Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
Flowserve is seeking a commercially driven, technically elite Product Leader to completely own and execute the worldwide strategy, roadmap, and profitability for an assigned downstream product portfolio, including all associated accessories and aftermarket offerings.
In this senior leadership seat, you will act as the ultimate business owner for your product line-balancing long-term 1-, 3-, and 5-year commercial roadmaps with daily cross-functional execution across Engineering/R&D, Sales, Global Manufacturing, and Supply Chain. Because these products are highly engineered and specialized, you will maintain deep technical application intimacy, regularly visiting customer sites and providing tactical sales and configuration support globally.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Roadmap & Financial Ownership: Define the product's market boundaries, unique value proposition, and long-term positioning. Establish and meet aggressive targets for total revenue, product costs, gross margins, and global market share over 1-, 3-, and 5-year horizons.
Lifecycle & Portfolio Optimization: Define specific hardware variations, technical features, lead times, standard global market pricing, and designated sales channels alongside platform executives.
Global Systems & Configuration: Establish and control global technical product definitions within corporate sales configurators and pricing systems to ensure accurate field quoting.
Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Author and maintain bounded project charters (covering time, scope, and cost) for initiatives spanning specialized pricing, promotional marketing campaigns, R&D engineering, localization, and strategic supply chain partnerships.
Data-Driven Performance Monitoring: Audit and reconcile ROI on all project budgets. Continuously monitor post-launch metrics including order volume, hit rates, revenue, total profitability, and warranty costs.
Voice of Customer & Field Enablement: Conduct periodic joint customer site visits with Regional Sales teams to maintain a deep technical intimacy with field applications. Partner with the Educational Services Group to lead localized technical training for customers, application engineers, sales teams, and Quick Response Centers (QRCs).
Required Skills & Qualifications
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Engineering, Business, or a relevant industrial field.
Experience Baseline: 8 to 10+ years of relevant experience in a global product management, applications engineering, or high-level technical sales role focused on highly engineered specialty hardware.
Industry Domain Expertise: A well-developed, deep technical understanding of the chemical processing, LNG, and downstream refining markets, including relevant piping systems, fluid dynamics, and the operational role of control valves in those processes.
Financial Acumen: Strong proficiency in corporate financial principles, including evaluating capital project returns on investment (ROI), discounted cash flows (DCF), and margin variance analysis.
Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to build consensus and coordinate multi-disciplinary, matrixed teams (Sales, Manufacturing, R&D, Procurement) across diverse geographical regions and business cultures.
Communications: Exceptional presentation, oral, and written communication skills with explicit experience facilitating technical workshops or executive business reviews.
Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.
Req ID : R-20056
Job Family Group : Marketing
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