Project Manager – Connected Products Development
Location: Cheltenham, UK or Bremen, Germany The Role The Project Manager – Connected Products Development drives the effective delivery of connected product programmes by aligning physical product development (hardware, firmware, sensors) with digital service development (cloud, data, software platforms) following the NPI process. You will ensure hardware and software activities are planned, synchronised, and executed coherently, with a strong focus on interfaces, dependencies, and system-level risks. Acting as a key interface between international hardware/software teams and UK-based digital services teams, you will play a critical role in enabling scalable, future-ready connected solutions. Key Responsibilities * Lead and coordinate cross-domain projects spanning hardware, firmware, and digital services, delivering to agreed scope, quality, and timelines. * Maintain an integrated view of product and digital roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and risks. * Manage the interface between physical products and digital services, ensuring clear definition of requirements, constraints, and impacts. * Identify and manage cross-team dependencies and critical path activities, mitigating risks proactively. * Drive structured project planning, governance, status tracking, and reporting. * Facilitate cross-functional reviews and alignment meetings, ensuring transparency and shared ownership. * Act as a key interface with engineering leads, product management, and stakeholders, providing system-level insight. Your Experience * Proven experience as a Project Manager or Technical Program Manager delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives within hardware, software, or connected products environments. * Solid understanding of physical product development, alongside knowledge of cloud-based systems, APIs, and data flows. * Experience working across geographically distributed teams. Your Skills * Ability to bridge technical and business discussions and communicate complex topics clearly. * Strong analytical and system-level thinking, with confidence to challenge assumptions. * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. * Structured, proactive approach with strong ownership and accountability. The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra. Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies. Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food \& Beverage, Pharmaceutical \& Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones! Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included. Benefits You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below. Everyone is Included at Spirax Group We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique. We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working. We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments . We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.