Product Manager – Industrial Liquid Waterborne & Solventborne Coatings
Axalta
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Pennsylvania, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead the development and execution of strategic product management plans aligned with global strategies.
- Ensure optimal product portfolio management to drive sustainable growth and profitability.
- Conduct and synthesize global market assessments through primary and secondary research.
- Serve as the subject matter expert on market segments, trends, and competitive dynamics to inform strategic decisions.
- Define and refine market segmentation to assess market size, dynamics, company share, and growth opportunities.
- Prioritize sub-segments and customers to guide targeted strategies.
- Collaborate with R&D, sales, marketing, operations, and supply chain to ensure successful product launches and sustained performance.
- Oversee regional and global product lifecycle management, including new product forecasting, obsolescence planning, and portfolio rationalization.
- Drive cross-functional implementation of market strategies including pricing, product positioning, promotion, and distribution.
- Lead initiatives to improve product operational efficiency, reduce complexity, and optimize batch sizes and fixed costs.
- Translate customer needs into actionable project plans.
- Ensure effective gatekeeping processes, master data governance, and alignment with integrated business planning to support strategic decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Marketing, or other relevant discipline required.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- 5+ years’ experience in a marketing, commercial, or product management role with industrial liquid coatings alignment.
- Relevant Axalta experience will also apply.
- Cross-functional and cross-industry experience preferred.
- Demonstrated business and financial acumen with ability to both collect and analyze data followed by communicate insights effectively.
- Deep understanding of coatings products.
- Specialty experience within a segment desired.
- Proven success leading cross-functional projects with influence to achieve tangible results.
- Demonstrated experience leading gate project management processes and incorporating post-launch debriefs as a continuous improvement best practice.
- Excellent analytical skills with ability to work well and influence others.
- Highly motivated and results-driven with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to challenge status quo and creative problem solving.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid organization skills include attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.
Benefits
- Travel required: up to 25%.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product managementmarket assessmentmarket segmentationproduct lifecycle managementdata analysisproject managementfinancial acumenoperational efficiencycoatings productscross-functional project leadership
Soft skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsanalytical skillsresults-drivencreative problem solvingorganizational skillsattention to detailmulti-taskinginfluencecollaboration
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree