Powder Product Manager

Role details

The Product Manager - Powder Technology is responsible for driving the strategic growth, innovation, profitability, and lifecycle management of the powder coatings portfolio across the United States and Canada. This role serves as the bridge between market needs, customer requirements, technical capabilities, and business objectives, translating market insights into product strategies, innovation priorities, and commercialization plans that deliver sustainable growth and competitive advantage.

The position leads the development and execution of regional product strategies, manages the innovation pipeline through Stage Gate processes, and provides portfolio direction to optimize product performance, simplify complexity, improve profitability, and support operational effectiveness. Working closely with sales, marketing, technical, operations, supply chain, finance, and segment leaders, the Product Manager ensures resources are aligned to the highest value opportunities, and that new products, platform enhancements, and lifecycle initiatives are successfully commercialized.

As a strategic leader and technology subject matter expert, this role influences business decisions through data-driven recommendations, business case development, portfolio analysis, and market intelligence. The Product Manager also leads cross-functional teams and stakeholders to drive accountability, accelerate execution, manage change, and ensure product investments support regional growth, customer success, regulatory requirements, and long-term business objectives. This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company’s applicable plans.

This position is eligible for health benefits, such as medical, dental and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), disability coverage, security, retirement and saving benefits. Additional benefits include a generous time away from work package, including personal leave, paid parental leave, medical leave, vacation, and holidays. This position does require 20-25% travel. The role is accountable for the following responsibilities for powder technology in the United States and Canada region: 1.

USCA Product Strategy and Market Alignment Develop and maintain a USCA strategy for powder technology, including portfolio priorities, market positioning, competitive differentiation, lifecycle planning, and emerging technology assessments. Aggregate, harmonize, and manage segment and customer needs across the United States and Canada, ensuring alignment with divisional strategy, technical capability, investment priorities, and commercial objectives. Use voice of customer, voice of market, competitor intelligence, regulatory trends, operational capability, and sales input to identify market needs and translate them into actionable product strategy.

Partner with segment, sales, technical, operations, and commercial leaders to establish priorities and make trade-off recommendations that improve growth, profitability, speed to market, and customer impact. 2. Innovation Pipeline and Stage Gate Leadership Build and manage the USCA innovation pipeline for the assigned technology by converting customer needs, market trends, competitive gaps, and technical opportunities into qualified development projects. Lead or support the Stage Gate process to accelerate new product development, regional product transfers, product upgrades, and commercialization activities.

Develop business cases for innovation and product development, including market need, customer value, revenue potential, margin impact, investment requirements, timing, risks, and success metrics. Vet assumptions and product development requests from segment, sales, and technical partners to ensure projects are prioritized based on strategic fit, regional value, feasibility, and customer relevance. 3. Portfolio and Platform Lifecycle Management Manage the product and platform lifecycle for the assigned technology within USCA, including new product introduction, product refresh, rationalization, discontinuation, technical transfer, and portfolio simplification.

Drive improvement in product cost, working capital, SKU productivity, inventory levels, raw material basket complexity, and operational effectiveness through active portfolio management. Analyze USCA product portfolios across focus markets to identify gaps, duplication, performance issues, regulatory risks, customer needs, margin opportunities, and rationalization opportunities. Provide product platform direction and execution guidance where local market competition, customer requirements, regulations, or manufacturing capabilities require regional adaptation. 4.

Commercialization and Business Development Support Partner with sales, segments, finance, and technical teams to develop pricing guidance, proforma assumptions, value propositions, launch plans, sales tools, and commercialization priorities for the assigned technology. Facilitate launch readiness and commercialization of new products, upgrades, transfers, and platforms across USCA focus markets. Support sales, account specialists, technical service, and regional marketing teams as a product subject matter expert when customer, market, or commercialization support is required.

Contribute to customer growth plans, account conversion strategies, acquisition analysis, integration planning, portfolio transition recommendations, and business development initiatives where product or technology expertise is needed. 5. Cross-Functional Resource Alignment and Execution Provide prioritization recommendations for development projects, technical transfers, launch activities, lifecycle actions, and resource allocation as part of the product management review process. Collaborate with technical, operations, procurement, supply chain, finance, regulatory, sales, and marketing leaders to remove barriers and maintain execution discipline across the USCA region.

Create clear measures of progress and communicate project status, decisions, risks, and trade-offs to regional and divisional leaders and cross-functional stakeholders. Ensure product initiatives support revenue growth, profitability, asset utilization, customer satisfaction, regulatory readiness, operational capability, and scalable regional execution. 6. Leadership, Talent, and Change Management Lead direct reports, project teams, and matrixed stakeholders as applicable, including talent management, succession planning, coaching, and performance expectations.

Visibly lead strategic product initiatives and champion adoption of product platforms, portfolio simplification, and innovation discipline across USCA. Drive internal alignment and change management by communicating the business rationale, expected outcomes, timing, and accountabilities for major product initiatives. Overcome internal barriers, resolve conflicts, and maintain accountability for regional business results. Minimum Requirements:

Must have

a Bachelor's degree Must have previous Business to Business (B2B) experience in sales and/or marketing Must have experience with innovation, new product development and commercialization experience Must have Project management skills Preferred Requirements: Have a Master of Business Administration Have five (5) years of industry experience Have management experience