Spirax Group

Product Manager - Downstream Process Technologies

Spirax Group  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Remote)  •  17 hours ago
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Job Description

Job Title: Product Manager - Downstream Process Technologies
Location: UK
Location Type: Remote
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

Travel: While this position is remote, heavy travel to the Falmouth office is expected in the first 3 months (around 75%)

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax
Group, 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.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging
team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing
growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our
website to learn more.


Watson-Marlow
Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) is seeking an experienced Product Manager to
lead the global Biopure single-use components and fittings portfolio, and WM
Architect single-use assemblies portfolio, supporting the Life Sciences sector.

The
successful candidate will have a proven track record in Product Management
within a life sciences B2B environment, ideally with experience in
engineering-led product development projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Customer & Market Insight
  • Act as the voice of the customer for downstream bioprocessing applications, translating customer needs and operational challenges into product requirements and priorities.
  • Conduct customer discovery activities, including Voice of Customer interviews, application reviews, process observations, and data analysis.
  • Develop compelling customer value propositions based on key drivers such as risk reduction, process efficiency, compliance, and total cost of ownership.
  • Monitor market, competitor, and regulatory developments to inform product strategy, positioning, and growth opportunities.
Product Strategy & Portfolio Management
  • Own the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management of the Downstream Processing portfolio from concept to end-of-life.
  • Develop Market Requirements Documents (MRDs), support validation activities, and oversee field trials.
  • Define portfolio positioning, messaging, and differentiation strategies to drive market adoption and profitable growth.
  • Lead new product proposals, business cases, launch planning, and go-to-market execution.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage synergies between single-use technologies and WMFTS hardware solutions.
Commercial Performance
  • Manage portfolio profitability through pricing, margin management, segmentation, and growth strategies.
  • Monitor portfolio performance, including sales growth, profitability, win/loss analysis, product vitality, customer feedback, and lifecycle metrics.
  • Drive continuous portfolio optimisation, including rationalisation and end-of-life management.
  • Equip sales teams with value-based selling tools, training, and customer success evidence.
Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Sales to deliver high-quality products that meet customer and market needs.
  • Act as the primary Product Management contact for manufacturing sites and external production partners.
  • Support lifecycle, supply, change management, and customer-critical issues across manufacturing locations.
  • Represent WMFTS at industry events, conferences, and technical forums, strengthening market presence and customer relationships.
Key Deliverables
  • Delivery of the product portfolio strategy and five-year roadmap.
  • Product Vitality Index performance.
  • Sales growth and profitability of assigned product ranges.
  • Business case and NPI pipeline performance.
  • Effective product launches and lifecycle management.
Key Relationships
  • Global Sales Teams, Key Accounts, OEMs, integrators, and industry partners.
  • Strategic customers and application experts.
  • Internal stakeholders across Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and Marketing.

Skills/Experience:
  • Experience within the Life Sciences sector (Pharma, Biopharma, or Medical Devices).
  • Knowledge of single-use technologies, components, assemblies, and associated applications.
  • Experience in Product Management or a closely related commercial or technical role.
  • Understanding of engineering-led product development projects.
  • Ability to travel as required within the UK and internationally for customer visits, conferences, trade shows, and WMFTS locations.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking
care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package,
including:

  • A competitive salary
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • A generous holiday allowance
  • Three days’ paid volunteering leave
  • Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group
    Inclusion Plan

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 spiraxgroup.com/inclusion

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive
and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to
apply.

If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us
know.


At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are
driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace
where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in
manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for
the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products,
including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use
applications.

Our shared 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 116 countries, we provide the solutions that
sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans
to mobile phones!

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.


Spirax Group

About Spirax Group

Spirax Group is the new name for Spirax-Sarco Engineering.

We are a global thermal energy and fluid technology solutions Group, positioned to play a critical role in enabling the industrial transition to net zero, in support of our Purpose, to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders, as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world.

Our solutions improve the operating efficiency and safety of the critical industrial processes that sit behind the production of consumables used every day. Our recently launched new-to-world decarbonisation* solutions use proprietary technologies to electrify boilers, for the raising of steam, as well as the electrification of other critical industrial process heating applications.

Our Group comprises three world-leading Businesses:

Steam Thermal Solutions helps customers control and manage steam within their mission critical industrial applications, helping to put food safely on the world’s tables and keep our hospitals running.

Steam Thermal Solutions includes:

Spirax Sarco

Gestra

Electric Thermal Solutions has proprietary technologies that deliver electrification solutions at scale in industrial settings. We also deliver freeze protection and defrost solutions critical to aviation and space industries and ensure thermal uniformity in semiconductor chip manufacturing to power the critical electronic systems we rely on.

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is engineering vital fluid technology solutions that optimise the efficient use of resources and support advancements in global health, such as lifesaving vaccines and gene therapies.

Spirax Group is a FTSE 100 Company, headquartered in Cheltenham (UK). We have 37 strategically located manufacturing plants around the world, with 10,000 colleagues, operating in 66 countries and serving 110,000 customers globally.

* Eliminates Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions when connected to a green electricity source.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cheltenham, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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