Global Process Owner

The GPO is the driving force behind world-class, future-ready business processes across WMFTS. Acting as the global authority, the GPO designs, delivers, and continuously improves processes that align operating companies, functions, and systems—ensuring best practice, strong governance, and real business value.

What You'll Own

• Strategy & Roadmap
  • Set the vision and roadmap for global process improvement.
  • Prioritise change backlogs to keep pace with evolving business needs.
  • Align diverse stakeholders around a unified business model.
  • Bring in external best practice to stay ahead of the curve.
• Process Design & Governance
  • Act as Design Authority for global processes.
  • Resolve cross-functional and cross-OpCo process misalignment.
  • Balance local needs with sustainable global standards.
  • Lead structured improvement using tools like BPM, VSM, PDCA, and Six Sigma.
  • Monitor adoption, performance, and continuous improvement.
  • Own data for the functional stream and champion data governance and quality.
• Change & Engagement
  • Assess impact and scale of change across the Division.
  • Influence senior leaders to drive adoption of global processes.
  • Align business and system resources for effective rollout.
  • Ensure strong communication, documentation, training, and cross-functional engagement.
• Project Leadership
  • Plan and manage workstreams (timelines, milestones, risk, resources).
  • Lead and motivate key users, analysts, and specialists.
  • Oversee process integration with system capabilities.
  • Ensure solutions meet business needs through testing and quality assurance.
  • Partner on training and change management to embed lasting adoption.
  • Provide clear, consistent reporting to stakeholders.

What You Bring

• Proven experience leading business process improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes and optimisation opportunities.
• Hands-on use of Six Sigma or similar methodologies.
• Experience driving change across global or multi-site organisations.
• Confidence engaging senior stakeholders and influencing outcomes.
• Solid understanding of data governance and data quality principles.
• Ability to create or support impactful training and enablement.

The Impact

As GPO, you don't just improve processes—you shape how WMFTS operates globally. You create alignment, unlock efficiency, strengthen data integrity, and ensure our systems and processes evolve with the business.

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.

• 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. 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.

Company Overview

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.