Senior Global Product Manager - Hot & Cold Systems

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Senior Global Product Manager join us in Central Europe. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

• Lead the Hot & Cold systems portfolio across Europe/Indonesia, with Germany as the priority market.
• Define the portfolio strategy, innovation roadmap, value proposition, pricing logic, and launch priorities for assigned systems.
• Translate technical system expertise, customer needs, market trends, and regulatory requirements into profitable growth and stronger market position.
• Act as the strategic link between Product Management, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Finance, Operations, and Certification.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Strategy

• Define and maintain the 3–5 year Hot & Cold systems portfolio roadmap, including lifecycle management, portfolio simplification, and service offering per market.
• Set strategic objectives for market position, growth, pricing, and value proposition, with Germany as the lead market.

Innovation and New Business Development

• Identify, initiate, and prioritize innovation and NPI projects based on customer needs, market trends, and regulatory developments.
• Build and drive business cases for development, investment, and launch, with accountability for sales, margin, and profitability.
• Lead and drive major technical development projects (e.g., new system platforms, product lines, or technologies) from concept to market, ensuring alignment between R&D, product strategy, and commercial objectives.

Commercial Enablement

• Define price positioning, value logic, launch planning, and sales enablement (training, tools, and messaging).
• Support key projects and strategic customers where technical expertise drives commercial success.

Leadership and Governance

• Lead cross-functional teams and major system development projects, ensuring delivery of strategic platforms and innovations aligned with business objectives.
• Ensure alignment across Product Management, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Finance, Operations, and Certification.
• Own standards and certification relevance for assigned product ranges.

The profile

Education

• Master’s degree preferred, or bachelor’s degree with strong analytical capability.
• Technical degree (engineering, building systems, mechanical, or similar).
• Additional business/marketing education strongly preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years in product management in a B2B environment.
• Experience in building systems, HVAC, plumbing, heating, or pipes & fittings.
• Proven track record in innovation, business case development, and product launches.
• Experience working in international and matrix organizations.

Skills

• Strong technical understanding of Hot & Cold systems and applications.
• Strategic product management (roadmap, lifecycle, pricing, value proposition).
• Commercial and financial acumen (margin, profitability, P&L orientation).
• Ability to translate market needs into product and business opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Fluent in English; German strongly preferred.