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About the Job
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.
Key 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
You bring, or can build, a strong understanding of customer needs, industry dynamics, and regulatory environments, particularly within the Food and Industrial Wastewater industries. You are comfortable working in complex industrial settings and translating market insights and technical understanding into actionable portfolio and business strategies that support growth and value creation.
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
You are a proactive and strategic leader who thrives in complex, dynamic environments where multiple priorities need to be balanced. You have a strong ability to focus on what matters most in each period, while working across a broad range of topics, from strategy and portfolio management to quality, supply chain, and competence development. You know when to take ownership and when to collaborate with others to ensure the best outcome for the portfolio.
You are a natural relationship builder who easily creates trust and alignment across a wide range of stakeholders, both within the Business Unit Water, Industrial Flow & Heat Transfer Technologies and across other business units. With a problem-solving mindset and strong focus on results, you navigate complexity with confidence and deliver measurable impact. You are known for being reliable, proactive, collaborative, courageous, altruistic, and creative.
For more information, please contact
Portfolio Management & Innovation Manager, Riccardo Romano on [email protected]
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner Europe - Food & Pharma Claus Wiinholt on [email protected]
Please send your application and resume through the link below no later than the 5th of June 2026
We are conducting a continuous review of the applications received. We do not accept applications via email, they will be deleted, due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
We care about diversity, inclusion, and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and paid holidays are standard, with options like purchasing additional PTO expanding flexibility for some roles.
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Pioneering positive impact! Our pioneering 140-year-old start-up culture is built on the idea that partnership is the key to solving complex problems and unlocking the full potential of resources. So we collaborate closely with our partners, customers, and thought leaders to create game-changing solutions that challenge conventional thinking on quality, efficiency, and innovation. United by a shared commitment to creating positive impact we’re reshaping vital industries, like energy, food, water, and shipping, to optimize efficiency, reduce emissions, and increase yields. Together, we’re building business success, elevating the quality of life across society, and driving progress towards a more sustainable world. Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of first-rate heat transfer, separation, fluid handling products separation, and fluid handling products. With these as its base, Alfa Laval aims to help enhance the productivity and competitiveness of its customers in various industries throughout the world. We define their challenges and deliver sustainable products and solutions that meet their requirements – in energy, the environment, food, and the marine industry. Alfa Laval today has customers in some 100 countries, employs more than 21,300 people, and annual sales were SEK 63.6 billion (5.5 BEUR) in 2023. The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Alfa Laval contributes to 15 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our solutions make a difference in daily life. You can learn more on our website about how our products work, and how they are used in industries worldwide. We welcome your engagement, comments and questions - our guidelines and moderation policy for Alfa Laval channels on social media can be found here: https://www.alfalaval.com/legal/community-guidelines/ Personal data will be handled in accordance with the Alfa Laval Privacy Policy. https://www.alfalaval.com/privacy
