Product Expert, PLM and ERP

About the role

The Role: Product Expert PLM and ERP
Altana's mission is to fix globalization. This role involves helping Altana build a future where PLM, ERP, and trade compliance systems seamlessly integrate, ensuring that product data flows automatically, accurately, and with full audit trail.

Responsibilities

- Reimagine the Product Data Lifecycle - Own the product vision for Altana's Product Passports serving as the connective tissue between PLM, ERP, and trade compliance systems. - Define how the as-designed, as-sourced, and as-built views of a bill of materials are reconciled and maintained over time. - Design workflows to propagate product changes continuously across commercial documents, classifications, and regulatory filings. - Close the Gap Between Product and Trade - Own the product vision for structured product data flow from SKU definitions through commercial invoices, advance ship notices, and customs entries. - Automate manual, error-prone processes and prioritize integrations and automations that unlock compliance value. - Turn Systems Expertise into Product Requirements - Translate firsthand experience with PLM implementations, ERP configurations, and broken handoffs into concrete product features. - Define how Altana captures product data rich enough for trade compliance, flexible enough for manufacturing variance, and structured enough for machine readability. - Serve as the internal authority on product data lifecycle across the supply chain. - Build Collaboratively with AI - Use AI tools to prototype workflows, generate explanations, and test ideas with customers and engineers. - Champion a culture of "show, don't tell" through demos, mockups, and AI-assisted visualizations. - Partner Across the Ecosystem - Engage directly with product engineers, trade compliance teams, procurement leaders, and ERP/PLM administrators. - Work with government-facing product teams to ensure the enterprise product data model complements CBP's enforcement and facilitation tools. - Collaborate with engineering on API design and data schemas that connect PLM platforms, ERP systems, logistics networks, and Altana's Product Passport layer seamlessly.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of hands-on experience with PLM and/or ERP systems in a manufacturing, sourcing, or trade compliance context. - Deep familiarity with bill of materials structures, item master synchronization, BOM transfer, ECO/ECN workflows, and failure modes at each handoff. - Working knowledge of how product data flows into commercial documents and trade compliance data requirements. - Experience with data modeling, integration architecture, or enterprise system implementation. - Prior product management, business analysis, or enterprise technology strategy experience. - Tech-enabled and AI-curious mindset. - Clear communication and ability to explain complex concepts to stakeholders.

Benefits

- US Salary Range: $200,000 - $255,000 USD - Flexible Time Off - Parental Leave - Health Benefits - Supplemental Benefits - 401(k) Savings - Commuter Benefits - Wellness Programs - Pet Insurance - Employee Assistance Program