Product Manager Consumer Materials, Coatings & Construction Solutions

Why Synthomer?

We are ambitious! We have grown significantly - both organically and inorganically. We are a FTSE 250 listed company, 22% of our revenue comes from newly commercialized products, and we're recognized in the top-quartile for chemicals manufacturing safety.

We believe in high challenge, high support! We are keen to let you contribute in real roles from day 1. We expect a lot, but offer a lot, too. This includes onboarding, induction and learning events, networking opportunities, mentoring and personal development planning. So, be up for an inspiring long-term career adventure.

We personalize our approach to development! At Synthomer, you won't find generic career tracks or development programs but rather a one-size-fits-one approach to employee development. We'll partner with you to ensure you have the right experiences that build your capabilities and accelerate your career growth.

Ihre Aufgaben

• Pricing and margin management activities

• Respond to Sales team inquiries

• Analyse data and provide evidence for pricing and commercial decisions

• Monitor global raw material costs and communicate trends or changes

• Portfolio Management

• Coordinate business-support activities related to launching / modifying / withdrawing products

• Aid development of financial case for new products, R&D, and plant transfers

• Manage product literature and maintain integrity of internal and external product information

• Effective Production Network

• Communicate needs between Commercial and Operations teams

• Ensure profitability by monitoring total cost-to-produce

• Inventory management

• Regulatory & Compliance

• Lead Consumer Materials regarding Regulatory initiatives

• Ensure global compliance and reliable availability of products for our customers

• General request/ such as SDS creation, hazard labelling, specific country requirements, ability to distribute, etc

• Support Product Management strategic initiatives

Ihr Profil

• Degree in a Scientific of Commercial Discipline

• Experience from Specialty Chemicals background desireble

• Minimum 5 years in a Product Management or Commercial/Business Support Role

• Comfortable to converse fluently in English, ideally also in German

• Organization and ability to progress multiple topics simultaneously; agile and able to change priorities frequently

• Interpersonal skills with ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders and earn the confidence of the sales team and other business functions.

• Tenacious about follow-up

• Ability to analyse detailed data, and to extract and summarise key messages to aid business decision making.

• Good cultural awareness, adaptability and confidence to work across geographic regions.