Product & Pricing COE Leader

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2023 revenue of approximately $9.2 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit  www.eastman.com .

Responsibilities

Leads the Commercial Product & Pricing Center of Excellence Leadership Team, which is cross functional including Business Product Directors and core CoE staff. Key responsibilities include building corporate product and pricing capabilities that deliver. More specifically:

• Develop, execute and maintain the Product and Pricing commercial capability roadmap for Eastman that enables our vision to be a world-leading material innovation company
• Translating business strategy into effectively executed product line, asset and stream strategies that deliver targeted ROIC for the business
• Leading competitive intelligence for targeted product lines and aligns product strategies
• Monitoring external dynamics of raw materials, suppliers, industry supply/demand balances and adapts to changing conditions.
• Identifying and execution of projects to improve health of product portfolio and expand gross margin
• Providing input to the development of multi-year targets aligned with the SBU and provides input to performance reviews (SQ, MYBR, and Ops Reviews)
• Developing annual goals, targets and objectives aligned to the SBU
• Selecting, coaching, and retaining a high-performing team of talented product management and pricing professionals to execute and deliver business outcomes
• Creates a high performing and inclusive culture that enables everyone to contribute to their fullest potential
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree technical or business required. MBA degree preferred.
• 10+ years experience in a combination of sales, marketing, product & pricing management, finance, supply chain
• Product and pricing management experience is key
• Complex project leadership experience and capability
• Training in key improvement and problem-solving methods and tools (such as Six Sigma or Lean)
• Demonstrated experience driving differentiated outcomes in product management and pricing
  
  

Outcome driven performance demonstrated through at least 2 of the following functions:

• Product / Price / Stream Management – Required for all candidates
• Marketing
• Sales
• Supply Chain
• Procurement
  
  

Interested?

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Eastman Chemical Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected classes as designated by law.

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