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.
Knowledge and experience
- University degree in Chemical Engineering, or equivalent through work experience
- Minimum 5 years Product line Management and Marketing experience
- Technical or scientific literacy and innovation management experience
- Business acumen – Understand the impact of decision on business impact
- Customer and market insights around the FCC business
- Brand management and product positioning management
- Solid background in SAP, cost models and economic evaluation
- Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently, goal orientated
Key Focus/Responsibilities
- Market and Customer Insight
Deep, decision‑ready understanding of markets, customers, and demand drivers
- Portfolio Strategy & Lifecycle Management
Optimize segment portfolio over time - R&D Direction & Innovation Returns
Ensure innovation efforts translates to commercial advantage
Manage business case - Value Proposition, Positioning & Messaging
Manage branding and product placement in print media, digital media and conferences
Create the product line marketing narrative and organize collateral to support narrative - Commercial Enablement & Market Execution
Enable Sales in the selling process, understanding customer buying behavior - Financial Performance & Product P&L
Manage economic outcome of the product line
Price, CM strategy and execution - Governance, Alignment & Decision Ownership
Drive alignment and decisions across functions - Maintain competitive intelligence database
- Support Strategic Marketing Director in day-to-day business
- Work with other product line managers to ensure a consistent approach for activities
- Monitors regulatory and federal/state HSE programs and initiatives that may have an impact on the business and communicates risks and/or opportunities to Business Management
Accountabilities
- Product Line Strategy & Direction.
Alignment with market trends, financial goals, manufacturing assets and competitive behavior
Product P&L, Price strategy and contribution margin - Product portfolio and lifecycle accountability
Ideation, New product development and introduction
Product launch, drive market adoption and product phase out
Portfolio optimization - R&D direction and outcomes
Translate product line requirement into R&D actions
Market implementation of new product developments - Market insight and track competitive activity
Market segmentation and prioritization
Track competitive positioning vis-à-vis competitive - Sales enablement and commercial execution of new product introduction
Clear value propositions, technical positioning, competitive intelligence
Capture customer/market feedback for strategy adjustment
Benefits of Joining Ketjen
Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.
