Product Manager

Houston, TX (Hybrid 3/2) – Travel required 25% of the time.

About the role

Drive the strategic and operational direction of a broad portfolio of products within the Chemical Intermediates Americas regional business unit. Act as the key interface to Sales, Customer Care, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, R&D, Product Stewardship, and Legal in the Americas. Optimize the profitability of your product portfolio, which represents significant third-party sales via our assets at our biggest North American production site in Geismar, LA, along with selected imports from production facilities in Europe and Asia.

Responsibilities

• Manage the product portfolio to deliver returns above cost of capital and drive business strategy execution, with full accountability for pricing, margin expansion, and profitability.
• Understand regional market economics, growth, trends, opportunities, value chain, customers, and competitive environment.
• Implement and manage the regional development and commercial strategies for the product portfolio, including product positioning and business plan development and execution.
• Guide the sales force relative to product pricing, positioning, negotiations, and customer communications to align with the business/product strategies.
• Drive continuous improvement across cost, quality, supply chain, and service levels to enhance competitiveness, financial performance, and operational excellence.
• Lead product portfolio lifecycle management, including launch, repositioning, management of change, and withdrawal, and support innovation projects for the product portfolio.
• Collaborate across the organization, including Customer Care, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, R&D, and Regulatory organizations, to successfully deliver business plan targets.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain on demand planning, product allocation, and inventory management.
• Identify new leads, prioritize projects, and commercialize opportunities to drive continuous growth of the portfolio.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or closely related field.
• Industry experience, including 5 years in Operations, Sales, Product Management, and/or Procurement.
• Previous Product Manager experience preferred.
• Solid understanding of supply chain principles and systems.
• Solid business and financial acumen, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, including negotiation, influencing, presentation, reporting, and relationship building.
• Focus on increasing efficiency and driving continuous improvements.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements whenever possible.
• Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options.
• Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members.
• Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more).
• Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.
• Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.
• Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens.
• Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more.