General Manager, WI Transport, Custom Pump

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the full P&L for the Custom Pump business, including orders, revenue, profitability, backlog quality, and cash flow.
• Drive annual operating plans, strategic planning processes, and business performance rhythms.
• Provide clear, structured updates to senior leadership on financial performance, risks, opportunities, and mitigation actions.
• Translate business strategy into actionable priorities, performance metrics, and execution plans.
• Define and execute the global strategy for the Custom Pump business, including market prioritization, growth initiatives, and capability development.
• Lead global business reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise and regional strategies.
• Partner closely with global teams, including India, to strengthen growth, cost competitiveness, and execution capability.
• Support key pursuits and enable cross-regional collaboration to capture opportunistic growth.
• Lead commercial strategy across pipeline development, opportunity prioritization, pricing discipline, and order conversion.
• Engage directly with key customers, partners, and channels to strengthen Xylem’s market position and accelerate growth.
• Support the pursuit and closure of large, complex, project-based opportunities.
• Ensure disciplined execution across all customer orders, including forecasting accuracy, risk management, and on-time delivery.
• Drive strong project governance through regular review mechanisms that align timelines, budgets, procurement plans, and operational readiness, while identifying and resolving risks early.
• Partner across commercial, engineering, and operations teams to deliver high-quality customer outcomes.
• Continuously improve execution discipline, backlog conversion, and customer communication.
• Guide product and application strategy, including portfolio direction, lifecycle management, and solution positioning.
• Support new product introduction and application-specific solution development aligned to market and customer needs.
• Integrate customer and market insights into product and business decisions to improve competitiveness.
• Partner with operations and supply chain teams to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.
• Build the capabilities needed to support assembly, testing, and delivery of Custom Pump solutions aligned with business requirements.
• Leverage global manufacturing capabilities, including India, to improve execution of global projects and increase competitiveness.
• Support the continued development of Pewaukee as a center of excellence for Flygt / BABA submersible pump assembly and testing.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
• Work Location: Full-time onsite leadership role based in Xylem’s Pewaukee, Wisconsin facility.
• Starting Pay: Dependent on multiple factors, such as skills, experience and work location, and is not typically at the top of the range.
• Benefits: Competitive compensation package with a generous benefit package, including Medical, Dental, Vision plans, 401(k) with company contribution, paid time off, paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement.

Benefits

• Join the global Xylem team to be a part of innovative technology solutions transforming water usage, conservation, and re-use.
• Products Impact: Public utilities, industrial sectors, residential areas, and commercial buildings, with a commitment to providing smart metering, network technologies, and advanced analytics for water, electric, and gas utilities.
• Volunteer Program: Xylem Watermark.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERG): Promotes inclusion and belonging.
• EEO & Affirmative Action: Equal Employment Opportunity (including disability and veterans).