Product Manager Fuels

Lubrizol; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading chemical company in Hazelwood is seeking a Product Manager to oversee the Fuels additive portfolio. This hybrid role involves developing strategies, analyzing markets, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions. Candidates should possess strong leadership and communication skills and have experience in technical marketing. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional development are offered.

Benefits

Ongoing learning opportunities

Career advancement opportunities

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in category or technical marketing roles.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills.
• Strong understanding of financial aspects of product lines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Fuels additive portfolio strategy.
• Develop and execute product, price, promotion, and place strategy.
• Foster long-term relationships with clients.

Skills

Leadership

Market analysis

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Job Location: Hazelwood, Derby

Job type: Permanent

Type of role: Hybrid

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of our Fuels portfolio with high-level impact and visibility.
• Build Your Portfolio – Develop and execute the Fuels additive product, price, promotion and place strategy for your portfolio

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Enjoy hybrid working with the option to be based in Hazelwood or London UK

About the role

As a Product Manager you’ll lead your assigned Fuelsadditive portfolio strategy. This is a commercial role and is ideal for someone who thrives on combining market intelligence, customer insight, and market strategy with technology. Within this role, you\'ll be at the forefront of developing and driving market and customer focused product line strategies to deliver the long-term financial health of the portfolio, collaborating with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.

Through the art of creative partnerships, you’ll foster long-term relationships and provide intelligent guidance to help our clients better serve their customers. Taking a value-oriented approach, you are encouraged to build, own and manage the entire lifecycle of your portfolio and bring solutions to customers which help them overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities.

About you

You will bring experience of working within a category or technical marketing role, have commercial and technical acumen with strong leadership, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.

Alongside this you will have a strong understanding of the financial aspects of a product line, including pricing, margins, and profitability alongside the ability to make sound business decisions based on data analysis.

You will thrive on Leadership and collaboration, demonstrating skills in people engagement, motivating and collaborating with cross-functional teams, including R&D, operations, sales, and marketing.

You will also bring:

• Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with a variety of stakeholders, including customers, internal teams, and senior leadership and market analysis capabilities.
• Technical understanding of chemical products or lubricants is a plus.
• Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively interact with a variety of stakeholders, including customers, internal teams, and senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of the relevant markets, including customer needs, competitor analysis, and market trends and market analysis capabilities.

What we offer

• On-going learning opportunities in a rewarding work environment.
• Career experience with opportunities to develop into more Senior roles within the organization, that can span different businesses and functions.
• Competitive Salary and comprehensive benefits
• The chance to work on global teams with colleagues around the world and in different locations
• Develop your professional career in a highly respected, industry leading, multinational company which is part of the Berkshire Hathaway group

Working at Lubrizol

For nearly 100 years, Lubrizol has been at the forefront of innovation, delivering breakthrough solutions that advance mobility, improve well-being and enhance modern life. This progress is delivered by the expertise, passion, and commitment of people like you.

Lubrizol invests in our people, and we expect that same level of commitment and ownership from every employee. Our employees deliver results that enable our competitiveness and, in turn, their growth. They deliver the strategic inputs that impact our desired outputs. They own their careers and their future. They act with urgency to deliver and collaborate to enable our engaged and inclusive culture.

At Lubrizol, you\'re part of a winning organization critical to daily life, delivering clean water, efficient transportation, reliable infrastructure, critical medicines and countless consumer goods we use every day. Behind every advancement are proud Lubrizol innovators who think boldly, apply diverse perspectives, take action and execute with agility to help us deliver and help us grow.

We win because we bring science-based solutions to industry-leading organizations across the globe.

We win because we deeply understand our customers and deliver innovative chemistry with differentiated value.

We win because of our inclusive culture and our incredible talent.

We win because of you.