Product Manager India – REFRIGERANTS & APPLIED SOLUTIONS ( RAS)
Role summary
Lead product strategy, lifecycle management, and day-to-day operations for the refrigerants business. Drive demand planning, operational excellence and on-time delivery across all product lines. Act as the primary cross-functional owner between supply chain, operations, logistics, sales, and customer service for all product lines.
About Solstice Advanced Materials
Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice’s approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science. For more information, visit Advanced Materials .
Product Localization & Management
- Own execution of regional localization projects across RAS
- Own NPI (new product introduction) regional launch: lead all aspects and actions required for new product introduction, including identification and execution at tollers
- Ability to perform complex analytics, particularly related to ideal management of supply caps/quotas and make/buy decisions
- Own Demand Management during periods of product allocation
- Demonstrate understanding of end-to-end role of product manager in context of dynamic competitive environment
SKU & portfolio management
- Create and maintain SKU master data in SAP and own the product management module.
- Lead SKU rationalization and portfolio optimization to reduce complexity, lower cost, and improve inventory turns.
- Manage new-SKU introduction (NSI) and end-of-life (EOL) processes, including cross-functional sign-off, obsolescence plans, and communication to sales
Demand, forecasting & lifecycle planning
- Own the regional SIOP process
- Lead cross-functional S&OP cadence: demand review, supply review, reconciliation, and executive review to align demand, capacity, inventory, and financial plans.
- Maintain forecast accuracy targets (MAPE/MAE) and drive continuous improvement through model tuning and root-cause analysis of forecast errors
- Set and monitor safety-stock policies and service-level targets by SKU based on criticality, lead time, and demand variability (ABC/XYZ segmentation).
