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Exempt Salary Range: $98,000 - $123,000

INEOS Acetyls Grade: H34

INEOS Acetyls is seeking a Product Manager to support its Warrenville, Illinois location. This role is responsible for leading short- and mid-term production planning for the Acetyls operating plant in Texas City, ensuring alignment between manufacturing capabilities and commercial demand. The Product Manager plays a key role in optimizing regional and global supply-demand balances, particularly during turnarounds and unplanned plant outages. Working closely with the Business Manager and cross-functional stakeholders, the role supports Americas Acetyls planning and operations meetings and contributes to safe, reliable, and efficient business performance.

Accountabilities

• SPA for forecasting process into business models.
• Day-to-day maintenance of supply-demand balances in line with the annual plan including management of purchases and swaps. Maintain asset optimization processes and tools to this end.
• Ensure all feedstock nominations are in line with output of the Planning/Operation meeting.
• Ensure all raw materials are purchased in accordance with contracts process. (Work with legal, logistics, credit).
• Member of the Business Support Team (Crisis Management).
• Planning and scheduling of products, working closely with Logistics team.
• Setting prioritization of customers and transload shipments during periods of limited supply
• On-going analysis of the business performance; driving insight of performance beyond the numbers. Identify and highlight trends/issues that help to focus business activities.
• Maintain and enhance contribution reporting capability, embed its use in the wider commercial team, and use the capability to target outlying customers.
• Support the Finance team to accurately report PU financial performance and variance analysis as required for acetic acid, acetic anhydride, and ethyl acetate.

Required profile:

• Level of education & Experience in general
• Qualified to degree level in Engineering degree is required (preferably Chemical, Mechanical or a similar discipline)
• 7-10 years of experience in manufacturing, logistics and/or commercial.
• Must demonstrate excellent problem solving & influencing skills to provide the best business outcome in a dynamic work environment.

Technical skills

• Must be comfortable in running business models (excel based) and the basic principles of cash and financial management.
• Must demonstrate understanding of supply chain / logistics and customer specific requirements.
• Excellent written/oral communication and presentation skills and ability to build effective working relationships.
• Strong time management, organization and solving skills.
• Highly motivated, self-reliant, and proactive mindset.
• Must have experience using MS Office applications. SAP applications desirable.

Behavioral skills

• A proven record of being able to work successfully in a multi-discipline team environment.
• Good communication and influencing skills.
• Results orientation and performance bias.
• Attention to detail.
• A desire for knowledge management and capturing lessons learned for future improvements.
• Ability to balance conflicting demands in a continuously developing environment.
• Good motivator and able to see improvement opportunities within their team and more broadly.