Job Description
About the Role:
The Senior Product Manager is responsible for driving the growth and development of the product portfolio through strategic leadership and cross-functional collaboration. This role guides Sales on where to amplify or deprioritize focus, ensuring efforts are aligned with business objectives. The Senior Product Manager partners with Sales and Strategic Marketing to drive adoption and increase share of demand, while leading SPLs with Sales and Tech Service. Additionally, the role supports RFQs and Tenders to grow existing products and expand share in underserved regions and segments.
Key responsibilities include introducing new SKU variants to better align with customer needs and providing innovation support through input to Strategic Marketing and NPI Marketing for future NPIs in core markets. The Senior Product Manager ensures NPI pricing, margin, and volume are aligned with the portfolio strategy.
In addition, the Senior Product Manager supports AOP and STRAP planning processes, contributing to long-term business planning and execution. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, the ability to collaborate across teams, and a deep understanding of market dynamics to drive successful product outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Maximizes profitability of the portfolio
- Owns pricing, margin improvement, and lifecycle decisions (including 80/20 analysis)
- Makes product mix and plant capacity allocation decisions to optimize profit
- Identifies opportunities for cost optimization and value engineering
- Tracks raw material inflation with Sourcing and drive pass-through pricing actions
- Executes pricing actions aligned with market shifts and cost changes
- Support SIOP process ensuring product availability and AOP attainment
- Performance Management
- Tracks product performance within current end-markets: revenue, margin, pricing, market share
- Develops corrective actions for underperforming products
- Market & Customer Engagement
- Monitors customer feedback, market trends, competitive landscape for core products and end-markets
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Strong product management experience, with a proven track record of delivering successful products.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Exceptional communication and leadership abilities.
- Experience working in agile development environments.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced setting.
About Us
About Solstice Advanced Materials
Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice, Genetron, Aclar, Spectra, Fluka, and Hydranal. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice's approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science. For more information, visit Advanced Materials .
