Product Manager
Posted on: 5 Jan 2021
Kingsport, TN
Job Description
Responsibilities
Role Description:
The Product Manager (PM) is responsible for defining the Product Plan(s) and managing the portfolio of products that are required by the Market and Market Segment Plans (includes quality, regulatory, and supply chain cost activities).
Aligned with the market and segment plans, the Product Manager is also responsible for driving variable margin growth thru pricing and product mix optimization, maximizing asset profitability and contributing to modified operating cash flow through working capital improvements (days of inventory and days of sales outstanding).
The Product Manager is a key member of the cross functional Segment Team and will help orchestrate the building of offer elements and will monitor performance and adjust accordingly based on analytics, customer-centric recommendations, and product/asset expertise.
Responsibilities:
Develops the Product Plan(s) aligned to support the Market and Market Segment Plans.
Manages the product portfolio as assigned, both strategic and operational oversight; including: MGPP, product lifecycle, formula rationalization, and product obsolescence
Orchestrates offer execution including: pricing and contract execution (e.g., setting of price within bands, price protections, competitive price analyses, terms and conditions, etc). As required, leads development on new offer elements.
Develops and maintains asset strategy, long term supply demand outlook and manages asset allocation to deliver business results.
Champion/support continuous improvement and capital projects needed to increase capacity, increase yields, improve variable and fixed costs and/or otherwise improve the capability and profitability of our assets.
Drives efforts to increase customer loyalty by assuring product quality, regulatory, service and customer specification requirements
Oversees the development and maintenance of the fact base for assigned products - including competitive intelligence
Ensures IBP plans are executed in alignment with market, segment and product plans
Leads / coaches a team of direct reports (e.g, Pricing Managers and /or Analysts) and/or cross-functional team
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in technical or marketing discipline required.
MBA degree with an emphasis in marketing is preferred
6-10 years prior experience in sales, technical service, marketing, product management, and supply chain
Rotated through at least 1 of the following (at EMN or a prior company)
Pricing Manager
Commercial Leadership Development Program (MBA and 5 years prior work experience required)
Segment Market Manager
Eastman Chemical
Kingsport, TN
Eastman Chemical Company operates as an advanced materials and specialty additives company worldwide. The company’s Additives & Functional Products segment offers specialty coalescent, specialty and commodity solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; hydrocarbon and rosin resins; insoluble sulfur and anti-degradant rubber additives; performance resins; amine derivative-based building blocks; heat transfer and aviation fluids; organic acid-based solutions; and metam-based soil fumigants, thiram and ziram based fungicides, and plant growth regulators. It serves the transportation, consumables, building and construction, animal nutrition, crop protection, energy, personal and home care, and other markets.
Its Advanced Materials segment provides co-polyesters, cellulose esters, polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sheets, specialty PVB intermediates, and window and protective films, and aftermarket applied film products for value-added end uses in the transportation, consumables, building and construction, durable goods, and health and wellness markets. The company’s Chemical Intermediates segment offers Olefin and acetyl derivatives, ethylene, and commodity solvents; primary non-phthalate and phthalate plasticizers, and niche non- phthalate plasticizers; and methylamines and salts higher amines and solvents to the industrial chemicals and processing, building and construction, health and wellness, and agrochemicals.
Its Fibers segment provides cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, cellulose acetate flake, and acetic anhydride for use in filtration media primarily cigarette filters; natural and solution dyed acetate yarns for use in consumables, and health and wellness markets; and wet-laid nonwoven media, specialty and engineered papers, and cellulose acetate fibers for transportation, industrial, agriculture and mining, aerospace, personal hygiene, and consumables markets. Eastman Chemical Company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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IndustryConsumers goods
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No. of Employees14, 500
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