Senior Product Manager, Medical Device Contract Manufacturing 1

Job Location: Corona, CA

Job type: Full-time

Type of role: Hybrid

​​Salary Range: $150,000-165,000 

 

About Lubrizol  

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

 

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Global Market Segment Senior Manager, Medical Device Contract Manufacturing

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the medical device contract manufacturing industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What You'll Do:

As a Global Market Segment Manager, you will create, implement, refine, and maintain the quoting process and procedures across the Contract Manufacturing (CM) sites. You will execute on the overall product line strategy though collaboration with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Your work will directly impact the profitability and growth of the Medical Device Contract Manufacturing product line.

 

What We're Looking For:

• Manage Pricing and Product Strategy functions across all CM sites to deliver maximum value for CM services
  • People leader for a growing pricing team of 3+ reports
  • Global responsibility to maximize profitability  via value based pricing strategies and focus on core strategic markets
  • Develop business cases to support investment for new products/capacity expansion
  • Develop KPI’s to measure department performance and plans to improve performance
  • Identify and implement rigorous procedures and process to ensure consistency across sites
  • Drive global best practices, including systems implementation for creation of quotations, price list and price increases
  • Centralize quoting for device design and development between Germany and Corona, CA sites
• Develop global product line strategy that maintains alignment with the business unit, market and technology strategies.
  • Manage product portfolio and product life cycle to maximize financial performance and optimize complexity of existing product line.
  • Proactively identify low margin products and take action to improve margins
  • Develop competitive intelligence and counter strategies to maintain value and price leadership in the marketplace
  • Drive development of SKU costs with IS/Finance and Operations to enable improved business decision making
  • Partner with field Sales in support of Supply Agreement negotiations with strategic customers
• Coordinate with IS and Data Analysis to create and automate sales and forecasting reports
• Participate in supply agreement negotiations with sales and legal teams
• Represent businesses with operations to maximize service levels to external customers
• Ad Hoc reporting for Leadership Team

 

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 10 years combined experience preferably in operations, product management, finance or sales.
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; effective negotiating skills and strong team-building skills.
• Demonstrated ability in examining issues, crafting strategy and influencing effectively across the organization, driving people, process and technology change.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills and sound business acumen.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally approx. 30%.

 

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans.
• 401K Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution.
• Competitive medical, dental & vision offerings.
• Health Savings Account.
• Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave.
• Flexible work environment.