Own and drive the product strategy and multiyear roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regional goals, and longterm strategic objectives.
Lead and execute strategic initiatives including localization, portfolio expansion, value optimization, and new market entry through structured and disciplined product management.
Drive localization initiatives across all Lubrizol product platforms, aligned with regional strategy, by building, prioritizing, and governing a robust product and localization pipeline to enable sustained growth.
Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams (Commercial, R&D, Operations, 3PM, process technology, GPM, Supply Chain, Finance) to develop strong, datadriven business cases, evaluate makevsbuy strategies, and present actionable recommendations to leadership.
Act as project owner for approved strategic initiatives, leading execution from concept to commercialization and ensuring timely delivery, accountability, and value realization.
Translate market, customer, and competitive intelligence into clear product strategy decisions, portfolio priorities, and investment recommendations.
Manage the endtoend product lifecycle, from ideation and development through launch, scaleup, optimization, and rationalization, to maximize growth and financial performance.
Partner with commercial teams to shape gotomarket strategies, product positioning, value propositions, and pricing frameworks that enhance competitiveness and profitability.
Work closely with R&D and technical teams to prioritize innovation pipelines, platform development, and technology roadmaps aligned with future growth opportunities.
Establish and maintain governance structures, tools, and processes to track progress against strategic programs, milestones, and portfolio KPIs.
Influence and align crossfunctional stakeholders across regions and functions, leading without authority to drive execution excellence and achievement of strategic outcomes
Key Deliverables
Product strategy and multiyear roadmap aligned with regional priorities and longterm business objectives
Prioritized and wellgoverned product and localization pipeline across platforms, enabling sustained regional growth
Successful delivery of strategic initiatives (localization, portfolio expansion, value optimization, new market entry) with clear financial impact.
Leadershipapproved, datadriven business cases for product strategy, investment decisions, and makevsbuy evaluations
Improved portfolio performance, measured through revenue growth, margin expansion, and health of product mix
Strong gotomarket strategy, including positioning, value propositions, pricing guidance, and effective product launches
Key Competencies
Strategic thinking - Ability to translate longterm business strategy into clear product direction, investment priorities, and profitable growth outcomes.
Product & Portfolio Ownership: Strong endtoend ownership of product lifecycle, portfolio health, differentiation, and value delivery.
CrossFunctional Influence & Execution: Capability to lead without authority, align diverse stakeholders, and drive disciplined execution in a matrix organization.
MarketDriven, DataLed Decision Making: Deep customer and market understanding combined with financial rigor to enable strong business cases, makevsbuy decisions, and strategy execution.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executivelevel presentation skills
Qualification
Bachelor's degree in engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Applied Science, or Business; MBA degree preferred , project management experience.
8–12 years of experience in product management, strategy, marketing, or techcommercial roles within B2B or industrial environment
