Product Manager – Specialist, Valves

Flowserve Corporation

Product Manager overseeing Product Management activities for Specialty Ball and Plug Valve at Flowserve. Responsible for product strategy, commercialization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeHouston • Tennessee, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Implement global product strategies and develop product roadmaps in alignment with the Global Product Manager
Provide strategic direction and take ownership of cross-functional initiatives
Create strategic cross functional collaboration with Sales, Operations, Engineering
Conduct Voice of Customer (VOC) and Customer product meetings
Bring new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; support return-on-investment analysis; establishing time schedules with engineering and manufacturing
Collaborate with R&D project manager and engineering leaders, ensuring deliverables completion and removing barriers
Support product commercialization of the portfolio globally
Drive product globalization activities, including supply chain and manufacturing localization to support the global business
Introduce and market new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production
Forecast, refine and track product financials for the region and take actions to align them to the product budget
Serve as key information source for marketing, product development, and other decision makers in the organization
Provide information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analysis.
Assess product market data: Call on customers with field sales and evaluating sales call results
Assess competitive landscape
Use strategic market knowledge tools
Support product pricing, review production volume and sales costs
Collaborate with Marketing on defining and creating all needed product literature and documentation including web site content and social media campaigns.
Periodically visits (with Regional Sales) customer sites to establish and maintain relationships with key customer contacts thus maintaining a deep technical intimacy with all aspects of the product and its application.
Assist in all necessary training in local region, subregion: customers, engineering, repair centers, sales force, field service etc.
Coordinates with the Educational Services Group as required.
Provide tactical sales support as necessary.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong customer-driven approach
Emotionally intelligent leader and collaborator with ability to influence team members at all levels of the organization, solve complex problems, and resolve conflicts
Innovative mindset, with eagerness to cultivate “outside-the-box” thinking across the team
Great prioritization skills and sense of urgency, as well as good time management with ability to effectively work with people in different time zones
Clear communicator and strategy thinker. Able to get to the “so what” points while keeping the audience engaged
Ability to adopt to different market segments (Power, Chemical, O&G, Energy Transition etc)
Technical expertise on Valves and Actuators is a plus
Former experience in a Ball Valves or Plug Valve company is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive pay
annual bonuses
medical benefits on day 1
generous paid vacation time
paid holidays
401(k)
many other excellent benefits!

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Hard Skills & Tools

product strategyproduct roadmap developmentreturn-on-investment analysisproduct commercializationfinancial forecastingmarket data assessmentproduct pricingtechnical expertise in valvesproduct developmentcross-functional collaboration

Soft Skills

customer-driven approachemotional intelligencecollaborationproblem-solvingconflict resolutioninnovative mindsetprioritizationtime managementclear communicationstrategic thinking