Product Manager - Rosebank at Sappi

As Product Manager you will be responsible for:

• Overall responsibility for every product made at the relevant Mill.
• Consistently monitor quality and customer feedback related to those products and give regular feedback to Mill personnel.
• Monitor product cost and work with mill and customers on ways to reduce costs.
• Product development to meet current and future market demands (coordinates development from inception to future requirements
• Responsible and coordinate and ensure that regular business team meetings take place at the Mill between sales, business management, mill personnel and product manager to enable product management function
• Strategically identifying the shortfalls within the mill to manage the market requirements as it relates to the product. Making recommendations to the mill or the HOD of departments
• Provide Business Managers and Sales Managers with necessary product and marketing tools (specifications, product characteristics etc.)
• Responsible for the planning and running of trials at mills and at customers with Technical Product Specialists and sales
• Develop market strategies, plans, budgets, and forecasts.
• Benchmark competitor costings and product performance by coordinating between sales teams and mills as well as international market research)
• Manage cost-saving and margin-enhancement projects for portfolio products
• Responsible for product development initiatives at the respective mill.
• Visit customers with sales representatives.
• Manage product certification process, not limited to MOSH/MOAH; FSC; Typical values; FDA/BFR compliance.

What are we looking for?

• Tertiary qualification/degree or recognised equivalent, with technical training and experience in paper making.
• 5 years or more technical/manufacturing experience, with a focus on cost management and product engineering – ideally within the printing, packaging or paper industries.
• The candidate must have a strong technical background with commercial experience.

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence
• Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi
• Opportunities to travel
• Market leading leave benefits
• Employee wellbeing benefits