Product Development Manager - Madisonville, KY

You have a choice of where you want to work! We invite you along on our journey to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. We aim to attract, retain, and energize passionate people, like you, by investing in your professional development and providing opportunities for personal growth. Do your values align with ours? Accountability, Growth mindset, One team, Care and a fair and inclusive work environment for everyone, everywhere! We strive to meet the highest standards of corporate citizenship by protecting the health and safety of our team, safeguarding the environment, and creating a long-lasting, positive impact on the communities where we do business. Are you with us?

About the Opportunity:

Responsible for managing portfolio of Filtration product development projects within the business unit for US. Manage the product development resources to guide successful Project Management activities utilizing the formal stage-and-gate process. Work closely with Product Managers to ensure product development activities are aligned with Product strategies. Interact closely with sales team to support and manage customer project portfolio. Guide efforts with sourcing teams to manage raw material strategy and supplier relations.

Essential Function and Main Responsibilities:

• Key contact within product development, linking market information and customer
• needs/requests to concrete product development and improvement actions and projects.
• Participation and active contribution to strategic product portfolio development.
• Implementation of product development projects in a timely manner.
• Resourcing of product development projects.
• Management of the USA product development project portfolio of the Filtration business
• unit to ensure alignment with the strategy and a proper balance of long-term versus short-
• term projects.
• Interact and coordinate closely with Product Managers and Sales to ensure priorities and
• focus of PD team align with product strategies.
• Leadership of product development team to ensure proper resourcing and management of
• projects, process and tools development and implementation, skills development and active
• sharing of best practices and knowledge.
• Follow-up on technology development and actively propose opportunities for development.
• Interact with and support the global PD teams as necessary.
  
  

Experience/Education:

• Five (5) to seven (7) years product development and supervisory experience. Filtration background preferred;
• Bachelor’s degree minimum
  
  

Required Competencies:

• Preferably a background in product development in the Filtration Industry, i.e., industrial, transportation, air, liquid, specialty, etc.
• Solid understanding of the technologies within these businesses inside / outside the company.
• Proven track record of project portfolio management in product development.
• Proven ability to manage multidiscipline teams and to deliver results through the utilization of a matrix organization.
• Business thinking aptitude including customer and market orientation and experience of joint development projects with customers.
• Financial knowledge and professional skills to manage projects under agreed budgets.
• Fluency in English, working knowledge in other languages desirable.
• Able to maintain and build close and effective relationships at various levels of organization, networking skills inside / outside of the company.
• Creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational, leadership and communications skills.
• Willingness to travel. Domestic and occasional international travel.
  
  

Compensation and Benefits: Our company offers a Competitive Salary with Career Growth Opportunities and a Full Benefits Package including Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, Company Provided Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Competitive 401(K) Plan with Company Match and Defined Contributions, and Short-Term Incentive Bonus Program. Other available benefits include Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, and group rates available for MetLife Home & Auto Insurance as well as Nationwide Pet Insurance.

Ahlstrom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal opportunity is a sound and just concept to which we are firmly bound. Ahlstrom will not engage in discrimination against, or harassment of, any person employed or seeking employment with our company based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, non-disqualifying disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

About Us. Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Join our journey to create a more sustainable world with products and solutions that Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. Our three divisions, Filtration and Life Sciences, Food and Consumer Packaging, and Protective Materials, address global trends with safe and sustainable solutions.

We are deeply committed to building and maintaining safe and inclusive environment and culture, where everyone feels valued and respected. At Ahlstrom, we all have equal opportunities to belong and reach our full potential.

Our net sales in 2023 amounted to EUR 3.0 billion and we employ some 7,000 people. Read more at