Portfolio Excellence Project Lead — Hybrid (Madrid)

Flowserve US Inc; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowserve is seeking a Portfolio Excellence Project Manager in the Madrid area to plan, coordinate and drive end-to-end projects born from our Pump and Valve Division priorities.

You will lead across a broad RACI network, maintain the integrated Master Project Plan, and ensure milestones, risks, and deliveries are on track. A hybrid work model and regular office presence in Madrid are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems or a related field.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional projects in an industrial, manufacturing, engineered-product or service environment.
• Professional fluency in English and flexibility to collaborate effectively across global teams and time zones.
• Strong experience managing integrated project schedules with multiple workstreams, dependencies, milestones and stage gates.
• Solid understanding of project-management disciplines, including scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, issue, change and stakeholder management.
• Experience preparing executive-level reporting and facilitating senior decision-making forums.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence using project-planning tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet or comparable platforms.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across functions and cultures.
• Ability to travel globally at least 50% during onboarding and ~20% thereafter.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex cross-functional projects from initiation through handover and formal closure.
• Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, milestones, governance and stage-gate requirements.
• Create and maintain the integrated project plan, including dependencies, critical path, resources and timelines.
• Establish project teams, clarify ownership through RACI and ensure effective decision-making.
• Facilitate project kick-offs, core-team meetings, risk reviews and steering committee updates.
• Coordinate activities across functions, sites, regions and legal entities.
• Identify risks, issues and delays early; drive mitigation and recovery actions.
• Maintain RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs and change-control documentation.
• Provide clear, decision-oriented status reporting to sponsors and senior leaders.
• Ensure customer, manufacturing, aftermarket, systems and compliance readiness, including complete handover and closure documentation.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

English fluency

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

Microsoft Project/Smartsheet

Communication skills

Willingness to travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Excel

Job description

Flowserve is seeking a Portfolio Excellence Project Manager in the Madrid area to plan, coordinate and drive end-to-end projects born from our Pump and Valve Division priorities.

You will lead across a broad RACI network, maintain the integrated Master Project Plan, and ensure milestones, risks, and deliveries are on track. A hybrid work model and regular office presence in Madrid are expected.