credibly and persuasively to senior US-based leadership, business partners, and board-level audiences

WE HAVE:

- A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

- nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

- Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com .

- Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

- We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

- Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

- Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:

- Innovative & adaptable

- Dedicated to absolute integrity

- Focused on the customer first

- Respectful and team oriented

- Optimistic and energizing

- Accountable for performance

- Benefits to support the lives of our employees

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.