Elementis

Elementis is looking for a Global Portfolio Manager to manage the company’s global portfolio across the Coatings and Personal Care markets.

Elementis is a global specialty chemical company, with 1,300 employees and 17 manufacturing sites worldwide. The company creates high-value specialty additives that enhance the performance of customers’ products across markets such as cosmetics, anti-perspirants, decorative and industrial coatings, automotive and ceramics.

Role overview:

The Global Portfolio Manager will define long-term strategy and positioning for different product categories and steer the product portfolio lifecycle, ensuring the right balance between customer experience, working capital and operational efficiency.

This role leads lifecycle decisions, including MTS, MTO, ETO, rationalization, phase-out and production transfers, acting as the central coordination point across Strategic Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, Sustainability and Innovation Delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Define portfolio structure and category roles aligned with segment priorities;
• Apply clear positioning logic, such as good, better and best, across the portfolio;
• Ensure trademark oversight for key portfolio brands and decide whether to create, maintain or exit them;
• Ensure alignment between portfolio strategy, segment priorities and value propositions;
• Define and steer lifecycle strategies, including MTS, MTO, limited run and phase-out;
• Lead structured lifecycle programmes to assess portfolio health and performance;
• Initiate next-generation and optimization actions to strengthen portfolio competitiveness and value creation;
• Lead SKU rationalization with clear business cases and value impact;
• Maintain a rolling rationalization roadmap for continuous portfolio optimization;
• Balance working capital reduction with customer experience and service levels;
• Act as the Strategic Marketing lead for sustainability and PRSA-related portfolio actions;
• Drive mitigation actions for at-risk products and POCOC exposure;
• Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements and long-term portfolio resilience;
• Lead sustainability-related portfolio topics, including PARC activities, sustainability scoring and improvement actions;
• Work closely with Sustainability teams and Segment Managers;
• Coordinate portfolio lifecycle priorities across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Finance, Sales and Innovation Delivery;
• Ensure transparency and alignment on upcoming changes and risks;
• Lead cross-functional decision-making with clear alignment, accountability and execution;
• Ensure decisions are data-driven, actionable and supported by portfolio governance standards;
• Drive the availability of accurate lifecycle data in PIM;
• Define requirements for reporting tools.

Decision making:

• Approve all small projects for Coatings and Personal Care;
• Set global portfolio strategy;
• Decide on product rationalization, considering input from sales and marketing segment leaders;
• Define relevant KPIs to track progress;
• Report regularly on portfolio KPIs to the Global Head of Strategic Marketing.

Job competencies:

• Strategic mindset to set direction, identify market trends and align product management with current and future customer needs;
• Effective communication to articulate strategic goals, provide guidance and align teams with company objectives;
• Agility and adaptability to adjust decisions, processes and resources in a complex environment;
• Ability to plan and align multiple projects, resources and timelines effectively;
• Strong collaboration with R&D, Marketing, Regulatory Affairs, Procurement and Supply Chain teams.

Technical knowledge and skills:

• Strong ability to manage a complex, multi-plant and multi-region portfolio;
• Holistic understanding of interdependencies between products, customers, operations and working capital;
• Ability to translate portfolio insights into fact-based lifecycle decisions;
• Excellent commercial and operational judgement;
• Ability to balance customer experience, profitability, sustainability and operational constraints;
• Strong stakeholder alignment and decision facilitation skills;
• Ability to bring diverse functions together, surface trade-offs and drive alignment;
• Data-driven prioritization using product performance data, demand patterns, financial indicators and risk signals;
• Ability to focus resources where business impact is greatest.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Chemistry or equivalent;
• MBA is desirable;
• 8 to 10+ years of experience in product management, portfolio management, supply chain or commercial roles in multinational environments;
• Experience in portfolio optimization;
• Experience with lifecycle governance;
• Familiarity with Power BI;
• Strong project coordination skills;
• Fluent English;
• Fluent Portuguese.

Elementis is looking for a Global Pricing Manager to own global pricing strategy for the Personal Care and Coatings business units, ensuring value-based price positioning, pricing consistency and margin optimization across regions.

Elementis is a global specialty chemical company, with 1,300 employees and 17 manufacturing sites worldwide. The company creates high-value specialty additives that enhance the performance of customers’ products across markets such as cosmetics, anti-perspirants, decorative and industrial coatings, automotive and ceramics.

Role overview:

The Global Pricing Manager will connect market insights, cost structures and commercial execution to drive pricing consistency, margin quality and profitable growth across regions and product categories.

Responsibilities:

• Lead product category pricing strategy across Personal Care and Coatings;
• Develop and deploy value-based pricing frameworks aligned with margin targets, portfolio positioning and competitive dynamics;
• Define pricing models, including value-based, cost-plus, competitive and tiered pricing;
• Ensure pricing consistency across regions while allowing structured local input;
• Own market and competitor pricing intelligence across segments and categories;
• Build transparent pricing benchmarks, customer willingness-to-pay insights and market trend analysis;
• Work with Segment Managers, Sales, Procurement and Innovation Delivery to translate insights into pricing actions, opportunities and risk mitigation;
• Partner with Finance and Data teams to maintain accurate and up-to-date standard cost information;
• Monitor cost fluctuations, price realization and margin leakage;
• Recommend price adjustments aligned with capacity utilization, elasticity, volume and portfolio objectives;
• Define pricing for new products, product iterations and portfolio changes;
• Own price lists, discount structures and approval frameworks;
• Enable dynamic pricing approaches to optimize asset utilization and improve price realization;
• Advise Sales teams on pricing negotiations, discount structures, rebates and long-term agreements;
• Lead pricing work for large or global contract renewals in close alignment with Finance and Sales leadership;
• Define requirements and promote the use of Power BI pricing dashboards to monitor profitability by product, customer and segment.

Decision making:

• Define and implement global pricing frameworks, including price lists, discount structures and approval mechanisms;
• Own pricing decisions for new products, portfolio changes and pricing adjustments;
• Balance margin, volume and market dynamics in close alignment with Segment Management and Sales;
• Define relevant KPIs to track pricing performance, including price realization, margin quality and discount leakage;
• Report pricing performance regularly to the Global Head of Strategic Marketing.

Job competencies:

• Strategic pricing mindset, with the ability to translate market insights into profitable pricing strategies;
• Cross-functional collaboration with Finance, R&D, Marketing, Procurement and Supply Chain;
• Effective communication to clearly articulate pricing logic and strategic intent;
• Governance orientation to ensure structured, consistent and compliant pricing execution.

Knowledge and skills:

• Strong pricing strategy capability in a complex, multi-plant and multi-region environment;
• Understanding of the interdependencies between cost, volume, capacity utilization, customer segments and regional dynamics;
• Ability to translate insights into fact-based pricing strategies that optimize margin, price realization and portfolio performance;
• Excellent commercial and financial judgement;
• Ability to balance customer value, profitability, market dynamics and operational constraints;
• Strong stakeholder alignment and pricing execution leadership;
• Ability to align Strategic Marketing, Finance, Sales, Supply Chain and Data teams;
• Data-driven decision making using cost data, price realization, elasticity insights, market benchmarks and margin performance indicators;
• Ability to prioritize actions with the highest financial and strategic impact.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance or equivalent;
• MBA is desirable;
• Minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience in B2B environments;
• Relevant experience in pricing, finance, marketing or commercial roles within multinational organizations;
• Advanced pricing analytics skills;
• Financial modelling experience;
• Experience with Power BI or similar tools;
• Strong stakeholder management skills;
• Fluent written and spoken English.