Product Manager - PCG IMEA

Job Responsibilities

• Own and drive the product strategy and multiyear roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regional goals, and longterm strategic objectives.
• Lead and execute strategic initiatives including localization, portfolio expansion, value optimization, and new market entry through structured and disciplined product management.
• Drive localization initiatives across all Lubrizol product platforms, aligned with regional strategy, by building, prioritizing, and governing a robust product and localization pipeline to enable sustained growth.
• Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams (Commercial, R&D, Operations, 3PM, process technology, GPM, Supply Chain, Finance) to develop strong, datadriven business cases, evaluate makevsbuy strategies, and present actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Act as project owner for approved strategic initiatives, leading execution from concept to commercialization and ensuring timely delivery, accountability, and value realization.
• Translate market, customer, and competitive intelligence into clear product strategy decisions, portfolio priorities, and investment recommendations.
• Manage the endtoend product lifecycle, from ideation and development through launch, scaleup, optimization, and rationalization, to maximize growth and financial performance.
• Partner with commercial teams to shape gotomarket strategies, product positioning, value propositions, and pricing frameworks that enhance competitiveness and profitability.
• Work closely with R&D and technical teams to prioritize innovation pipelines, platform development, and technology roadmaps aligned with future growth opportunities.
• Establish and maintain governance structures, tools, and processes to track progress against strategic programs, milestones, and portfolio KPIs.
• Influence and align crossfunctional stakeholders across regions and functions, leading without authority to drive execution excellence and achievement of strategic outcomes

Key Deliverables

• Product strategy and multiyear roadmap aligned with regional priorities and longterm business objectives
• Prioritized and wellgoverned product and localization pipeline across platforms, enabling sustained regional growth
• Successful delivery of strategic initiatives (localization, portfolio expansion, value optimization, new market entry) with clear financial impact.
• Leadershipapproved, datadriven business cases for product strategy, investment decisions, and makevsbuy evaluations
• Improved portfolio performance, measured through revenue growth, margin expansion, and health of product mix
• Strong gotomarket strategy, including positioning, value propositions, pricing guidance, and effective product launches

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking - Ability to translate longterm business strategy into clear product direction, investment priorities, and profitable growth outcomes.
• Product & Portfolio Ownership: Strong endtoend ownership of product lifecycle, portfolio health, differentiation, and value delivery.
• CrossFunctional Influence & Execution: Capability to lead without authority, align diverse stakeholders, and drive disciplined execution in a matrix organization.
• MarketDriven, DataLed Decision Making: Deep customer and market understanding combined with financial rigor to enable strong business cases, makevsbuy decisions, and strategy execution.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executivelevel presentation skills

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Applied Science, or Business; MBA degree preferred , project management experience.
• 8-12 years of experience in product management, strategy, marketing, or techcommercial roles within B2B or industrial environment