Product Manager, Combustion Systems and Audits

Our world depends on rocks, minerals, metals and other raw materials – the building blocks of modern society. As an industry leader, Metso helps transform these essential materials to enable sustainable modern life.

Our solutions and services support everything from renewable energy and electrification to the infrastructure and digital economy shaping our future. Together, we help our customers meet growing demand while driving the industry toward a more sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources.

Join nearly 18,000 Metsonites worldwide, each bringing unique expertise and experience to positive change. At Metso, you’re supported by a growth culture built on safety, wellbeing, inclusion and collaboration.

This is your opportunity to make an impact and rise above the possible.

Job posting end date: 06/30/2026

INTRODUCTION

If you are a commercial product leader who likes turning technical equipment into profitable growth, this role gives you ownership of our combustion systems products - a high value business with clear room to grow. Metso’s burner technology fires our customers’ kilns and supports the wider thermal-processing portfolio.

This is not a maintenance role where the strategy is already fully set. Your role will develop a focused strategy to capture more of the market and exceed our customer’s needs.

THE TEAM YOU BELONG TO

You’ll join Metso’s pyro (thermal-processing) business and be part of the pyro’s leadership team, working closely with other product, sales, and engineering leaders to grow the portfolio. The role has no direct reports. Instead, you’ll lead through influence across a wider global team, to keep product development aligned to the strategy.

Our pyro team is mostly in York (USA) and High Wycombe (UK), with additional colleagues in other global locations; High Wycombe holds the largest concentration of people working on this product. Day to day you'll collaborate with engineering, sales and market-area teams, proposals, project management and marketing, so most days involve talking with people from different parts of the world.

At High Wycombe, you’ll be one of the key senior people in the office. Some colleagues there have managers based overseas, so this role naturally becomes an important local leadership presence and helps build the culture within this office.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

In your first 6 to 12 months, you'll:

• Develop a clear product strategy: choose the industries and customers worth focusing on and define how the product must adapt to win there.
• Review pricing levels across the portfolio to align with market expectations.
• Diagnose the main roadblocks to growth and build the fixes into your strategy.

Your core responsibilities include:

• Own the profitable growth of the combustion systems business, including the product development roadmap and full lifecycle management.
• Stay close enough to engineering and sales to turn customer and market input into the right product development priorities.
• Take commercial ownership of product-related decisions, including pricing, portfolio logic, installed-base tracking, competitor activity, and warranty-related topics.
• Help shape the plant audits offering as a way to showcase Metso’s expertise and position us as solution-focused.
• Deploy new products to the Market Areas with the training and support materials to land them, and focus marketing on the priorities that move the business.

WHO YOU ARE

Required qualifications:

• A commercial, sales-oriented mindset. You can take a strong product and turn it into a profitable business.
• The ability to bridge technical depth with commercial strategy.
• Around 10 years of professional experience overall, typically in a commercial, product management or technical-sales role. Some part of your background should connect to combustion systems, kilns, thermal processing or comparable industrial process equipment. You do not need to have spent your whole career in combustion, but you should understand the context well enough to follow technical discussions and speak credibly with customers and internal experts.
• Fluent English.

Preferred qualifications:

• A degree in engineering, business or a related field. An engineering background is useful, but not required if you bring the commercial capability and enough technical foundation to learn the product in depth.
• Experience with relevant customer environments, for example iron ore, pulp and paper, metal refining, industrial heat treatment or other heavy-process industries.
• Customer-facing experience in industrial services, capital equipment or technical solutions, with an appetite for change management and leading change.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

This is a role with real ownership. The product has strong fundamentals and a small share of its market, which means room to grow and the freedom to define the strategy rather than inherit one. Your work sets the direction for a business we aim to roughly double over three years, and because the burner is the commercial entry point to Metso's wider portfolio, your impact reaches well beyond a single product line.

You’ll also have a visible local role in the High Wycombe office, with real influence over how the site works and feels. International collaboration is part of the rhythm here: you'll work with colleagues and customers across several countries most weeks.

Metso is a global leader in sustainable mining and aggregates technology, with around 18,000 employees across 51 countries and the stability of an established, publicly listed company. You'll have the scale and resources of that organization behind you while working with the agility of a small, close-knit site.

Metso is committed to pay equity and transparent reward practices globally. Compensation information is shared in line with local legislation and applicable recruitment practices.
 

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Metso is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

Metso is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. We improve our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increase their productivity, and reduce environmental risks with our product and service expertise. We are the partner for positive change.

Metso is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. At the end of 2025 Metso had close to 18,000 employees in around 50 countries, and sales in 2025 were about EUR 5.3 billion. Metso is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. 

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