Lifecycle to Value: Product Portfolio Manager

Title

Product Lifecycle & Design to Value Manager (North America)

Ontex Operations USA, LLC

• Drive cost efficiency, product optimization, and standardization across North America.
• Execute cost‑saving initiatives, ensure raw material and product designs remain competitive, and support procurement strategies through market intelligence.
• Monitor product life cycles and design transfers from master specifications to SKU BOMs, ensuring accuracy, minimizing waste, and improving efficiency.
• Serve as the regional lead for the product portfolio, reducing complexity, ensuring harmonization across production sites, and supporting commercial teams in executing non‑innovation growth initiatives.
• Streamline operations, accelerate innovation, and maintain a cost‑competitive product portfolio.
• Support procurement strategies through market intelligence and benchmarking, administering raw material specifications to align with production needs, and fostering strategic supplier relationships.
• Define and implement Design Transfer processes in collaboration with Industrialization and NPI teams.
• Liaise with the global Product Portfolio Management team, supporting efforts to control product complexity and enabling commercial teams in volume growth initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biomedical, or related field.
• 8 years of experience in product development, hygiene, non‑woven or consumer goods.
• Experience in:
• Developing and optimizing product designs and materials to enhance performance and cost efficiency for disposable absorbent products.
• Validating raw materials and new product concepts in collaboration with suppliers and internal labs.
• Characterizing materials such as fluff pulp, SAP, nonwovens, films, adhesives for performance attributes.
• Navigating complex IP constraints to ensure freedom to operate and designing around existing patents.
• Working with super‑absorbent polymers and non‑woven materials (spunbond, meltblown, carded), selecting and validating them based on performance parameters.
• Travel up to 15% of the time.

• Job Site:
  Stokesdale, NC.
• 40 hours per week.
• Salary: $ - $ per year.

If you are passionate about the role and believe you would be a great fit, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply, ensuring a fair and transparent selection process.