Portfolio Strategy Regional Manager

As a member of the Regional Protective Platform team, Protective & Marine Coatings, you will lead a team of regional product managers by establishing initiatives that align with PMC’s strategies for our product portfolio range. The Regional Portfolio Strategy Manager owns the management respective of product and new product development (NPD) portfolios, to include product life cycles, increase range complexity and support growth in core base business and priority segments. You will report to the Regional Protective Platform Director.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Regional Product Strategy according to the Global Business Platform and Global Product Strategy.
• Accomplish global product line strategies within region, by providing governance and oversight to regional product managers.
• Critical interface between R&D, segment and commercial teams to lead agreement and set priorities.
• Support segment managers and commercial teams during main customer discussions to assess needs from industry experts, collect informal voice of customer and share critical product characteristics.
• Lead the regional NPD portfolio by product category - guide decisions for prioritization and resource commitment.
• Update all supporting documentation for products in respective categories. Implement the best Change Management actions.
• Develop product life cycle optimization (product launch to elimination).
• Develop Regional Product Strategy according to the Global Business Platform and Global Product Strategy.
• Accomplish global product line strategies within region, by providing governance and oversight to regional product managers.
• Critical interface between R&D, segment and commercial teams to lead agreement and set priorities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, chemistry, business, or related degree. Eight years of applicable business experience.
• Minimum of five years’ management experience. Experience in management of people and an understanding of complex structures to affect change, improve processes, and find solutions that improve results.
• Experience defining and tracking metrics that measure the success of products.
• Process oriented with the ability to simplify complexity from processes to be more agile.
• Business and technical acumen which demonstrates the ability to define market shifts and needs to stay ahead of the market.
• U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply

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