Product Manager
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Job Summary
Responsibilities
- Supplier scouting & qualification
- Identify evaluate and qualify new suppliers and product opportunities (domestic and international) that fit our product quality cost leadtime and compliance requirements.
- Run supplier discovery sprints organize lab analysis and installation testing to validate technical capability capacity and commercial fit.
- Product specification & lifecycle ownership
- Develop and maintain clear testable product specifications and acceptance criteria for sourced products.
- Supplier relationship & commercial management
- Own ongoing supplier relationships: commercial terms lead times capacity planning and price negotiations
- Support contract renewals NDAs quality agreements and changecontrol processes.
- Quality yield and issue resolution
- Monitor supplier performance (quality metrics yield defect rates ontime delivery).
- Coordinate rootcause analysis and corrective action for quality incidents and track remediation to closure.
- Coordinate crossfunctional incident response and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
- Crossfunctional program and project leadership
- Structure and lead sourcing stage gate projects (scoping resource plan milestones dependencies) as needed
- Act as the central point between procurement (sourcing and AMS) supplychain/planning product management finance/accounting and legal.
- Cost margin and portfolio optimization
- Provide input to portfolio rationalization decisions: which sourced SKUs to introduce keep or sunset based on margin complexity and asset implications.
- Bridge between product/commercial with sourcing / AMS and planning to ensure bring in product at the right quantity / right time minimize chances for stock out / EEOA.
- Working with Sourcing/AMS on supplier product performance cost optimization improve financial performances.
- Process & governance
- Own 3rd party sourcing managing process drive continuous improvement of supplier management processes and documentation.
- Influence & stakeholder management
- Influence crossfunctional stakeholders without direct authority; escalate and present recommended actions to senior leadership.
- RCP responsibilities: observe and summarize patterns identify competitive insights and communicate with key stakeholders in time with facts and recommendations as fits
Qualifications
Must to have:
- Exceptional project & program organization
- Proven track record structuring multistakeholder projects managing timelines dependencies and deliverables.
- Deep customer requirements understanding
- Ability to translate internal and external customer needs (product managers operations end customers) into actionable product specifications and supplier requirements.
- High technical aptitude and handson technical experience
- Strong technical literacy relevant to the product domain (e.g. processes test methods).
- Analytical & financial acumen
- Comfortable building cost models margin analyses and forecasting supplier impact on P&L.
- Strong interpersonal influencing skills with strong curiosities connecting dots putting puzzles into picture.
- Technical background to be able to make correct judgement in supplier capability in 1. Unique / strength of technology innovation; 2. Quality control capability and process integrity; 3. Work with supplier in process/quality improvement to provide consistent high quality of product.
Nice to have:
- Film industry understanding
- Supplier & commercial savvy: Experience in commercial terms negotiation supplier management is a plus.
- Quality & manufacturing process knowledge: Familiar with quality systems (root cause analysis (5Why Fishbone) CARs and inspection/test planning.
- Can push people and hold suppliers and internal teams accountable while maintaining productive relationships. Skilled at influencing without direct authority and synthesizing inputs into clear recommendations.
- Communication & documentation: keep supplier interaction/product performances/discussion as well sample history well
- Resilience & bias for action
- Pragmatic problem solver who escalates appropriately and closes open items. Drives pilots and tests to fastfail and learn.
Preferred experience & background:
- 5 years in product management supplier management sourcing procurement or manufacturing/quality role
- Prior experience managing thirdparty suppliers and new product introductions (NPI) at scale.
- Industry experience in Films preferred.
- Familiarity with relevant regulatory requirements (e.g. REACH etc.).
- Bachelors in engineering supplychain sourcing or related field
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About Company
Driven by more than 100 years of continuous innovation, Eastman is a global specialty materials company.
