Portfolio Manager, Materials

As Portfolio Manager, Materials, you collaborate with the Product Director, Materials to develop an end-to-end product strategy across the U.S. and Canada. You build understanding of customer needs, market segments, and competitive offerings to help shape a unique materials portfolio with clear positioning, optimized feature sets, and cost agreement.

You work with multiple teams, including Commercial Excellence, Marketing Communications, Pricing, Customer Service, and field teams. You help develop impactful sales tools, training, field communications, and digital content that articulates product performance and competitive advantage. You use data from multiple sources to analyze sales, margins, and category performance, driving applicable recommendations.

You will work out of the Greensboro, NC office (hybrid schedule 4 days per week in office) and report to the Global Director Strategic Marketing.

Main Responsibilities

• Product Portfolio & Financial Management - Analyze sales, margin, and category performance to support product roadmaps, guide next steps, and improve portfolio profitability
• Complexity & Lifecycle Management - Partner with Product Director to develop quarterly complexityreduction plans, including endoflife criteria, analysis, decision support, and portfolio transitions
• Product Development & Innovation - Collaborate with R&D and technical teams to assess new technologies, prioritize formula revisions, manage the Compass process, and support new product development
• Competitive & Market Analysis - Maintain understanding of portfolios, new product activity, and SWOT insights to inform positioning and strategic decisions
• New Product Launch Execution - Lead label and packaging design processes and coordinate with Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations to ensure supply readiness and launch understanding
• Product Content & Data Management - Own Product Data Sheet (PDS) development in collaboration with Product Director, R&D, Technical, and PSS teams
• CrossFunctional Communication & Collaboration - Support understanding across leadership, marketing, sales, and field teams to lead portfolio understanding, positioning, and segment focus

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, chemistry, or a related technical discipline
• 3+ years of experience in product development, product or portfolio management, strategic marketing, technical roles, or related sales experience
• Led product development and R&D processes including Stage Gate, with the ability to work with technical details and translate them into business and market outcomes
• Strategic, marketdriven thinker with market intelligence capabilities, including collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data to identify opportunities and inform decisionmaking
• Proven leadership, collaboration, and influencing skills, experience working across a matrixed, crossfunctional organization and engaging directly with customers
• Experience communicating product benefits and value propositions, balancing multiple projects, presenting complex information, and achieving results
• Ability to travel domestically

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