In this role you own the Adsorbents product portfolio within Clariant, coordinating between operations, sales, R&D;, marketing and customers to optimize lifecycle profitability. You will drive lifecycle decisions, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead cross-functional innovation with R&D; and technical teams. The position blends technical depth with market strategy, offering impact across new market segments and collaboration at a general scale. A hybrid site-based role with opportunities for growth and meaningful sustainability-driven work.
Compensaciones / Beneficios
- Hybrid work model
- Professional development opportunities
- Meaningful work aligned with sustainability
- Exposure to senior leadership
- Competitive total target cash
- Collaborative and innovative culture
Responsabilidades
- Manage the end-to-end product portfolio and lifecycle
- Define and maintain pricing guidelines across sales channels
- Approve formulations, product and raw material specs, and packaging standards
- Drive lifecycle decisions, including pruning and cost optimization
- Ensure regulatory compliance with corporate and regulatory teams
- Lead resolution of customer complaints balancing satisfaction and feasibility
- Initiate and manage innovation/improvement projects with R&D; and technical teams
- Evaluate strategies to access new market segments (e.g., Pharmaceutical)
- Partner with Marketing to develop technical content, training materials, and trade show contributions
- Collaborate with Operations, Quality Management, and Sales to align on strategy and execution
- Travel to engage with customers and stakeholders as needed
Requisitos principales
- Degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or related field
- Minimum 3 years in product management, technical marketing, or related role in specialty chemicals
- Strong technical understanding of adsorbents/additives or related products (preferred)
- Fluent in English; German an advantage
- Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional stakeholder relationships
- Results-oriented with structured prioritization and problem-solving
- Customer-centric with understanding of market dynamics and unmet needs
- Resilient, proactive learner, and collaborative team player with ownership
- Collaborative team player
- Customer-centric mindset
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- Product lifecycle management
- Pricing and cost optimization
- Regulatory compliance coordination