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Global Product Manager - UCR Treatment

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in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.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 Global Product Manager UCR Treatment and Re-use to join us at Europe . If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

 

 

The role

The Global Product Manager will be part of the global Urban Climate Resilience team, responsible for defining product range strategies in the UCR market segment that will support the achievement of our commercial goals. An important part of this role is to define and launch new products for new markets.

 

You will report to the Global BU Director Urban Climate Resilience, however, there will also be considerable interaction within our Technology & Innovation center, the territory and local sales and marketing organizations, procurement and supply chain departments and the local production departments, which gives you the opportunity to work with a high diversity of people, on difference organization levels, in different cultures.

 

Your responsibilities:

  • Responsible for strategy roadmap development, preparation and implementation of UCR solutions to reach the defined sales & margin target and grow the business globally

  • Take complete ownership for timely initiation of required innovations for the market segment and builds business cases for development, investment and launch of global projects.

  • Check opportunities and threats for business in the relevant market segment and translate (future) customer needs into business opportunities.

  • Responsible for defining which standard are relevant for Global product ranges.

 

Our requirements:

  • Master degree of Bachelor degree with a high level of analytical skills

  • Minimum 8 years of product management experience in the water sector in a high performing B2B organization and experience in contributing towards a successful, solution based selling effort (project sales)

  • Experience in wastewater treatment is needed; experience with stormwater management, rainwater treatment and re-use is preferred for the role

  • You possess good communication skills and must be able to communicate effectively and engage people at all levels both internally and externally

  • Ability to work independently with strategic outlook; should have good Project Management skills and experience with commercializing new products

  • Experience of working with different calculation, configuration and selection tools are a plus

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

 

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Recruitment agencies are requested not to respond to this vacancy. Unsolicited applications from third parties in general are also not accepted.

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Business Unit:  BU Wavin Europe (BU_WVN_44)
Functional Area:  FA Commercial (FA_COM_01)

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