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At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.   

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Job Description

Reporting to Product Management Director, the Product Manager provides strategic insight, project leadership, and proposals on critical initiatives and investment decisions that connect market facing strategies with core operations. In this role, the individual identified will be specifically supporting activities and initiatives within the Press & Lamination space.

The Product Manager is accountable for delivering year over year revenue and profit growth for their respective product categories (~$200MM – $500MM in annual revenue) by developing strategies that enable profitable growth, improve productivity, increase asset utilization, guide and prioritize utilization of functional resources, drive core product offerings and complexity reduction for the assigned Product category

A Product Category is a subset of a product group and typically are manufactured by multiple business units and serve most or all market segments. They broadly consist of a suite of products which have similar value streams, end use applications, assets and strategic technologies.  There are ~15 Product Categories within AFNA.  There are several product categories within the four Product Group (Bags & Pouched, Rigid & Thermoformed, Printed & Laminated, and Extruded products).  The role serves to be the one source of truth regarding the company’s Product Category.  This role collaborates closely with market segments, product development, and the respective manufacturing facilities on the development and execution of strategic initiatives to meet market needs and exceed financial performance targets.  

An example of a Product Category is “ICETM & TWQ”, which is a subset of the Product Group “Extruded Products”.  The Scope of these roles impact $200 - $500 million in annual revenue.  Product categories will always span multiple BUs and multiple market segments.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

Financial Results

• Accountable for driving year over year revenue and profit growth of the business Product Categories
• Accountable for maximizing business results by optimizing products and technologies, and delivering against annual operating plans and long-term strategic plans

Network Planning

• Aggregate opportunity pipelines by the respective product category.  Partner with supply chain to create a network view of the capacity.   Provide long-term forecasting for product categories which inform market strategies, customer bid/deal strategies, and strategic capital investments
• Evaluate plant and asset performance against peers.  Drive relevant value streams to the best in class operational position by building recapitalization strategies and deploying central resources to lead best practice teams.
• With the network expertise and financial analysis build a pipeline of opportunities to maximize AFNA’s best assets.  Bring recommendations forward for AFNA leadership’s approval
• Provide business le