Sr Product Line Manager, Base Chemicals

Kemira; Helsingin seutukunta; Hybrid; EUR 68,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work culture

Fair Pay Certification

Job summary

This role offers hybrid work, with preference for a Helsinki HQ location. You will craft strategies, drive pricing guidance, and ensure reliable supply across BUs while advancing Kemira’s sustainability goals.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business, engineering or related discipline preferred.
• Experience in product line management, commercial operations or strategic leadership in chemicals or manufacturing.
• Understanding of commodity products and chemical manufacturing processes.
• Ability to influence decisions and align stakeholders across functions.
• Experience with pricing guidance and portfolio lifecycle decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop product line strategies and roadmaps that support profitable growth and sustainability.
• Optimize capacity, profitability, working capital and cash flow across the portfolio.
• Own and manage the product portfolio, including specifications, recipe modification and lifecycle decisions.
• Own the price guidance process using market and competitor insights to support commercial decisions.
• Analyze market developments and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate across planning, manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain to ensure reliable supply.

Skills

Market insights

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

System knowledge

Excel/BI tools

Education

Master's degree in business or engineering

Tools

SAP

SAP Analytics Cloud

ProFlow

Integrated Business Planning

Excel

Job description

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemistry for water intensive industries. For more than 100 years, we have advanced the power of chemistry, ensured clean water and enabling a circular future. At Kemira, we foster a collaborative and inclusive work culture where we turn ideas into real-world impact. Learn more about Kemira at www.kemira.com/careers .

We are now looking for a Senior Product Line Manager, Base Chemicals to join our Fiber Essentials business unit.

Fiber Essential business unit provides a complete product portfolio and deep application expertise for pulp and bleaching industry, continuously developing new solutions to optimize customers’ operational performance and sustainability. Serving pulp producers around the globe, focusing on EMEA, North America, and emerging South American markets.

This position is preferably located in our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.

In this strategic role, you will shape the direction and performance of our Base Chemicals portfolio. You will manage the full product lifecycle for Caustic, Chlorine derivatives, Sulphur and Sodium Borohydride, working across commercial teams in different business units, sourcing, planning and manufacturing teams to improve profitability, cash flow, sustainability and security of supply.

In This Role You Will Be Responsible For

• Strategic vision: Develop product line strategies and roadmaps that support profitable growth and Kemira's sustainability ambitions. Contribute to sourcing strategies, make-or-buy decisions, investments and expansion projects.
• Profitability management: Optimize capacity allocation, profitability, working capital and cash flow across the portfolio.
• Portfolio Management: Actively manage and own the product portfolio, including specifications, recipe modification and lifecycle decisions.
• Pricing Guidance: Own the price guidance process, using market, customer and competitor insights to support commercial decisions both in Fiber Essentials and Water Solution BU
• Market Analysis and decision making: Analyze market developments and translate insights into clear recommendations and actions.
• Collaboration: Collaborate across business units, commercial teams, planning, manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain management to ensure reliable supply and effective decision-making.

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Market Insights: Understanding of commodity products, chemical manufacturing processes and the pulp market, together with an interest in continuing to learn.
• Analytical Skills: Hands-on approach and analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear insights and recommendations.
• Communicational Skills: Experience influencing decisions and aligning stakeholders across functions and organizational levels.
• Leadership: Demonstrated leadership in guiding stakeholders. Ability to prioritize, take ownership of outcomes and deliver value while adapting to changing business needs.
• System knowledge: Familiar with relevant business planning and enterprise resource planning tools; experience with Excel, Integrated Business Planning, SAP, SAP Analytics Cloud or ProFlow.
• Experience: A master’s degree in business, engineering or related discipline is preferred; Relevant experience in product line management, commercial operations or strategic leadership in related area, ideally in chemicals or manufacturing.

What You Can Expect From Us

• A strategic role with real impact where your decisions and actions clearly shape the direction, performance, and future development of our product lines.
• A collaborative and supportive team that values cooperation, enabling you to work across functions and learn from colleagues with diverse expertise and perspectives.
• An opportunity to contribute to Kemira’s sustainability-driven transformation and profitable growth.
• A culture based on Kemira Principles: Focus on Growth, Deliver Value and Collaborate to Succeed.
• Flexibility to organize your work between office and remote, in a hybrid work culture.
• If the position is based in Finland, the starting base salary range for this role is between EUR 6100 to EUR 7300 per month. The actual starting salary will be determined by various factors, including but not limited to relevant work experience, skills and competencies, qualifications, and wider business and organizational needs.

For more information, please contact Maria Sederholm, Vice President, Fiber Essentials Product Line Management, by email [e-mail]

We are leading the way to sustained fair pay in the workplace. As a Fair Pay Certified company, we are taking action to enable ongoing equal pay for equal work. This certification demonstrates our commitment to using trusted and transparent methodologies to analyze pay equity. We are proud to share this achievement as part of our dedication to a fair and equitable workplace for everyone.

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemistry for water-intensive industries. We operate globally and serve a wide range of customers including municipal and industrial water treatment companies and the fiber industry. Our solutions and services help secure clean water for millions of people every day and support our customers in advancing circularity and responsible resource use throughout their value chains. In 2025, Kemira reported annual revenue of EUR 2.8 billion with a global team of 4,911 colleagues. Kemira is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. www.kemira.com