Your responsibilities
- Strategic, customer‐centric development of an evidence‐based, future‐proof product
portfolio across entire product life time
- Global management of the product line, ensuring competitive positioning and continuous
improvement, especially based on PL Data (internal / external) and KPI’s Maintenance of
project & portfolio tracking tools / data sources to facilitate communication and decision
making
- Understand market trends / customer requirements and translate to product
requirements and feed so the R&I funnel
- Initiate and supervise product strategy, new developments, upgrades and termination
and, in coordination with R&I, PD and NPI
- Initiate and steer development of configuration, design, calculation and costing tools (eg
KSRT), in coordination with C&P
- Develop themselves as Product Line experts, continuously collect and capitalize product
know how, share across the organization best practices and lesson learn
- Maintain all necessary documentation (e.g., technical specifications for product
developments, product brochures, handbooks and trainings materials, except PD
operational documents).
- Competitor monitoring and analysis, including with MI support and input data
- Supports upstream GSE, Sales and Service teams as well as downstream operations teams
in technical meetings with customers, collecting “Voice of Customer” from bid stage to
recuring or major warrantee claims
Your profile
- Preferably a university degree (Master of Science, Dipl.-Ing., or equivalent) in a business‑related or technical field.
- Significant and relevant technical experience in the heat exchanger industry is essential.
- Additional qualifications such as IWE, PE, Eur. Ing., or Chartered Engineer are considered a strong plus.
- At least 3 years of experience in product development (e.g., R&D, application engineering, PLM) or technical sales.
- Experience in project and lateral management.
- Solid understanding of the heat exchanger market.
- Experience in customer‑facing roles, ideally supporting technical or commercial discussions.
- Excellent written and spoken English; additional languages are an advantage.
- Strong command of MS Office applications (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Basic working knowledge of SAP.
- Strong analytical thinking, flexibility, and a customer‑oriented approach.
- Ability to lead and collaborate with remote teams successfully.
- Excellent communication skills and a high level of resilience.
- Team‑oriented mindset combined with openness, creativity, and a forward‑thinking attitude.
- Pragmatic and conscientious approach when analyzing past performance and deriving improvements.
- Willingness for occasional travel, largely self‑planned depending on product line needs.
- Experience collaborating with teams in India or familiarity with Indian working culture is highly beneficial, as one of our manufacturing sites is located there and regular interaction may be required.
At Kelvion we thrive on collaboration, embracing diversity of thought, and valuing every voice. Within Kelvion creativity shines because people are listened to, their contributions recognised, and their ideas welcomed. Our flexible approach to the way we work places people’s health and satisfaction as a priority, enhancing engagement and fostering career opportunities. We empower engaged individuals to grow, progress and carve their own paths within the company.
