Strategy & Transformation Manager

Wavin; Schiphol; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wavin, part of Orbia's Water & Climate Solutions, is seeking a Strategy & Transformation Manager to translate strategic priorities into measurable results. You'll own the performance management framework, collaborating with senior leaders across regions to track progress, support investment governance, and ensure value delivery across country, BU and global levels.

This globally focused role offers hybrid work across Europe, requires travel about 10%, and provides exposure across functions,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Economics, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in strategy, transformation, PMO, or capital planning.
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and presentation skills.
• Experience creating KPI frameworks, dashboards, or performance reporting processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management across cultures and regions.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Establish and own the KPI framework for the transformation agenda across workstreams.
• Track KPIs at country, business unit and global level with quarterly reporting.
• Prepare leadership materials and analyses for decision-making.
• Support strategic planning, capital planning, and governance processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align priorities and roadmaps.
• Explain data-driven insights to senior leadership for action.

Skills

KPI frameworks

Dashboards

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Presentation skills

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Are you passionate about turning strategy into measurable business impact?

As Strategy & Transformation Manager, you will play a key role in helping Orbia Water & Climate Solutions (Wavin) translate strategic priorities into measurable results. Working closely with senior leaders across the business, you will help drive our global transformation agenda by ensuring progress is tracked, decisions are supported by data, and strategic initiatives deliver tangible value.

A core responsibility of the role is to own and continuously develop the performance management framework for our transformation agenda. You will establish and manage KPI tracking, executive reporting, performance reviews, and follow-up actions across multiple workstreams, creating a transparent and fact-based view of performance at country, business unit, and global level.

Beyond transformation performance management, you will support strategic planning and capital investment governance, providing broad exposure to the priorities that shape the future direction of the business.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work across regions, functions, and leadership teams in a highly international environment, combining strategy, transformation, investment governance, and hands‑on execution. If you enjoy connecting data, performance, and strategy to create real business impact, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

Practical Information

• Location: Flexible across Europe (hybrid), with candidates required to be located within commuting distance of a Wavin office.
• Scope: Global
• Traveling: Approximately 10% international travel

What You'll Do

Drive Transformation Performance & Governance

• Transformation KPI Framework – Establish and own the KPI framework for W&CS’s transformation agenda – defining metrics, targets, baselines and calculation standards with each Excellence workstream to ensure performance is measured consistently and comparably.
• Multi-Level KPI Tracking & Reporting – Track and report KPIs at country, Business Unit and global level, maintaining the quarterly reporting cadence and producing consolidated performance reports and roadmap updates that demonstrate progress against targets.
• Stakeholder Management & Governance – Work across global functions and regional Business Units to secure timely and accurate KPI inputs, and govern the standards, processes and reporting cadence that keep transformation reporting reliable.
• Data & Performance Insights – Source, validate, and analyse performance data from multiple systems and regions, transforming data into actionable insights, visualisations, and recommendations that support decision-making and drive continuous improvement.
• Excellence Team Partnership – Act as the central performance management partner to the Excellence teams (S&OP, Pricing, Sales Excellence, Global Marketing, AI, Customer Service and Portfolio Optimization), agreeing metric definitions, collecting results, and challenging data quality and performance gaps.

Support Strategy & Business Planning

• Strategic Planning Support – Support the strategic planning cycle by preparing analyses, materials, and inputs that help shape W&CS strategy and translate strategic priorities into measurable objectives and roadmaps.
• Cross-Functional Alignment – Collaborate with commercial, operational, and functional leaders to align priorities, assumptions, and business objectives, helping ensure strategic initiatives are translated into coordinated action plans.
• Leadership Team Meeting Preparation – Prepare leadership team materials and supporting analyses, ensuring meetings are supported by accurate, current and decision-ready content.

Support Capital Planning & Investment Governance

• Capital Planning Support – Support the capital planning process, consolidating and analysing capital requests and helping prioritize investments against strategic priorities.
• Capital Project Execution Tracking – Track execution of the capital project portfolio – milestones, spend, and benefit delivery – and proactively flag risks, delays and deviations to the strategy team and project owners.
• Investment Governance & Follow-up – Facilitate governance processes, coordinate reviews with project owners, and ensure timely follow-up on actions, risks, and key investment decisions.

What You'll Bring

Must-Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in strategy, transformation, business analysis, performance management, consulting, PMO, or capital planning.
• Advanced Excel skills, combined with strong PowerPoint and presentation skills.
• Experience creating KPI frameworks, dashboards, or performance reporting processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships across cultures, regions, and functions, influence without direct authority, and communicate effectively with senior leadership.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to turn complex data into clear insights and actionable recommendations.
• Experience within manufacturing, industrial, or other complex multinational environments.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

We Will Be Particularly Interested If You Have

• Experience applying AI, automation, or advanced analytics to drive business transformation, improve decision-making, and enhance organizational performance.
• Experience with Power BI or similar business intelligence and reporting tools
• Exposure to strategic planning, capital planning, or governance processes.
• Additional languages such as Spanish or Portuguese

Why Join Us?

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at the intersection of strategy, transformation, and business performance. You'll work closely with senior leaders, influence critical business decisions, and gain exposure across the global Wavin and Orbia organization. For ambitious professionals, it offers an excellent platform for future growth into leadership roles across Strategy, Operations, Transformation, or General Management.

Wavin, Orbia’s Water & Climate Solutions business, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 70 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by ensuring safe and efficient water supply, sanitation and hygiene, climate-resilient cities, and better building performance. Wavin has over 10,000 employees across more than 40 production sites worldwide, serving customers in over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, and Plastigama Wavin.

Wavin, Orbia’s Water & Climate Solutions business is committed to inclusive hiring. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, background, sexual orientation, disability or any other characteristic.