What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Pharmaceutical SME position at Flowserve Corporation?
Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Regulatory Expert will provide industry-informed and regulatory-body expertise, market insight, manufacturing expectations, and customer credibility to support Flowserve’s pharmaceutical growth initiative.
This role will lead pharmaceutical market strategy, cultivate strategic relationships across global pharmaceutical manufacturers and bioprocess OEMs, and translate rigorous pharmaceutical-market requirements into commercial and product priorities.
Serving as a key technical authority across life sciences manufacturing, clean-in-place/steam-in-place (CIP/SIP) applications, and cGMP compliance, this subject matter expert drives market readiness, regulatory alignment, and technology adoption across Flowserve’s global customer base.
Ideal candidates bring extensive experience with a regulatory body, health authority, notified body, or senior regulatory-quality leadership role involving pharmaceutical manufacturing, inspection readiness, quality systems, validation, supplier expectations, and regulatory engagement.
Responsibilities
Req ID : R-21040
Job Family Group : Sales
Job Family : SA Business Development
EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Regulatory Expert will provide industry-informed and regulatory-body expertise, market insight, manufacturing expectations, and customer credibility to support Flowserve’s pharmaceutical growth initiative.
This role will lead pharmaceutical market strategy, cultivate strategic relationships across global pharmaceutical manufacturers and bioprocess OEMs, and translate rigorous pharmaceutical-market requirements into commercial and product priorities.
Serving as a key technical authority across life sciences manufacturing, clean-in-place/steam-in-place (CIP/SIP) applications, and cGMP compliance, this subject matter expert drives market readiness, regulatory alignment, and technology adoption across Flowserve’s global customer base.
Ideal candidates bring extensive experience with a regulatory body, health authority, notified body, or senior regulatory-quality leadership role involving pharmaceutical manufacturing, inspection readiness, quality systems, validation, supplier expectations, and regulatory engagement.
Responsibilities
- Voice of the Customer: Serve as the primary voice of the customer, translating pharmaceutical application, quality, regulatory, and operational requirements into actionable business and product development priorities.
- Regulatory Guidance: Advise cross-functional engineering, sales, and operations teams on pharmaceutical and regulatory-body expectations, including cGMP, validation, supplier qualification, documentation, traceability, quality-system maturity, regulatory risk considerations, and change control.
- Commercialization & Product Strategy: Provide critical input to product-development roadmaps and commercialization plans based on customer feedback, market trends, and launch-readiness requirements.
- Market Execution: Develop and implement targeted market strategies for pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and bioprocess applications.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and nurture strategic relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers, drug-development laboratories, bioprocess OEMs, skid integrators, universities, and industry partners.
- Technical Evaluations: Support customer trials, technical evaluations, reference installations, industry conferences, and global roadshows.
- Cross-Functional Go-to-Market: Partner with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Marketing to develop go-to-market plans, sales enablement materials, and customer-value propositions.
- Market & Competitive Intelligence: Conduct competitive benchmarking and market analyses to identify emerging growth opportunities, target segments, priority accounts, and strategic partners.
- Channel & OEM Development: Support OEM and channel partner development, focusing on early design-in opportunities and partner qualification.
- Executive Alignment: Communicate strategic priorities, progress, risks, and recommendations directly to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, or a related field required. Advanced degree (Master's, MS, PhD) or equivalent relevant experience preferred.
Req ID : R-21040
Job Family Group : Sales
Job Family : SA Business Development
EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.