Salary: £60,000 - 75,000 per year Requirements: We require a degree in Engineering, Product Development, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. We require experience in product management, product development, engineering project management, NPI, or R&D coordination within an industrial or manufacturing environment. We require experience working within a structured product development or stage-gate process. We require experience in engineering change control, product lifecycle management, and serial product improvement activity. We require experience supporting commercial teams with technical product or application enquiries. We require experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance. We require strong organisational and governance discipline. We require strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills. We require a practical, structured, and disciplined approach. We require a commercially aware and analytically capable mindset. We require the ability to balance innovation, cost, timing, customer needs, and operational feasibility. We prefer experience in an international or group-linked environment. We value a continuous improvement mindset and a growth mindset with potential to develop into broader strategic leadership. Responsibilities: We lead our product management and development activities in line with business strategy, customer requirements, commercial priorities, and operational capability. We own and lead our product development governance framework and stage-gate process from idea generation through to launch. We manage core product engineering processes across our active product portfolio, including ECR/ECN, sales enquiry and project support, technical support, and VAVE serial development. We strengthen organisational maturity, decision discipline, and cross-functional ownership. We ensure Operations is a co-owner of readiness rather than a downstream execution function. We coordinate cross-functional activity and hold teams to agreed standards. We support business case quality, gate review readiness, launch readiness, and reduced downstream operational disruption. We drive engineering change control with impact assessment and control. We support technical and commercial validation before product commitments are made. We contribute to improving responsiveness, quotation quality, technical support closure, and recurrence reduction. We advance VAVE pipeline value and realised benefits. We challenge constructively and escalate where required to maintain strategic and commercial discipline. Technologies: Support Marketing More: We are Filtermist, officially certified as a Great Place to Work, and we foster a culture that supports career development and work-life balance. We offer an early Friday finish with condensed hours ending at 12:45 PM, tailored Personal Development Plans and peer-led Internal Masterclasses, enhanced pension support when you pay above the minimum, an additional holiday purchase scheme, and benefits including a company pension and health and wellbeing programme. This is an in-person role, and we pay £60,000 to £75,000 per year. We are a purpose-driven team committed to internal workplace culture and meaningful community initiatives. last updated 22 week of 2026