IMI
Portfolio Leader – Commercial Buildings (EU Remote)
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Portfolio Leader – Commercial Buildings (EU Remote)
Global Strategic Product Manager – Commercial Buildings (Climate Control)
IMI plc | Climate Control Sector
About IMI plc
We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions to tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to engineer a lasting future by solving problems for businesses and everyday life—drive innovation for impact.
We design, build, and service specialised products in fluid and motion control applications, serving five key sectors:
- Industrial Automation
- Process Automation
- Climate Control (hydraulic solutions for water-based heating and cooling systems)
- Life Science
- Fluid Control
- Transport
Our Climate Control division has powered over 100,000 building projects worldwide with three core offerings:
- Pressure maintenance and water quality
- Regulation, control, and actuators
- Thermostatic control
Role Overview
This high-impact opportunity is part of IMI’s Global Climate Control Sector (£400m+ revenue), hiring across Europe with a flexible remote work option (provided the candidate resides in a country where IMI has a presence).
Key Accountability
You’ll shape the commercial strategy, product direction, and market expansion for IMI’s Commercial Buildings Portfolio, collaborating with: ✔ Manufacturing teams ✔ Sourcing and engineering/R&D ✔ C-level executives and sales leaders
Primary goals:
- Portfolio leadership: Execute growth strategies to maximise organic revenue and market share.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Bridge technology and customer needs in alignment with sector requirements.
- Strategic ownership: Define target markets, develop roadmaps, and drive profitability through disciplined decision-making.
This excites commercial leaders, innovators, and transformational thinkers ready to outperform the market.
What You’ll Do
1. Strategy & Portfolio Execution
- Define and execute a high-growth Commercial Buildings strategy, balancing financial returns with long-term market alignment.
- Conduct proactive competitive and market analysis to spot emerging opportunities.
- Apply core marketing frameworks: segmentation, targeting, positioning, value management, and pricing optimisation.
- Contribute to sector-wide strategy and commercial plans, including budget shaping and roadmapping.
- Lead Product Development: Align new products with customer demand alongside R&D, supplier teams, and Sales, ensuring scalable, profitable innovation.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
2. Portfolio Lifecycle Management
- Own the commercial positioning of the portfolio, ensuring market differentiation.
- Oversee the full product lifecycle: from ideation/launch to maturation and phase-out.
- Dynamic roadmap management: Collaborate with regional teams to ensure new products align with customer willingness to pay.
- Apply portfolio vitality techniques (80/20 rule) to streamline offerings, prioritising high-growth solutions.
- Develop and implement data-driven pricing strategies, adjusted regionally and by channel.
3. Offering and Market Leadership
- Translate technical innovation into clear, customer-facing value propositions—acting as the bridge between Engineering and Sales.
- Lead product launches with Customer Marketing and Sales to ensure maximum market adoption.
- Improve Voice of Customer (VoC) initiatives: Capture insights from field teams and integrate feedback into strategy.
- Develop sales enablers: Shop-floor materials, pricing analysis, and Go-To-Market tools to accelerate customer orders.
- Drive portfolio financial results: Focus on revenue growth, gross margin, and end-of-life portfolio simplification.
What You Bring
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or relevant equivalent work experience; EMBA/MBA preferred).
Experience & Skills
Strategic & Portfolio Expertise
- 5+ years in product management, product development, or B2B commercial leadership, preferably in engineered-industrial markets (machinery, automation, fluid systems, etc.).
- Strong RFP/broker engagement experience and ability to influence at regional and senior leadership levels.
Core Competencies
- Sharp commercial acumen: Experience growing product portfolios with measurable ROI growth.
- Customer obsession: Passion for solving market pain points and driving adoption in complex selling cycles.
- Strategic contingency planning: Agile mindset to pivot mid-project based on market trends.
- Executive presentation skills: Ability to articulate data-driven decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Cross-functional alignment: Comfortable negotiating with Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Operations.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Personal Traits
- Thrives in a high-paced, dynamic environment with clear prioritisation.
- Strong teamplayer: Refreshingly direct in feedback without spectre-getting.
- Globally aware of local market needs while delivering coherent strategies.
Why Join IMI?
Ambition & Innovation
- Contribute directly to growing IMI Climate Control—a £400m sector leading in eco-conscious technologies.
- Join a 10,000+ global team operating in 50+ countries, accelerating your career in a scalable environment.
Impact & Recognition
- Your work will transform buildings worldwide for better efficiency.
- Shape a sustainable future industry standard—leading energy-efficient HVAC.
- Access diverse career growth through divisional and Group-wide development programmes.
Education Opportunity
- Participate in high-value strategic training initiatives.
Professional Values
- Dedicated to inclusion: IMI fosters a diverse and welcoming workplace.
- Strong ethical culture: Commitment to IMI’s Code of Responsible Business.
Compensation & Wellbeing
- Attractive package including base salary, benefits, and performance-linked incentives.
- Holistic support tailored to physical and mental wellbeing.
Health, Safety & Environment Commitment
The role requires impactful decision-making with occasional strategic travel and fundamental business-betterment priorities. All employees must:
- Actively adhere to Health and Safety policies.
- Obey operating procedures—reporting hazards without hesitation.
- Promote knowledge of Global Policies through mandatory training and transparent processes.
Code of Ethics
IMI upholds the highest ethical standard in all our interactions—within customers, partners, and regulators. Alignment with IMI Way: Code of Responsible Business.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are an equal-opportunity employer. Candidates selected will reflect the variety of talent and experiences from our global community.
One question? Chat with a real person.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills