Product Manager (Labels)

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance, and support to Ti functional groups to align with the Americas Labels business strategy.
• Define and manage a differentiated product portfolio.
• Align and integrate activities between the Ti functional groups to ensure that customer and market needs are identified, understood and serviced with best value propositions.
• Drive product development activities with R&D teams, global product teams, manufacturing, applications engineering and planning.
• Drive new product & market development initiatives.
• Competitive analysis.
• Support Sales with differentiated product value propositions, training and product positioning.
• Support Marketing Communications with critical market messaging as well as technical data for product literature.
• Oversee product specifications ensuring fitness for make and market fitness for use.
• Support product Stewardship in coordination with regulatory and quality teams.
• Coordinate with Quality to Assur product complaints investigations and issues are completed to determine root causes and corrective actions.

Requirements

• A minimum college education of a bachelor’s degree.
• An Engineering Degree (mechanical, chemical, packaging) is preferred.
• 2 plus years’ experience in product management, technical sales/service, or market development.
• Knowledge of wrapping around labels is ideal.
• Strong preference for experience in BOPP films and labels converting applications.
• Making manufacturing experience is also valued.
• Ability to collect and synthesize market information and recommend actions.
• Excellent communication skills: ability to interface effectively with all levels of management at both the plant and corporate levels.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Effectively manage priorities.
• Operate in a multicultural international business environment.
• Sound decision making skills.
• Ability to drive innovations.
• Team building interest and ability.
• Technical learning aptitude.
• 30% travel availability (Mostly domestic and some international).