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    Market Product Manager - Saint Paul, United States - HB Fuller

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    Regular, Full time
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    As the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, H.B. Fuller's (NYSE: FUL) innovative, functional coatings, adhesives and sealants enhance the quality, safety and performance of products people use every day. Founded in 1887, with 2023 revenue of $3.5 billion, our mission to Connect What Matters is brought to life by more than 7,000 global team members who collaborate with customers across more than 30 market segments in over 140countries to develop highly specified solutions that enable customers to bring world-changing innovations to their end markets.

    H.B. Fuller's Engineering Adhesives segment develops adhesive solutions for the automotive and aerospace, wood and composite, electronics and energy, glass, durable assembly, and bus, truck, rail and recreational vehicle industries. As these dynamic markets continue to change, and consumers demand lighter, safer, greener and more reliable products, we partner with our customers to deliver highly engineered solutions.

    The Market Product Manager - E-Power, Clean Energy and Electronics acts as a strategic Market Product Manager and the key liaison between market/customer needs, commercial sales, product management, marketing communications, and technology research and development. This Product Manager leads and delivers strategic technology and platform level direction through market research/analysis providing product roadmaps for new and existing Engineering Adhesives' product lines.

    The Market Product Manager is responsible for managing the strategic product line development to grow H.B. Fuller's position in three different segments: E-Power and Storage, Clean Energy, and Electronics. One is responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining, and executing Product Management processes designed to efficiently transfer market, technical, competitive and IP knowledge to the businesses.

    The Market Product Manager defines and communicates the overall product strategy based on market research, customer needs, and business goals. They identify target market segments, set product positioning, and establish pricing guidance based on factors such as manufacturing costs, market demand, and competitive positioning. The Market Product Manager conducts market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and threats to the current product portfolio. They identify strengths and weaknesses in the market and recommend strategies to maintain or improve the company's competitive position.

    Based on market analysis and business priorities, the Market Product Manager creates product roadmaps that outline the features, enhancements, and innovations to be incorporated into the adhesive product portfolio over time. They will work with R&D team to translate customer needs and market insights into product features. They develop and maintain current product position maps and a high-level evolution of a product line over time.

    They collaborate with sales and marketing teams to develop go-to-market strategies, provide product training, and support sales efforts. The Market Product Manager ensures that the product's value proposition is clearly communicated to customers. They oversee the entire product lifecycle, from introduction to retirement and make strategic decisions regarding product creation, changes, and discontinuations based on market demand, profitability, and strategic goals, and will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers and chemists to develop new adhesive products or improve existing ones.

    This position interfaces with internal and external stakeholders, including the Global Engineering Adhesives Product Management team, Engineering Adhesives Leadership Team (EALT), Group Commercial Business leaders, Technology Directors, Finance Partners, Human Resource leadership, key customers, distributors, and 3rd party organizations.

    One is accountable for the overall success or failure of the products and product lines. This not only includes envisioning how our products will be successful today but how they will continue to grow revenue, profitability, and market share over time.

    This position will be responsible for implementing the Engineering Adhesives Product Management processes to be faster to market than competition, deliver higher product success rates and deliver clarity to decision making about market opportunities.

    Primary Duties

    • Interacts with customers to define requirements, drives product selection, works with marketing to create promotional materials, and interfaces internally to translate customer requirements into development requirements.
    • Develops platform level roadmaps to improve the company's capability to address customer problems and unmet needs.
    • Implements product value added and pricing excellence, and works closely with Finance.
    • Gathers customer / market requirements for the platform level development in conjunction with region and global organization. Uses this information to create customer centric platform requirements to be used as the base for product development by Research & Development.
    • Ensures appropriate collaboration with R&D teams to develop, monitor and recommend adjustments to the product line based on market conditions and trends.
    • Acts as a liaison with Commercial Sales, Operations and R&D teams providing feedback about current and future customer needs.
    • Provides strategic oversight to the management of the product line, including value pricing support, marketing communications andcontent development.
    • Manages the product portfolio life cycles, along with product line management, including development, validation, readiness, launch and execution activities in support of the business strategy.
    • Active participation in conferences, tradeshows, industry and customer sponsored programs and events.

    Minimum Requirements

    • BA in Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Business, or Marketing
    • 5 + years of related experience and demonstrated application knowledge in the Chemical industry
    • Knowledge of the electrical vehicles or electronics or solar market
    • Knowledge of the adhesives market
    • 2+ years of demonstrated customer relationship management skills and ability to collaborate effectively with various functional groups and cross-culturally.
    • Knowledge of strategic planning processes. Ability to make good decisions in complex, highly strategic situations to drive profitable growth in the platform while balancing limited resources across the company.
    • Ability to work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors.
    • Must clearly demonstrate superior communication, interpersonal, influencing and presentation skills, with the ability to interact with key decision makers at all levels at both customers and internal management including executive levels.
    • Demonstrated ability to quickly prioritize and operate in a flexible, fluid environment, and have a strong desire to learn new skills and business functions.
    • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time domestically and internationally.

    Preferred Requirements

    • Master's degree
    • Scientific and technical background and expertise
    • Excel, BI, SAP and FLIP skills.

    Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, and geographic location.

    The salary for this role is $100,000 - $125,000.

    In addition to your salary, H.B. Fuller offers employees a competitive total rewards package including comprehensive benefits, incentive and recognitions programs, health & wellness benefits, 401K contributions, paid time off and paid holidays. Eligibility may vary.

    H.B. Fuller is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and proud to have created a collaborative culture where employees around the world are seen, heard, and respected. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or marital status or status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected classification.

    H.B. Fuller does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms. To conduct business with H.B. Fuller, a written service agreement must be executed by Human Resources prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. Without a signed service agreement, H.B. Fuller shall not be obligated for payment of any fee or compensation.

    H.B. Fuller is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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