Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we are delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.
With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.
Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with a global reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we are always looking for top talent ready to bring their best. Come grow with us!
Responsibilities:
Global Forecast Management
- Work with global commercial team to set up and complete annual business planning
- Update 5 year forecast quarterly and update visualization charts/tables for commercial team accordingly
- Monthly actual sales and 3-month forecast update
- Actual price update
- Participate opportunities review, understand the program status and update opportunities accordingly to reflect the latest update
- Maintain the global master strategy file including all program details with both current and new opportunities update
- With vehicle powertrain data, understand the connection between vehicle and engine model/platform, work with commercial team to obtain information for mapping the data with our current business
- Identify next generation vehicle/engine model and programs/platform (for the next 5 years) which will support our future business strategy
- Support other teams with data/forecast in a timely manner
Capacity Management
- Monthly/quarterly track and update capacity charts using updated global forecast file
Market Size Analysis
- Monthly global vehicle forecast/charts data, market trend update
- Attend monthly webinars and summarize the info and share with team
- Market research regarding the global market trend, global and regional regulation requirements, competitor product info, new tech requirements
- Update global market size, understand Alkegen share and competitor share in the market
Qualifications required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other technical degree is required, experience with commercial team/program management is a plus
- Experience in manufacturing environment preferred, automotive industry preferred
- Experience managing large and complex sets of data is necessary, along with the ability to partner with multiple stakeholders across all regions of the world
- Experience working within a cross-functional team with interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to work in culturally diverse cross-functional teams across business units
- Must be expert in Microsoft Excel including data pivots and complex manipulation using functions
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Must be detail-oriented, pay strong attention to details and maintain data accuracy
- Experience extracting and loading data from ERP systems such as SAP
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Experience with visualization tools and reporting, such as Power BI or Tableau
- Passion for data driven decision making
- Be proactive, self-directed and goal-oriented
- Ability to react quickly to a fast-paced market, capable of handling multiple priorities
Other Duties / Quantitative Dimensions:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may vary at any time.
At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people – ALL PEOPLE – breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation, and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.
Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or other technical degree
- Experience with commercial team or program management
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
- Automotive industry experience
- Experience managing large and complex datasets
- Expert-level Microsoft Excel skills including pivots and complex functions
- Experience extracting and loading data from ERP systems such as SAP
- Experience with visualization tools and reporting (Power BI or Tableau)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working within cross-functional and culturally diverse teams
- Detail-oriented with strong attention to data accuracy
- Proactive, self-directed, able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced market
Alkegen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair or strong in several roles and locations, with mentions of great pay and fair pay for the job. Competitive hourly operator wages and overtime opportunities in some sites reinforce this perception.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid sick days are available, with some salaried roles offering manager‑approved unlimited time off. These elements indicate broad time‑off options across the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match, in some cases with immediate vesting, is part of the offering. This reflects structured retirement support across many roles.
Alkegen Insights
What We Do
Alkegen is a specialty materials leader serving mission-critical systems that the world is focused on for the future, including: battery technologies, electric vehicles, filtration media, and specialty insulation materials that enable customers to reduce fossil fuel consumption, save energy, and live greener. We help people breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. Our experience speaks for itself. Bringing together two of the world’s leaders in specialty materials, Unifrax and Lydall, Alkegen is a leader in innovation. We are a vertically integrated manufacturer with the global reach and talent to solve your most demanding applications. With 60 manufacturing facilities and 9,000+ highly skilled employees located around the world, we can solve any challenge. Dedicated to sustainability and human health, we are uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways. We are Alkegen.
