Global Product Manager – Polymers / Chemistry / Water
- Location:
- Bradford jobs
,
West Yorkshire jobs
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary plus Benefits
- Company:
- Networx.
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 04/11/2009 16:14
- Job id:
- 45845851
- Contact:
- Carla Moore
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/WRXGL9063
Global Product Manager – Polymers / Chemistry / Water / Organic Chemistry
Applications & Product Management, Municipal & Industrial Based at Bradford, UK or Botlek, The Netherlands
Competitive Salary plus Benefits
Our client is a global 2.8 billion euro chemicals company that is focused on serving customers in water-intensive industries. The company offers water quality and quantity management that improves customers' energy, water, and raw material efficiency.
Applications & Product Management supports Municipal & Industrial Segment and is responsible for the commercialisation of new products based on customer needs.In addition, the team is responsible for managing applications and technologies, managing the product range of coagulants, flocculants, and other chemical products. Our client is now looking for Global Product Manager for Polymers.
Based at either the Bradford or Botlek site, reporting to VP Applications & Product Management, the Global Product Manager Polymers will be responsible for the global product range: flocculants, organic coagulants, antiscalants and dispersants. As Senior Manager, you will interface with manufacturing on products, processes and costs and steer product ranges to manage product cost structures.You will produce pricing guidelines and profitability analyses, resolve customer complaints and ensure competitive benchmarking. In this role you will be responsible for documentation including generic product data sheets, sales specifications, product data management, product/applications keys, regulatory approvals and compliance. You would also play a role in sourcing across units and out sourcing from competitors as well as sourcing of 3rd party produced products.
Applicants should have a university degree or equivalent in Polymer Chemistry or related subject with a solid technical and commercial background within the water industry, preferably with previous experience of organic chemistry/polymers. Candidates must have a strong customer focus with the ability to manage a product range on a global scale.With a willingness to travel, the successful candidate will have good interpersonal skills, be action oriented and have proven skills within a product management role.
networx is not a typical agency.We handle applications on behalf of our clients. After applying for this role you will be sent an email that it is essential you read in order to complete your application. Unlike a traditional agency we do not hold a database of candidates or put candidates forward for any other vacancies than those to which they have applied.
