Global Product Manager

The purpose of this role is to achieve sustained sales growth, profitability, and improve customer satisfaction with the assigned Waukesha Cherry-Burrell (WCB) brand product offering.

At SPX FLOW, Product Managers act as owners of their assigned product line(s) and drive global growth initiatives, providing strategic direction, documenting new product development justification, prioritizing development and marketing initiatives, developing pricing strategies, and providing value proposition training to both our commercial sales organizations, channel partners, and end-user customers.

The role is expected to achieve product line targets for orders, vitality, and profitability through participation in strategic planning, value proposition definition, market and competitor research, forecasting, new product development initiation, and product lifecycle management. This role requires activity at both a strategic and tactical level across all relevant markets and regions. The incumbent will work as part of the cross-functional team including new product development (NPD) engineering, commercial sales, operations, supply chain, marketing, and finance.

Success in this role requires a knowledge of market conditions and customer needs, combined with a deep understanding of the features, functions, and benefits of the product offering. The incumbent will foster and demonstrate a culture of ownership, innovation, continuous improvement, and a bias toward action to deliver results.

• Own product line performance: orders, margin, growth vs. annual operating plan (AOP) targets
• Define product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management
• Drive pricing strategy, price realization, and profitability
• Apply 80/20 principles to optimize portfolio and prioritize resource allocation
• Lead market sizing, segmentation, and competitive benchmarking
• Capture Voice of Customer (VOC) and translate into actionable insights
• Identify growth opportunities across geographies, channels, and applications
• Develop differentiated value propositions to strengthen market position

• Build business cases and prioritize NPD / R&D investments
• Drive projects stage-gate process and ensure successful product launches
• Enable sales through tools, training, and customer engagement
• Partner with marketing on campaigns and commercial initiatives

• Coordinate cross-functional execution (Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance)
• Support Sales, Inventory, Operations, Planning (SIOP) forecasting, backlog management, and lifecycle transitions
• Lead product communications including launches, promotions, and obsolescence
• Support continuous improvement efforts across cost, quality, and delivery

• Product line orders growth and revenue compared to AOP targets
• Product line profitability (standard and gross margins, price realization)
• New product vitality index (sales of products launched within last 5 years)
• Forecast accuracy for SIOP process
• Timely execution of defined initiatives product training, promotion activities, etc.

• Product strategy, roadmap development, and lifecycle management
• Product line ownership including P&L, pricing, and forecasting
• New product development (stage-gate) and successful product launches
• Market analysis, competitive intelligence, and business case development
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to drive growth and profitability
• Cross-functional leadership and ability to influence without authority
• Analytical thinking and data-driven decision-making
• Excellent communication skills with ability to engage customers and senior leadership
• Self-driven, adaptable, and able to operate effectively in a fast-paced global environment

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years in a product management role, preferably within industrial or business to business (B2B) manufacturing
• Experience owning product strategy, pricing, and lifecycle management
• Strong analytical, commercial, and cross-functional leadership skills
• Broad product and market knowledge in responsible product line area