Product Manager, Estane, Asia Pacific

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Enhance innovation capability to secure Estane market position and profitability:

• Drive regular project innovation review to screen out impactful and strategic projects.
• Facilitate new product launch especially for key platform new product commercialization by leveraging global and /or regional resource to tackle various of hurdles to ensure business long term competitiveness. 
• Provide ongoing projects progress update in a timely manner to help prioritize the development.  
• Track and report new products/new applications for the region, provide timely update on the progress of NPS key KPIs.
• Conduct post-commercialization, analyze and address potential issues, share lessons learned and deploy improvement measurements.
• Emphasize ‘Speed on Innovation’ and continue to improve overall efficiency & profitability on new products development.

Supervise overall TPU product portfolio to maximize profitability:

• Conduct product portfolio analysis and understand portfolio structure. Lead portfolio optimization to achieve a well-balanced product mix.
• Identify sourcing location optimization opportunity to alleviate capacity constraint. Work with Sales and Planning team to ensure smooth location change without negative impact to customer.
• Lead regulatory impacted products’ reformulation and work with Sales and Marketing team to ensure smooth transition at customer sides.
• Tackle chronic product quality complaint by leveraging Mfg and Process team resource to seek for solution.
• Validate rename request and manage rename product portfolio.

Provide product information and initiate business process:

• Be the most reliable product information center for commercial team. Provide Asia Product Reference Guide regularly to Estane team to deliver comprehensive product information accurately. 
• Issue official customer notification letter to announce any product change.
• Validate customer spec request and seek for solution while keeping Lubrizol profit.
• Lead working process optimization to serve goal of ‘Speed on Innovation’. Work as focal point to share Estane strategy to supporting functional teams to seek for their timely support.  

Requirements – Education, Experience, Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or above, preferably major in marketing, business administration, chemistry related discipline.
• 5~10 years of experience in product management or marketing role, or other relevant industrial & commercial experience.
• Strong commercial acumen and analytical capabilities.
• Be able to effectively collaborate with cross functional members in a global organization.
• Strong self-motivator take lead to coordinate and facilitate resources to achieve business goals.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Demonstrated track record of effective leadership and influence without authority skills in past roles.