Product Manager - Packages

Location: Cheltenham, UK (Hybrid working) Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, Discount scheme.

Role Overview

The Product Manager – Packages will take on responsibility as a technical product management specialist, demonstrating excellent understanding of market and customer needs. Working as part of the Product Portfolio team, the Product Manager will support sustainable long-term growth, maximised profit and an increased vitality index for the portfolio by ensuring our products and services meet customer needs and are attractive to the market.

Your Objectives And Responsibilities Will Focus On…

• Situational analysis to understand strategic trends, market drivers and competitive forces
• Management and development of the PSSO portfolio into sectors through a mix of technical, engineering, commercial, strategic and marketing activities
• Supporting new product development projects in the market assessment phase
• Maintaining regular contact with Operating Companies internally and external customers; assisting with market intelligence investigations to understand current and future customer needs for products and the support required for successful implementation/adoption
• Working with Marketing colleagues to manage the production of sales collateral such as brochures, sales tools and training materials to support successful sales growth and adoption
• Assisting with launch related training and promotional activities
• Being an active member of new product introduction (NPI) teams; including ownership of gate review meetings, leading technical specification development meetings and participating in product development project meetings
  
  

Your Previous Experience Is Likely To Include….

• Working within Product Management, or a similar role
• Operational sales environments where portfolio products are provided into a wide variety of end-user customer applications
• Market-led product development
• Working in a strategic business development discipline within the engineering industry
• Developing engagement with interna stakeholders/Operating Companies
• A commercial and technical, customer-facing background
• Working within an innovative role
  
  

To be successful in this role you will…

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
• Be an excellent communicator, with the ability to inspire and motivate
• Be highly collaborative and adaptable with the ability to work effectively across functions, business units and external stakeholders
• Possess relevant qualifications, or will be suitably qualified by experience
  
  

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.