Chemical Product Manager

About the Role

ChemTreat, a Veralto company, is seeking a Chemical Product Manager to own the strategy, performance, and lifecycle of assigned chemical product lines. This role is central to the business, requiring close collaboration with various teams to drive portfolio performance and support the commercial team.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned chemical product lines, including strategy, performance, setup, optimization, and obsolescence decisions.
• Serve as the hub between commercial, technical, and operational teams, translating business needs into practical product actions.
• Partner with technical Product Champions to manage product-line strategy, product performance, raw-material challenges, and customer-driven needs.
• Balance day-to-day issue resolution with longer-term portfolio priorities, adjusting quickly as business needs change.
• Manage portfolio economics, pricing, profitability, product rationalization, and lifecycle activities in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Support product positioning, launch strategies, market initiatives, and sales-enablement materials.
• Ensure product compliance and support product stewardship and regulatory reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Business, Marketing, Environmental Science, or a related discipline.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in product management, portfolio management, technical marketing, commercialization, business development, technical service, operations, or a related role within the chemical industry or another technical, process-driven environment.
• Experience using financial, commercial, customer, and market information to make product or portfolio decisions.
• Business acumen and an understanding of pricing, profitability, product lifecycle management, and commercialization.
• Sufficient technical aptitude to understand chemical products, applications, manufacturing considerations, and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical information into clear commercial and business recommendations.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, solve problems, and work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing industrial, specialty chemical, water-treatment, or other technical product lines.
• Experience with portfolio strategy, product rationalization, pricing, margin improvement, or new-product commercialization.
• Experience partnering with Sales, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, or Regulatory teams.
• Familiarity with industrial water treatment, specialty chemicals, paper, packaging, manufacturing, or adjacent process industries.
• Technical or scientific experience supporting sound product decisions, gained through product management, technical service, operations, applications, engineering, R&D, or other customer-facing or business roles.

Why Join Us

• Join a collaborative, supportive team with deep technical knowledge and strong cross-functional partnership.
• Gain broad exposure across nearly every part of the business, including commercial, technical, operations, compliance, and supply chain teams.
• Work in a stable and growing organization with a long history of consistent profitability and career-development opportunities.
• Build skills that can open doors to future leadership, operations, commercial, or broader business roles.
• Support a highly customized portfolio of approximately 1,800 chemical solutions, with new products created to meet evolving customer needs.

Pay

The compensation range for this role is $90,000 - $110,000 USD per year.

Schedule

The role is hybrid, with four days onsite in Glen Allen, VA, and one day remote.