Product Manager

Location: UK or Europe 

Salary range: £65,000-£75,000 plus equity & benefits (comparable salaries outside of the UK) 

About Puraffinity

We are an energetic, customer-driven advanced materials science company focused on designing, developing, and manufacturing smart engineered adsorbent to capture and retain PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) from water across the Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Municipal market sectors.

Based in London – UK, Puraffinity was founded in 2015 and since then has become a leading organization in tackling PFAS, commonly known as The Forever Chemicals, due to its resistance and high mobility.

Our Vision is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030, and our Mission is to protect environmental and human health by engineering precision materials to capture chemicals in water.

Puraffinity embraces diversity and fosters a collaborative and teamworking environment, and we dedicate 100% of our time to create a purposeful and sustainable environmental impact.

The Opportunity

The Product Manager reports to the VP of Commercial as part of the commercial team.

You will play a pivotal role by leading the company’s product roadmap, tracking the regulatory landscape on a global basis, performing competitive and market intelligence initiatives, conducting market analysis to identify growth opportunities within market segments, identifying new growth areas and developing market entry strategies.

You will drive business growth by managing the company’s Market Intel, identifying new solutions matching the market needs, and liaising across the Commercial, Product Development, Operations, and Financial departments.

If you are comfortable working through ambiguity and can demonstrate good judgement under pressure combined with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you.

This role requires product management experience within the water industry, so we are happy to consider candidates based in the UK and Europe. The role will require travel.

What you'll be doing

Identify new business opportunities to generate revenue, improve profitability and support Puraffinity’s business growth strategies.

Develops and manages product roadmap, from concept through sun-setting and/or conversion. Identifies opportunities for process/business improvement to drive efficiency and results.

Develop formal insights into the market - trends, market analysis, SWOT, competitive review, pricing, and customer buyer behaviour.

Identify target market segments, segment sizing and ideal customer targets, and design forward-thinking positioning approaches for the various market segments of Puraffinity services.

Define messaging and value propositions and be accountable for the overall go-to-market plan, including revenue forecasts, adoption goals, pricing strategy, and service strategy.

Create the product strategy for new products and services that appeal to unique needs and requirements of prospects and customers.

Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution.

Develop a clear market entry strategy and commercialization process to ensure success at all levels, internally and externally.

Support the design and execution of sales channel plans and go-to-market actions, including developing sales enablement tools and methodologies.

Experience and behaviours

Product management experience across the water-tech, clean-tech or deep-tech space.

Experience building business cases, analytics and reporting, market trends/analysis, competition analysis, positioning, business modelling, and product road-map development.

Ability to communicate, work collaboratively and motivate others in a team-based environment.

Customer-face experience is required.

Proven project management experience. 

Ideally, degree qualified in Engineering, Chemistry, or other scientific discipline.

A good balance between strategic thinking and execution.

Results driven.

Problem solving.

Data Analysis and Project Management.

Time management and organisational skills

Embrace change and innovation.

Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills.

Positive, ‘’can do’’ attitude.

Team player. Collaborative with a team-first mentality

Puraffinity Benefits

We offer great benefits: Vitality Private Health and Dental Care, enhanced pension employer contribution scheme (up to 7.5%), and mental health coaching and support by Spill.

We offer shares in Puraffinity for all employees, which means you get recognised and rewarded for your work.

We care about your learning and development and to support this we have a generous training budget for personal development (up to £2,000 per year).

A work life balance is important – we offer 25 days annual leave (in addition to the 8 bank holidays) and a hybrid working approach.

We have a very strong diversity and inclusion focus, and in line with this, we have equalised our parental leave and pay for all.