Global Product Manager-Fibrous

About Viskase

Viskase is a global leader in innovative packaging solutions, specializing in high-quality artificial casings and packaging products for the food industry. Our commitment to excellence and sustainability has made us a trusted partner for customers worldwide.

At Viskase, you’ll join a team that values safety, quality, and continuous improvement, where your contributions make a direct impact every day.

Position Summary

The Global Product Manager plays a critical role in shaping and expanding Viskase’s global Fibrous product line. This position partners across multiple functions to set strategic pricing, improve portfolio profitability, drive product and market development, solve operational and commercial challenges, and identify opportunities to strengthen the long-term performance of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive revenue and margin growth for the Global Fibrous Casing portfolio.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the regional market landscape, including market size, segmentation, customer demand, competitive dynamics, trends, and pricing behaviors.
• Develop and execute competitive strategies for product offering, SKU mix, pricing, and targeted growth initiatives.
• Partner with commercial teams to deploy product and mix strategies with clear objectives, accountability, milestones, and tracking.
• Deliver measurable improvements in profit and profitability through product family management and mix optimization.
• Apply the company’s cost and pricing framework to establish pricing policies—including break points and complexity pass-throughs—that enhance margins.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve business processes (product range, pricing, customer focus, capacity use, inventory, distribution), build business cases, and lead successful implementation.
• Collaborate closely with sales, customer service, applications, and operations to understand leverage points, challenges, opportunities, and risks—ensuring coordinated cross-functional execution.
• Develop market models and long-range plans for the region and product family.
• Serve as a key leader for cross-functional issue resolution, ensuring timely solutions that maximize value for Viskase.
• Maintain and execute a clear, metrics-driven margin improvement plan using an Outcome-Plan-Execution framework.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Business, Finance, Engineering, or Marketing (MBA preferred).
• Unique blend of business insight and technical understanding.
• Prior experience in strategic product management with strong cross-functional awareness—especially with Operations and R&D—and the ability to communicate effectively with commercial teams.
• Ability to understand operations topics, including capital projects at manufacturing sites
• Strong financial reporting, analytical, and presentation capabilities.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail.
• Experience working in international and multi-currency environments preferred.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across all organizational levels and functions to elevate category performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deliver persuasive, fact-based presentations.
• Strong work ethic, solution orientation, and a “get it done” mindset.
• Strategic thinker with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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