Product Manager

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

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.