What does that mean? If you think about it, fluids are needed in every place or process you can imagine - in every home, in every hospital, in every factory, in every farm, in every café… In fact, we rely on fluids everywhere and every day. That’s why Aliaxis are here to help create the safest, most effective, and reliable solutions for sustainable fluid management.
The Opportunity/Role
We now have an opportunity for a Product Manager to join us on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Head of Product Portfolio, the successful candidate will be responsible for defining the future product offering and go to market strategy for their allocated product portfolio. Prior experience of our current product ranges would be hugely beneficial.
Key Responsibilities will include:
1. Product Development - researching customer needs and identifying development opportunities including new features, performance requirements, etc.
2. Own project management for relevant segment Stage Gate product developments and work with R&D to deliver Stage Gate project requirements.
3. Product Implementation - including the contribution to strategic pricing decisions, providing support to commercial teams regarding margin analysis and discount decisions, delivering price increase implementation plans and providing product training to internal and external stakeholders.
4. Stakeholder Management - provide support to End Users, Specifiers, Installers, Distribution and other external stakeholder groups, support sales team at event management and CPD development and be the subject matter expert, generating content, targeting audiences and setting objectives for marketing campaigns including lead requirements and KPI measurement with marketing.
5. Performance Monitoring - responsibility for monitoring, reporting and communicating budgets, sales and P&L performance with appropriate stakeholders.
6. Market Analysis - liaising with Market Analyst with appropriate customer, channel and product data.
7. Competitor Analysis - understand competitors' product ranges to compare and communicate pricing strategy, product capabilities, service offering, marketing activity and develop a competitive advantage assessment.
8. Product Performance - responsibility and management of your product portfolio with specific regards to Product Life Cycle Management - cull/improve/NPI/obsolescence, sales & margin performance.
Requirements:
1. 5 years + commercial experience in fluid management/construction, ideally in the plastic piping sector.
2. High level knowledge of Microsoft 365 package (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
4. The ability to persuade and influence others.
5. Able to engage at all levels within a complex matrix organization.
Benefits:
* Company Bonus Scheme
* Private Health Insurance
* Life Assurance 6x annual salary
* Critical illness cover
* Pension contribution up to 10%
* Dental cash plan
* Hybrid Working - 2 days per week from home
* Enhanced parental leave
* Great discounts on local retailers and restaurants
* Fantastic Health & Wellbeing package including an Employee Assistance Programme and access to My Strength
* Full access to LinkedIn Learning to aid personal and professional development
* Cycle to work scheme
* Plus many more
Equal Opportunity Employer
Aliaxis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer who welcomes candidates and employees from all backgrounds. We are committed to building and investing in a culture of belonging, where all our employees feel empowered, can be their true selves and are able to bring their best ideas forward and contribute to the company’s “Growth with Purpose” strategy.
For us, equity and belonging start already at the application step: whether it's offering flexibility in scheduling interviews, or ensuring a supportive and inclusive environment, we strive to remove barriers and create equal opportunities for all applicants. Should you have specific needs, please do not hesitate to let us know.
At Aliaxis, we design sustainable, easy to install, and innovative solutions to address the world’s water challenges and accelerate the transition to clean energy. Thanks to our 15,000+ employees in over 40 countries, our pipes and fitting systems meet our customers’ most demanding needs for the building, infrastructure, industrial and agriculture sectors. Read more about us at www.aliaxis.com.
Aliaxis has embarked on a positive journey with its “Growth with Purpose” strategy, implementing ambitious, urgent actions for sustainability and innovation that will pay off in the short term. By 2025, we will be focusing on the areas where we can create the biggest impact: on carbon reduction in our plants and on increasing the share of recycled content in our products. In conjunction, we will continue to develop more and better water solutions for society as a whole. We are looking for passionate people that want to be part of our journey and embrace the behaviors that we at Aliaxis stand for:
* We Dare to challenge the status quo, to innovate and to learn fast,
* We Care for the environment, our customers and each other,
* We Deliver by taking accountability for our decisions and actions.
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