Product Manager (m/f/d) - Pumps

Position Overview

We are seeking a commercially oriented Senior Product Manager (m/f/d) to drive the growth, competitiveness, and profitability of our chemical process pump portfolio.

This role is ideal for someone who combines a strong technical foundation with exceptional communication skills, commercial acumen, and a passion for understanding customers and markets.

Our philosophy is that successful product management begins with an intimate understanding of the market and strong relationships across the organization. Product and portfolio decisions should be driven by customer needs, competitive intelligence, and market opportunities.

The successful candidate will serve as a bridge between our customers, commercial organization, engineering, and operations, translating market intelligence into actionable strategies that deliver measurable business results.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional role requiring independent thinking, strategic judgment, and the ability to influence stakeholders across a global organization.

Ideally, the role can be based in Germany, Spain, or one of the Benelux countries with Focus on the EU Region.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop deep knowledge of the global chemical process pump market, including applications, customers, competitors, and industry trends.
- Identify customer needs, unmet requirements, buying criteria, and factors influencing equipment selection.
- Build and maintain competitive intelligence on product performance, pricing, lead times, manufacturing footprint, and commercial strategies.
- Identify high-growth market segments, new applications, competitive risks, and opportunities to increase market share.
- Gather firsthand market insight through engagement with customers, EPCs, distributors, regional sales teams, and internal stakeholders.
- Translate market and business insights into actionable strategies that drive profitable growth and strengthen competitive positioning.
- Develop and execute market-driven product and portfolio strategies aligned with growth, profitability, and lifecycle value objectives.
- Partner with engineering, operations, and supply chain to improve product competitiveness, cost, availability, delivery performance, and technology roadmaps.
- Lead global product launches, value propositions, commercial enablement, portfolio optimization, and installed-base/aftermarket growth initiatives.
- Build strong cross-functional alignment and communicate clear strategic recommendations, business cases, training, and presentations to technical, commercial, and leadership audiences.
- Other duties can be assigned.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline, or a recognized European equivalent.
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in product management, technical sales, business development, or strategic marketing within the industrial pump industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex initiatives involving multiple functions or stakeholders.
- Exceptional verbal and written English communication skills, including the ability to develop and deliver compelling presentations to technical, commercial, and executive audiences, other EU language is an advantage.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with a demonstrated ability to establish credibility and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently, setting priorities, and driving initiatives from concept through execution.
- Intellectual curiosity and a demonstrated ability to rapidly develop expertise in new markets, technologies, and applications.
- Comfortable working in a global, matrixed organization with stakeholders from diverse functional and cultural backgrounds.
- Professional fluency in English.
- Willingness and ability to travel approximately 30% of the time, including internationally.
- Familiarity with chemical process pumps, including ISO 2858 designs.
- Knowledge of the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, or other industrial process markets.
- Experience with both mechanically sealed and sealless pumping technologies.
- Experience developing product strategies, competitive intelligence programs, market segmentation, or go-to-market initiatives.
- Additional European language skills.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will become a recognized authority within the organization on the markets, customers, competitors, and applications served by the assigned product portfolio.

They will build trusted relationships across commercial, engineering, and operations teams and use those relationships to convert market intelligence into coordinated business initiatives.

Success will be demonstrated through measurable improvements in market penetration, competitive positioning, portfolio performance, customer value, and profitable growth.

Above all, the successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to move beyond understanding the business to identifying what needs to change—and mobilizing the organization to make it happen.