Global Product Manager – Wet End

Role Overview

• Shape and execute the global wet end product strategy in line with Paper & Board Product Group business priorities.
• Strengthen competitiveness, market share, profitability, and lifecycle value for our customers.
• Lead product development, standardization, cost optimization, and service strategy together with global stakeholders.
• Turn product, market, customer, and competitor insights into clear priorities and new business opportunities.
• Enable sales, order execution, quality, marketing, and technology teams with the right product expertise, tools, training, and customer feedback.
• Build alignment across global teams and drive excellent product decisions in the spirit of #1ANDRITZway.

Requirements

• A university degree in paper technology, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong expertise in wet end technologies, paper technology, and the paper or board industry.
• Extensive professional experience in product development, cost optimization, and value-based product management, gained through specialist, product management, business development, or similar roles.
• Experience working in global matrix organizations and collaborating effectively across functions, regions, and cultures.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to advocate for ideas, challenge assumptions, and drive strategic decisions through expertise and sound judgment.
• A strategic, business-oriented mindset combined with a hands-on approach to solving complex challenges and identifying growth opportunities.
• Interest in innovation-driven and agile ways of working, such as outcome-driven innovation, design thinking, or Scrum.
• A structured, collaborative, and solution-oriented working style, with the ability to build trust, align stakeholders, and deliver results in a complex environment.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required (up to 50%).
• Fluent professional English skills, both written and spoken.

Benefits

• A global product leadership role where your decisions influence the future of wet end technologies.
• Worldwide collaboration with skilled colleagues across technology, sales, service, marketing, project execution, and regions.
• The opportunity to grow by combining technical depth, customer understanding, and strategic product management.
• A chance to think ahead, shape industries, and create what’s next together with ANDRITZ.