Senior Project Manager (mfd) Commercial Excellence Global

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23000 employees operating in over 150 countries Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the worlds most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

Growth doesnt come only from selling more - it comes from being deliberate about where the business competes which customers and products it builds around and how it prices and serves the profitable core versus the complex tail. This is a global role for a builder who turns that focus into hard financial results.

As Global Commercial Excellence Project Manager (m/f/d) you own the execution engine behind our 80/20 value-creation agenda across the Treatment Segment business. Youll convert vital-few insights like customer and product concentration pricing and margin go-to-market focus and operating-model simplification into initiatives that move the P&L. You will be working across Strategy Finance Commercial and Operations with direct visibility to segment leadership. This is not a coordination seat: you are the architect of how commercial focus gets delivered and the role is a natural path into broader commercial and general-management leadership.

Locations: Herford or Günzburg with a hybrid working model between on-site presence international travel and working remotely.

Essential Duties And Principal Responsibilities:

Value creation & delivery

• Lead end-to-end execution of high-impact 80/20 initiatives across markets portfolio simplification pricing and margin recovery on the long tail customer and product focus go-to-market redesign and operating-model change.
• Turn analytical insight (customer/product concentration price-cost-margin cost-to-serve) into a sequenced funded owned roadmap and own the numbers: build the business case size the prize and hold the line on committed outcomes.
• Set the execution cadence structured reviews decision forums roadblock clearing that keeps complex cross-border initiatives moving to result.

Commercial focus & margin

• Partner with commercial leaders to concentrate resource on the profitable core and to price simplify or exit complexity in the tail.
• Bring rigor to pricing product-line and customer-segmentation decisions connecting operational simplification to growth margin and freed-up capacity not just cost.

Stakeholder leadership & change

• Drive alignment and accountability with Water Infrastructure leadership and cross-functional stakeholders influencing across levels and geographies from analyst to executive sponsor.
• Lead the change agenda adoption of new ways of working tools and decisions with the communication and engagement strategy that makes it stick.

Governance & impact

• Own the initiative portfolios governance KPIs and financial tracking tied directly to 80/20 value creation.
• Deliver board-ready reads on progress impact and risk with recommendations not just status and coach initiative owners to build the discipline into how the organization thinks.

Qualifications: Education Experience Skills Competencies License/Certification:

• 15 years in multinational organizations across strategy operations commercial or transformation including 5 years leading complex cross-functional programs with cross-border scope.
• Direct experience with 80/20 / value-creation methodologies (Strategex or equivalent) and fluency in at least one adjacent discipline - Lean Operational Excellence Pricing or Commercial Excellence.
• A commercial and financial instinct: comfortable with price-cost-margin cost-to-serve and portfolio economics and building a business case finance will sign.
• A track record of translating strategy into measurable results - you think in X% margin Y days cycle time not activity.
• Excellent stakeholder management and change-management capability with the ability to create clarity in fast-paced ambiguous environments.
• Nice to have: PMP / PRINCE2 or Lean Six Sigma; exposure to pricing sales-force effectiveness or go-to-market design; multilingual with cross-regional experience.
• Fluent in English additional languages are a plus

We Offer You More Than Just A Job

• Professional Development To advance the capabilities of our people we offer a wide variety of experiences to support our employees professional growth and continuous learning.
• Total Rewards We offer comprehensive programs for compensation benefits recognition learning and development work-life integration and corporate citizenship.
• Watermark Watermark is our corporate social responsibility program working to provide education and access to safe water to ensure healthy lives gender equality and resilient communities. Employees have the opportunity to learn and volunteer on various water-related projects.
• Employee Networks Our Employee Networks provide a professional supportive network for employees from diverse backgrounds including Womens LGBT and Allies Veterans People of Color and Allies Emerging Leaders and Working Parents Networks.

The minimum salary for this position is 67.000 / year Bonus. Depending on qualifications and professional experience a higher salary is possible.

For questions regarding this opportunity please reach out to Niklas Naunheim Talent Acquisition Lead Europe at 49 .

We are looking forward to your application!

Xylem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability or other characteristics protected by law.

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Join the global Xylem team to be a part of innovative technology solutions transforming water usage conservation and re-use. Our products impact public utilities industrial sectors residential areas and commercial buildings with a commitment to providing smart metering network technologies and advanced analytics for water electric and gas utilities. Partner with us in creating a world where water challenges are met with ingenuity and dedication; where we recognize the power of inclusion and belonging in driving innovation and allowing us to compete more effectively around the world.