Eastman Chemical Company

Product Manager

Eastman Chemical Company$110K — $130K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business field required.
  • MBA preferred for enhanced strategic insight.
  • 6-10 years of experience in sales, marketing, product management, or supply chain.
  • Must have rotated through roles in pricing, segment market management, or product management at EMN or similar organizations.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities necessary.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product and portfolio strategy development within a cross-functional team.
  • Develop product line strategies to maximize margin growth and adapt to market changes.
  • Manage asset choices to align with market growth strategies and evaluate financial returns.
  • Conduct competitive intelligence analysis to inform product positioning and strategy.
  • Champion continuous improvement initiatives for asset capability and profitability enhancement.
  • Enhance customer loyalty through effective quality assurance and regulatory compliance.
  • Ensure integrated business planning aligns with market, segment, and product strategies.

Benefits

  • Collaborative and cross-functional team environment.
  • Opportunity to work on strategic market growth initiatives.
  • Access to continuous improvement projects for professional development.
  • Involvement in product quality assurance and regulatory processes.
  • Supportive culture aiming for full employee potential engagement.
Full Job Description
Role Profile

Develops product strategy and drives operational results through management of the product portfolio by ensuring maximum return on assets and total margin realization. Identifies the highest margin growth segments and products to define, develop and deliver product strategies and tactics that produce profitable growth, while addressing segment plans.

The position is aligned within the Cellulosics team, but is a key member across several Plastics market segments.

Operational oversight includes pricing, contracts, quality, regulatory, manufacturing and supply chain cost improvement activities. Accountable for the activities within assigned products to deliver results within established strategies, including offer development, execution, management and adjustments as needed. Working with the appropriate cross functional team, the Product Manager is responsible for driving margin growth through product mix optimization, pricing, and maximizing asset profitability. The Product Manager also leads the cross-functional team responsible for executing the offer(s), tracking how well actual results, service levels and prices match the segment plan, and suggesting adjustments to be taken to close any gaps. The Product Manager will support customer engagements and collaborates across technology to develop new products to serve segment strategy needs.

Responsibilities

  • Leader of the product and portfolio strategy development, communication, and management in the context of a cross functional business team
  • Develops comprehensive product line strategies that maximize margin growth, developments growth opportunities and mitigates product lifecycle changes
  • Develops and maintains asset choices with cross functional team in support of market growth strategies and evaluates financial returns and manages asset allocation to deliver business results.
  • Leads competitive intelligence efforts involving business, sales, strategy, pricing, manufacturing, and technology; includes spanning markets, gathering, constructing, synthesizing, and analyzing key competitors and products including assets, capacities, utilization, cost base and strategies.
  • 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
  • Ensures IBP plans are executed in alignment with market, segment and product plans


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in technical or business discipline required.
  • MBA degree is preferred
  • 6-10 years prior experience in sales, technical service, strategy, operations, marketing, product management, and supply chain
  • Rotated through at least 1 of the following (at EMN or a prior company)
    • Pricing Manager
    • Segment Market Manager
    • Product Manager


Required Functional Competencies

  • Strong analytical skills and excellent numerical abilities
  • Strategic thinking and ability to translate effectively to execution planning
  • Manage execution of strategy through and with others
  • Strong financial focus and acumen to drive profitable choices
  • Demonstrated experience solving complex business problems
  • Strong system and data analytics tools and acumen to make informed decisions
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary and international teams
  • Good communication skills
  • Commercial mindset (customer centric)


Interested?

For further information about this position please contact Bruno Giampietro (General Manager) or Tim Wheeler (Talent Acquisition) or send your application via the apply button.

Eastman is committed to creating a highly engaged workforce, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.

About Eastman Chemical Company

Eastman Chemical Company (Eastman) is a global specialty chemicals company that produces a range of advanced materials, chemicals and fibers that are found in products people use every day. Eastman has over 40 manufacturing sites in 16 countries and equity interests in joint ventures that supply chemicals, plastics, and fibers products to customers throughout the world. Eastman has a portfolio of specialty businesses that hold positions and provide products that enhance performance in a variety of end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. Eastman management believes that the Company's end-market diversity is a source of strength, as these markets are benefiting from longer-term global trends such as energy efficiency, a rising middle class in emerging economies, and increased health and wellness. On July 2, 2012, the Company completed its acquisition of Solutia Inc. (Solutia).

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Learn more about Eastman Chemical Company
Size
14,000 employees
Market Cap
$9.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$478 million
Founded
1920
5 Year Trend
+3.1%
Revenue
$8.4 billion
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