Product Manager, Animal Nutrition
Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2024 revenue of approximately $9.4 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.
The Role
The Animal Nutrition business, part of the Care Solutions Division, currently has an opening for a product manager (PM). The PM will play a pivotal role in driving the operational results of Animal Nutrition.
The PM is responsible for the optimization of business returns associated with the assigned portfolio of products and customers. The PM delivers variable margin through product pricing, contract strategy, focusing on asset efficiency and utilization, in cooperation with various functional partners.
Responsibilities
- Defines, maintains and executes product line strategies
- Responsible for the management of the product portfolio as assigned, which includes both strategic and operational oversight
- Ensures maximum return on assets for product lines. Develops and executes pricing and contract strategy. Continuously monitors business performance and influences business decisions using effective analytics, customer-centric recommendations, and product expertise.
- Leads and collaborates with cross-functional partners to deliver on business targets, including sales, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, Alternative Methods of Supply, regulatory etc
- Owns systems and processes to enable day-to-day business operations
- Leads or participates in gathering competitive intelligence, including analyzing key competitors and their products and assets, capacities, utilization, cost base and strategies. Monitors and communicates changing competitive activities including supply and demand modeling, import/export data, market share.
- Manages product and asset allocations
- Champions/supports 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree required in technical, marketing or commercial discipline. An MBA degree is preferred
- 6-10 years prior experience in sales, marketing, product & pricing management, supply chain or manufacturing.
- Demonstrated experience in product management and/or pricing is a plus.
Required Functional Competencies
- Strong analytical skills and excellent numerical abilities
- Strategic thinking and ability to translate effectively into execution planning
- Team player. Desire to collaborate with other functions to ensure effective progress and organizational alignment
- Strong commercial acumen
- Demonstrated experience in solving complex business problems
- Critical thinking, ownership, decision making skills
- Continuous improvement mindset and drive for results
- Good communication skills
This role will require maximum 10% travel time
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