Portfolio Manager - Industrial Heat Exchangers and Evaporation Solutions

About the role

As a Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for driving the industrial heat exchangers and evaporation solutions portfolios. Both for Service and Capital Sales. Your role includes driving development, maintenance, and optimization of a competitive portfolio aligned with customer needs, industry trends, and regulatory requirements, in close cooperation with the sales and engineering teams. You will work collaboratively across teams to ensure the portfolio's strategic direction and operational success.

Responsibilities

• Market-Driven Portfolio Ownership : Translate market and customer demand into a competitive, customer-focused portfolio while supporting its strategic direction, ongoing maintenance, and regulatory compliance.
• Portfolio Roadmap Leadership : In collaboration with main stakeholders, develop and manage the portfolio roadmap, prioritizing actions such as new product development (NPD), existing product development (EPD) and technology projects as well as phase-out process of selected models.
• Lifecycle Oversight : Execute the roadmap by managing the full lifecycle of products and services, addressing market regulatory, and operational changes to maintain relevance.
• Collaborative Development : Partner with stakeholders (e.g. Application Development, R&D, Capital Sales, Service Sales) to ensure the portfolio's application fit and strategic alignment.
• Market Readiness and Introduction : Contribute by ensuring portfolio readiness and supporting successful market implementation.
• At Alfa Laval, we embrace a hybrid work model, providing you the flexibility to work from home when it aligns with your tasks. This position is based at our Søborg (Denmark) or Lund (Sweden) office, with an expected travel commitment of approximately 30-40 days per year.
• What You Know
• A degree in a technical field, with willingness to work in a commercial/business-driven context (without hands-on technical development).
• Alternatively, degree in a business-related field combined with experience from highly technical environments.
• Strong understanding of customer needs, industry trends, and regulatory environments, particularly in the Food and Industrial Wastewater industries.
• Proven experience in managing product or service portfolios, including roadmap development, lifecycle management, and identifying portfolio gaps, preferably from an industrial equipment company.
• Ability to translate market insights into actionable strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Skilled collaborator, working effectively with cross-functional teams such as R&D, Sales, and Application Development. Proficient in analyzing market data, competitive benchmarks, and performance metrics to inform decisions
• Strong communicator, capable of leading discussions and managing multiple stakeholders
• About You
• For more information, please contact
• Portfolio Management & Innovation Manager, Riccardo Romano on riccardo.romano@alfalaval.com
• Senior Talent Acquisition Partner Europe - Food & Pharma Claus Wiinholt on claus

Additional Information

Every day, we get opportunities to make a positive impact: on our colleagues, partners, customers, and society. Together, we're pioneering the solutions of the future and unlocking the full potential of precious resources. Trusted to act on initiative, we challenge conventional thinking to develop world-leading technologies that inspire progress in vital areas, including energy, food, water, and shipping. As we push forward, the innovative, open spirit that fuels our 140-year-old start-up culture and rapid growth also drives our personal growth. So, as we shape a more resourceful, less wasteful world, we build our careers too.

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