Product Manager

Position Summary:

The Product Manager is responsible for actively driving and managing the product development, market testing, and launch stages of a product development process, working in conjunction with the sales team as a technical advisor and product advocate for Tedia products. The Product Manager must be able to articulate technology and product positioning to both business and technical users. The Product Manager will identify technical issues to ensure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the sales process. With market knowledge and end-user insight, Product Manager feeds customer and market data to other technical staff within Tedia, works collaboratively with Tedia staff to improve existing processes and products, and to develop new products and services.

Essential Duties:

• Decide, communicate, and periodically reconcile and re-evaluate critical aspects of Tedia branded products, including specifications, shelf-life, packaging requirements, and product line attributes.
• Monitor and report trends in multiple customer markets and applications.
• Design and justify new products lines and evolution of existing product lines.
• Identify, research, and quantify new customer markets and applications for Tedia products, purification, and packaging capabilities.
• Provide frequent and standardized application and product training to Tedia and distributor sales teams.
• Facilitate and execute internal communication of customer expectations and problems from the sales team and Tedia processes, methods, and systems from the production team.
• Support Tedia product marketing and new product launch by providing technical marketing information through review and analysis of market pricing and specifications.
• Represent Tedia externally to customers, industry organizations and exhibitions, and in technical publications and presentations.
• Serve as technical lead on Tedia assigned accounts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position does not have supervisory responsibility.  

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or related technical field.
• 3-5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment and/or chemistry industry.
• Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Master’s or PhD in chemistry or related technical field.
• 5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment and/or chemistry industry.
• SAP experience.

Key Competencies:

• Collaboration
• Communication (Internal/External)
• Ethics and Integrity
• Innovation Mindset
• Interpersonal Skills
• Analytical Thinking
• Customer Engagement
• Technical Credibility
• Business Acumen
• Results-Driven
• Vision and Strategic Thinking

Work Environment /Physical Demands:

 The physical demands described here are representative of those         that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.