Packages Product Manager in Cheltenham

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid working)

We are seeking a highly skilled Packages Product Manager to join our Innovation and Product Management team. This is a pivotal role for a technically minded product specialist who understands market dynamics, customer needs, and the journey from concept to commercialisation.

You will drive the sustainable long‑term growth of our Packages and Decarbonisation portfolio, ensuring our products remain competitive, profitable, and aligned with evolving customer and sector needs. This role blends technical, engineering, commercial, and strategic product management responsibilities - ideal for someone who thrives in a cross‑functional, globally connected environment.

• Conduct situational analyses to understand market drivers, strategic trends, and competitive forces.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) projects during market assessment phases.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with OpCos and customers to gather deep market intelligence and understand current and future needs.
• Lead activities related to the management and development of the Packages and Decarbonisation portfolio.
• Act as an active member of cross‑functional development teams, owning gate reviews, gathering user requirements, and creating technical specifications.
• Support quality initiatives and the implementation of Engineering Change Requests.
• Develop compelling sales collateral including technical literature, brochures, videos, sizing tools, and training materials.
• Support global sales adoption and successful product launches through training sessions and promotional activities.
• Contribute to a sustainable ideation process through collaboration with Global Sales teams to maintain a strong pipeline of opportunities.
• Carry out any additional reasonable tasks required to support business and product objectives.

• 4+ years' experience in product management or a similar technical-commercial role.
• Experience working in operational sales environments serving diverse end‑user applications.
• Background in market‑led product development and commercialisation, ideally involving turnkey systems such as industrial heating, heat recovery, or decarbonisation solutions.
• Experience in strategic business development within an engineering‑focused industry.
• Strong experience collaborating with Global Operating Companies (OpCos) across Sales, Services, and Supply functions.
• Proven customer-facing commercial and technical experience.
• A background in innovation is highly desirable.

• A relevant degree or equivalent qualification.
• Excellent communicator, able to inspire, influence, and motivate stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative, adaptable, and effective across multiple functions and business environments.
• Experience in sales, business development, and marketing, preferably within steam or thermal technology sectors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.