Water and Waste business unit (WAW) is a true end-to-end business as part of Wärtsilä Portfolio Businesses. WAW is a global leader in designing and supplying innovative wet and dry waste equipment and freshwater generation solutions for passenger vessels & conventional waste management and ballast water treatment equipment for all marine segments. WAW has the industry’s broadest product offering to secure beyond compliant operations for our marine customers.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in defining product strategy, driving lifecycle performance, and ensuring our offerings meet evolving customer and regulatory expectations.
You will:
- Lead the full lifecycle management of our marine environmental product portfolio, including strategy, roadmaps, prioritisation, and development planning.
- Analyse market trends, customer insights, regulatory drivers (IMO, MARPOL, Class), and competitor activity to inform product direction.
- Define product value propositions, requirements, specifications, and cost targets across standardised and bespoke solutions.
- Work closely with R&D, Engineering, Sales, Project Management, and Services to ensure product improvements and new developments meet performance, compliance, schedule, and cost objectives.
- Act as the voice of the customer throughout New Product Introduction (NPI) and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive commercial readiness activities, including pricing, documentation, training materials, and launch support.
- Review in-service product performance to identify opportunities in safety, quality, profitability, maintainability, and compliance.
- Support internal teams with product selection guidance, technical clarifications, solution configuration, and customer-specific requirements.
- Represent Wärtsilä professionally with customers, shipyards, suppliers, and classification societies.
- Travel up to 10–20% for validation, commissioning, customer visits, and product support activities.
What We’re Looking For
- A higher-level qualification (Degree/Master’s) in Engineering, Marine Technology, Environmental/Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally within the marine or industrial technology sectors.
- Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks (e.g., IMO, MARPOL, Class requirements).
- Proven ability to lead product strategy, lifecycle management, and multi-disciplinary product development initiatives.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical and commercial concepts clearly.
- Strong analytical skills and experience evaluating market, customer, and regulatory drivers.
- Experience collaborating with engineering, R&D, project, and service teams.
- Professional product management certification (AIPMM, Pragmatic Institute, or similar) is an advantage.
- Membership in relevant engineering or marine institutions is preferred.
Why join us?
- Be part of a global leader in maritime innovation and sustainability.
- Influence the strategic direction of a high-profile product portfolio with global impact.
- Work in a forward-thinking, supportive, and collaborative environment.
- Opportunities for continuous professional development and cross-functional exposure.
- Contribute to shaping cleaner, safer, and more efficient marine operations worldwide.
At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job-relevant merits and abilities.
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