Location
Huntersville, NC | United States
Job description
Covia is a leading supplier of minerals and material solutions to the industrial and energy markets. Covia’s rich legacy includes many achievements across industries and capital success through partnership. Our ability to deliver the right product, to the right place, at the right time, is unmatched. Just as strong is our commitment to building partnerships that help our customers succeed.
Quality and innovation are at the foundation of Covia; but our real strength is our people. Covia employs a diverse and highly skilled team of professionals to convert natural minerals into engineered solutions for our customers. Every member of our team has a valuable opportunity to help shape our future and make a positive impact on the world around us through our commitment to the locations where we live and work.
COVIA IS COMMITTED TO EMBRACING AND PROMOTING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (D&I) WHERE WE WORK, WITH WHOM WE DO BUSINESS, AND WHERE WE LIVE. We strive to create an inclusive culture where diversity is valued and respected and where all feel included and engaged. We are intentional in our efforts to bring Team Members together and create opportunities to contribute their unique skills, experiences, and perspectives in the pursuit of Covia’s business growth objectives. Enabling all Team Members to perform at their best while being themselves is fundamental to the Clearly Covia Values and Culture.
Covia is looking for a dynamic
Senior Product Manager, Specialties who will have a positive impact on the
Commercial team at its
Huntersville, NC location. The Covia Product Manager is responsible for developing and optimizing a product offering based on customer insights, competitive and market intelligence, and executing that strategy to optimize the offerings, market position, organic growth, and financial return of the product portfolio across the product lifecycle. The Product Manager will actively manage P&L to maximize the growth, development and return on investment of the organization’s product portfolio today and in the future. This is done by managing existing business initiatives, superior commercial execution through Sales, and building multi-generational product and asset plans.
The successful incumbent will have the following Key Accountabilities: - Lead development and implementation of product and asset strategies and projects to optimize returns across all time horizons, ensuring consistency with defined Industrial Segment Strategy.
- Drive revenue growth and maximize return on assets through overall product life cycle management and product line development. Drive product innovation thought leadership by product family working closely with Product Development & Innovation (PDI) leadership team. Product Management and PDI will own multi-generational product plans that deliver performance and costs consistent with multi-generational application plans (owned by Strategic Marketing and PDI), delivering targeted segment level gross margin growth and optimizing the return on assets for the business.
- Work with internal stakeholders (Sales, Manufacturing, R&D, Engineering and Pricing COE) to optimize medium- and long-term product profitability and asset flexibility. Product Management and Manufacturing will own long-term asset plans.
- Demonstrate product leadership on product S&OP issues between supply chain / operations management. Leads product and asset allocation work in times of product constraints, working with operations, supply chain, sales, legal, etc. Have decision rights on allocation strategy and execution.
- By working closely with Sales, PDI, and Marketing, collects competitive intelligence. Monitors competitor and customer business and strategy developments to identify emerging issues and opportunities. Creates effective gap analysis summaries. Develops appropriate strategies and tactics for given product areas.
- Leads investigations of new business opportunities requiring new technologies, geographies, building alliances or potential acquisitions.
- Own analytics in key areas around the product (Product list pricing, product profitability and costing, marketing ROI, project ROI, interface with operations on product operational and financial metrics).
- Ensure compliance with company standards regarding Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS), product commercialization, etc.
The successful incumbent will have the following Minimum Qualifications: - Self-motivated, high-energy individual who can function in a high demand, performance-driven environment
- Bachelor’s degree or higherin a Business or Technical discipline, required. MBA degree preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of work experience with demonstrated success in product management dealing with industrial products
- Strong financial acumen, commercial and analytical thinker with relevant experience interacting with and assessing complex business models, working with diverse data sources and P&L key metrics
- Lead cross-functional teams, collaborate well with diverse organizations and lead without authority
- Pragmatic problem solver with strong presentation skills
- Self-driven, energetic, creative, and resourceful self-starter who demonstrates leadership skills and strong commercial acumen (ability to work dynamically across functions)
- Excellent planning, execution, and project management skills
- Commercially capable with ability to present well to customers, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership
Benefits - Excellent Healthcare Benefits – medical, vision, dental
- 401K with company matching
- Vacation + Paid Holidays
- Disability, Life / AD&D, and Long-Term Care Insurances
- Employee Assistance Program
- Competitive Incentive Bonus
At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success. Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality, and respect within the workplace. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or veteran status.
The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits.
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