FCC Product Manager

Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

Are you inspired by “what’s next”? So are we.

When you join the Ketjen team, you contribute to a better tomorrow. You will play a role in powering many of the world’s largest and most critical industries, from energy and communications to transportation and electronics. We are putting innovation to work to improve people’s lives and we want YOU to be a part of it.

Ketjen is hiring for a Product Manager. This position is located hybrid, located in the Clear Lake, TX, Singapore, or Amsterdam.

What You Will Do

Strategy & Analysis

• Development Regional strategy for your defined market and align on execution with RGM
• Develop Long-Range-Plans (LRP) & Annual Operation Plan (AOP) in close collaboration with RGM
• Define price list for all products within region and acceptable CM/kg target
• Understand customers business, strategy, regional policy changes and future markets
• Share insight into market conditions & competitive behavior
• Determine optimal path to market for growth and prioritize segments
• Strategy and organization of product roadmap
• Long-term market forecast to develop/support Strategic Growth Plan

Financial Management:

• Responsible for margins per Product Group / Market Segment / Region
• Conduct financial analyses, budgeting, understand and challenge cost impact on P&L
• Deep dive into product cost reduction and implement cost controls
• Inventory needs within regions
• Together with SIOP analyze forecasting accuracy and define improvements
• Lead continuous improvement projects that result in cash generation or reduced risk

Contracts & Partnerships

• Negotiate contracts and review periodically and manage and improve collaboration with partnerships
• Serve as director or operational lead of alliances/partnerships
• Promote partnerships with customers & internally
• Licensors with respect to Energy Transition – Revamps vs. New Units

Marketing and Customer Experience

• Develop and execute (in close collaboration with communication department) global marketing strategies & coordinate with regional teams for brand alignment, and develop case studies for challenger insights
• Management of Marketing Budgets
• Collaborate with Sales and TE to propose customer solutions that win business
• Coordination of new marketing opportunities within region such as trade shows or publications
• Coordination of articles produced within
• Customer experience: work with Quality to review QN database and prioritize corrective actions
• Understand customers' business, strategy, regional policy changes, and future markets

What You Bring

Required:

• Engineering or Business Degree Required
• Minium of 10 years' experience
• Additional knowledge, skills, abilities REQUIRED: Strategic Thinking, Prioritization, Project Management, Business Acumen, Analytical Thinking,

Benefits of Joining Ketjen

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits package

• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.