Product Manager PCG IMEA

Job Responsibilities

• Own and drive the product strategy and multiyear roadmap ensuring alignment with business priorities regional goals and longterm strategic objectives.
• Lead and execute strategic initiatives including localization portfolio expansion value optimization and new market entry through structured and disciplined product management.
• Drive localization initiatives across all Lubrizol product platforms aligned with regional strategy by building prioritizing and governing a robust product and localization pipeline to enable sustained growth.
• Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams (Commercial R&D Operations 3PM process technology GPM Supply Chain Finance) to develop strong datadriven business cases evaluate makevsbuy strategies and present actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Act as project owner for approved strategic initiatives leading execution from concept to commercialization and ensuring timely delivery accountability and value realization.
• Translate market customer and competitive intelligence into clear product strategy decisions portfolio priorities and investment recommendations.
• Manage the endtoend product lifecycle from ideation and development through launch scaleup optimization and rationalization to maximize growth and financial performance.
• Partner with commercial teams to shape gotomarket strategies product positioning value propositions and pricing frameworks that enhance competitiveness and profitability.
• Work closely with R&D and technical teams to prioritize innovation pipelines platform development and technology roadmaps aligned with future growth opportunities.
• Establish and maintain governance structures tools and processes to track progress against strategic programs milestones and portfolio KPIs.
• Influence and align crossfunctional stakeholders across regions and functions leading without authority to drive execution excellence and achievement of strategic outcomes

Key Deliverables

• Product strategy and multiyear roadmap aligned with regional priorities and longterm business objectives
• Prioritized and wellgoverned product and localization pipeline across platforms enabling sustained regional growth
• Successful delivery of strategic initiatives (localization portfolio expansion value optimization new market entry) with clear financial impact.
• Leadershipapproved datadriven business cases for product strategy investment decisions and makevsbuy evaluations
• Improved portfolio performance measured through revenue growth margin expansion and health of product mix
• Strong gotomarket strategy including positioning value propositions pricing guidance and effective product launches

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking - Ability to translate longterm business strategy into clear product direction investment priorities and profitable growth outcomes.
• Product & Portfolio Ownership: Strong endtoend ownership of product lifecycle portfolio health differentiation and value delivery.
• CrossFunctional Influence & Execution: Capability to lead without authority align diverse stakeholders and drive disciplined execution in a matrix organization.
• MarketDriven DataLed Decision Making: Deep customer and market understanding combined with financial rigor to enable strong business cases makevsbuy decisions and strategy execution.
• Excellent communication stakeholder management and executivelevel presentation skills

Qualification

• Bachelors degree in engineering Chemistry Materials Science Applied Science or Business; MBA degree preferred project management experience.
• 812 years of experience in product management strategy marketing or techcommercial roles within B2B or industrial environment