Product Line Manager

7 days ago


Shanghai, Shanghai, China Valvoline Global Full time

Why Work at Valvoline Global?

As a leading manufacturer of automotive and industrial solutions, Valvoline Global offers a unique opportunity to join a global team dedicated to innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction.

Our Corporate Values

We live out our values of care, integrity, passion, unity, and excellence in everything we do. These values shape our culture and guide our decisions, ensuring that we deliver exceptional results for our customers, partners, and employees.

Job Overview

The Product Line Manager is responsible for owning and analyzing all product costing, as well as key drivers of that costing. This role drives conversations with business stakeholders to implement supply chain optimizations, procurement savings opportunities, and portfolio consolidation through product lifecycle management. Additionally, the Product Line Manager is responsible for SMOG inventory management, keeping all business units informed of product costing.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Product/Portfolio Costing: Serve as the Single Point of Contact for all business units relative to current costing of all portfolio items, cost changes based on supplier inputs, and cost implications of various supply chain shifts. Actively communicate changes to all teams and ensure close connection with business to understand impacts of absorption on the portfolio.
  2. Supply Chain & Gross Profit Improvements: Continuously monitor and report out on changes within the portfolio relative to margin. Alert the team monthly to all items outside target margins along with recommended corrective actions to regain target margin windows. Actively seek out opportunities in the supply chain to drive out costs, enhance service levels, and deliver profitability.
  3. SKU Rationalization & Product Lifecycle Management: Own, monitor, and recommend product life cycle for the coolant and future mobility portfolios. This encompasses an annual SKU rationalization of the portfolio followed by Obsolete tracking and process completion. Additionally, determining which SKUs should be cured and provide a strategic path, leveraging data, to move the item into a healthy position.
  4. Master Data Accuracy: Ensure accuracy of product-related master data in SAP or non-SAP systems and records.
  5. Review and Manage Red Zone Inventory: In coordination with Supply Chain, provide direction on excess inventory solutions and ensure execution by the organization.

Qualifications

- A business or marketing education background is preferred. Knowledge related to chemical applications will be a plus.

- 5+ years of experience in PLM, marketing, technical, or finance roles.

- Understanding of product portfolio and lifecycle management is required. Knowledge of lubricant, coolant, and chemicals technology is a plus.

- Ability to produce and translate data into targets.

- Excellent interpersonal skills and fluent communication.

- SAP knowledge.

- Costing, profit, and product-related finance knowledge.

- English fluency in speech and writing.

- Self-motivated, analytical mind, and target-oriented.

Valvoline Global provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.



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