Senior Project Manager (m​/f​/d) Commercial Excellence Global

Xylem ist ein Fortune 500 Wassertechnologieunternehmen mit global 23.000 Mitarbeitenden in über 100 Ländern und einer Mission: unseren Kunden durch innovative Technologielösungen und unser Fachwissen bei der Lösung von Wasserproblemen und
-herausforderungen zu helfen. Wir sind der weltweit führende Anbieter effizienter, innovativer und nachhaltiger Wassertechnologien, die dafür sorgen, dass unser Wasser nachhaltig genutzt, optimal verwaltet, erhalten und wiederverwendet wird. Growth does not come only from selling more - it comes from being deliberate about where the business competes, which customers and products it builds around, and how it prices and serves the profitable core versus the complex tail.

This is a global role for a builder who turns that focus into hard financial results. As Global Commercial Excellence Project Manager (m/f/d), you own the execution engine behind our 80/20 value-creation agenda across the Treatment Segment business. You’ll convert vital-few insights like customer and product concentration, pricing and margin, go-to-market focus and operating-model simplification into initiatives that move the P&L.

You will be working across Strategy, Finance, Commercial, and Operations with direct visibility to segment leadership. This is not a coordination seat: you are the architect of how commercial focus gets delivered, and the role is a natural path into broader commercial and general-management leadership.

Locations:
Herford or Günzburg with a hybrid working model between on-site presence, international travel and working remotely.

• Value creation & delivery Lead end-to-end execution of high-impact 80/20 initiatives across markets — portfolio simplification, pricing and margin recovery on the long tail, customer and product focus, go-to-market redesign, and operating-model change.
• Turn analytical insight (customer/product concentration, price-cost-margin, cost-to-serve) into a sequenced, funded, owned roadmap — and own the numbers: build the business case, size the prize, and hold the line on committed outcomes.
• Set the execution cadence — structured reviews, decision forums, roadblock clearing — that keeps complex, cross-border initiatives moving to result.
• Commercial focus & margin Partner with commercial leaders to concentrate resource on the profitable core, and to price, simplify, or exit complexity in the tail. Bring rigor to pricing, product-line, and customer-segmentation decisions, connecting operational simplification to growth, margin, and freed‑up capacity — not just cost.
• Stakeholder leadership & change Drive alignment and accountability with Water Infrastructure leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, influencing across levels and geographies from analyst to executive sponsor. Lead the change agenda — adoption of new ways of working, tools, and decisions — with the communication and engagement strategy that makes it stick.
• Governance & impact Own the initiative portfolio’s governance, KPIs, and financial tracking, tied directly to 80/20 value creation. Deliver board‑ready reads on progress, impact, and risk — with recommendations, not just status — and coach initiative owners to build the discipline into how the organization thinks.

Education, Experience, Skills, Competencies, License/Certification: 15+ years in multinational organizations across strategy, operations, commercial, or transformation, including 5+ years leading complex, cross‑functional programs with cross‑border scope. Direct experience with 80/20 / value‑creation methodologies (Strategex or equivalent) and fluency in at least one adjacent discipline - Lean, Operational Excellence, Pricing, or Commercial Excellence. A commercial and financial instinct: comfortable with price‑cost‑margin, cost‑to‑serve, and portfolio economics, and building a business case finance will sign.

A track record of translating strategy into measurable results - you think in “+X% margin,” “–Y days cycle time,” not activity. Excellent stakeholder management and change‑management capability, with the ability to create clarity in fast‑paced, ambiguous…