Global Market Manager Power Generation (m/f/d)

CIRCOR International is a global provider of mission-critical flow control products and services for industrial and aerospace and defense markets. The Global Market Manager will lead the global Power Generation market across industrial pumps and valves, developing OEM strategies, identifying emerging and renewable energy opportunities, building pipelines, and coordinating growth across regions and business units.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute global OEM account plans
• Own specification strategy across major customer platforms
• Deploy global OEM engagement playbook
• Establish CIRCOR as preferred technical partner in customers’ subsystems
• Identify and prioritize growth opportunities in renewable power generation (e.g., hydrogen, solar thermal, geothermal, bioenergy), energy transition applications (e.g., carbon capture, grid stability systems) or new power architectures (e.g., decentralized generation, hybrid systems)
• Assess market attractiveness, application requirements, and competitive landscape
• Define entry strategies and target accounts
• Build pipeline of early-stage opportunities and partnerships
• Align activities across business units and regions, and ensure transparency around account/opportunity plans and roadmaps
• Ensure structured global coverage and opportunity ownership
• Drive cross-region collaboration and visibility
• Identify white spaces and new applications for pumps & valves
• Translate market developments into clear opportunity funnels
• Translate voice of customer (VoC) from customers into product requirements and collaborate with product management to influence product roadmaps
• Define application-specific value propositions
• Drive conversions from opportunity to spec-in to project pipeline and revenue, as well as from new application opportunity to first win and scaled adoption
• Replicate successes across OEM platforms, new power systems and regions
• Support critical pursuits and early-stage engagements
• Build relationships with decision makers at OEMs (engineering, sourcing, strategy, management)
• Act as internal integrator across Sales, Engineering, Product Management and Marketing

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering and/or related field
• 10+ years of experience in industrial B2B markets for rotating equipment, valves or power generation and energy transition equipment
• Proven experience in market management, market development or product-market roles, engagement with OEMs and/or specification-driven sales environments
• Solid knowledge of Power Generation market, including value chains in conventional and renewable power generation markets
• Experience working in a global or multi-regional role with cross-functional coordination
• Strong understanding of specification-driven business models and OEM engagement processes
• Fluent in English
• Strong strategic and analytical mindset with the ability to define and execute global market strategies and translate insights into actionable growth initiatives
• Proven ability to drive alignment and collaborate effectively across global matrix organizations without direct authority
• Strong combination of technical expertise and commercial acumen in complex industrial environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a self-driven and results-oriented approach in dynamic and ambiguous environments
• Exposure to renewable energy or energy transition applications is an advantage
• additional languages are an advantage