Now hiring! Product Manager - Personal Care, Commercial Excellence

Florham Park, NJ (Hybrid)

We are looking for a Product Manager - Personal Care, Commercial Excellence to join our Care Chemicals team in Florham Park, NJ.

Come create chemistry with us!

BASF’s Care Chemicals division is a globally leading supplier to the cosmetics, detergents and cleaning industries. We also offer solutions for technical applications and crop protection. Together with our customers, we create innovative solutions to meet the current and future needs of society more sustainably. We contribute to the long-term success of our customers’ brands with a broad range of products and concepts via our global network of production and development site. 

As a Personal Care Product Manager and Commercial Excellence Lead, you will have responsibility for the profitability, growth, and strategic direction of BASF’s UV Filters and Vitamins portfolio in North America. In addition, you will facilitate margin management across the broader Personal Care portfolio and lead Product Management governance of CPQ and related pricing processes. You will leverage business analytics to improve transparency, strengthen pricing and margin discipline, and translate portfolio performance into actionable commercial decisions.

You will connect market and customer needs with pricing, supply, operations, and long-term strategies across regional production and BASF’s global supply network.

As a Product Manager - Personal Care, Commercial Excellence, you create chemistry by…

• Owning portfolio performance: Drive sustainable, profitable growth for the UV Filters and Vitamins portfolio through disciplined management of price, volume, product mix, cost, margin, and customer opportunities.
• Facilitating margin management: Lead the quarterly Margin Management cycle across Personal Care, integrating supply outlook, cost development, market dynamics, and business needs to shape pricing strategy and margin actions. Coordinate across Product Management to drive an effective commercial management cadence, facilitating meetings and consolidating inputs to enable timely and informed pricing decisions.
• Providing pricing process governance: Serve as the Product Management lead for pricing process governance across Personal Care, ensuring appropriate pricing structures, processes, data quality, and disciplined use of the tool. Coordinate improvements and help ensure process supports the broader pricing strategy and operating model.
• Developing product strategy: Develop, communicate, and execute product line strategies for the UV Filters and Vitamins Portfolio, including portfolio positioning, capacity requirements, asset utilization, supply-network options, technology, scale, and cost competitiveness.
• Leading pricing and margin management: Establish pricing strategies for UV Filters and Vitamins Portfolio with business management; support customer bids; strengthen pricing-process discipline; evaluate raw-material and other cost movements; and recommend timely corrective actions.
• Turning market and business intelligence into action: Monitor market trends, customer needs, competitive activity, supply-demand dynamics, market pricing, raw-material developments, and technology changes using internal and external sources to identify opportunities, risks, and actions for the UV Filters and Vitamins Portfolio.
• Managing business planning and KPIs: Support forecasting, scenario analysis, and portfolio-performance reviews for UV Filters and Vitamins. Track margin, volume, mix, asset utilization, forecast quality, and progress against strategic growth priorities. 
• Building strong stakeholder alignment: Collaborate closely with Care Chemicals sales, marketing, finance, operations, production, supply chain, other product managers, global network partners, and BASF platform groups to advance both UV Filters and Vitamins portfolio priorities and broader Personal Care Commercial initiatives.

If you…

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Business, Marketing, Sales, or another relevant technical or commercial discipline.
• Preferably have over 5 years of commercial experience in product management, marketing, sales, finance, or a related commercial role.
• Demonstrate strong financial and analytical capability, including pricing, margin, cost, and scenario analysis.
• Can translate market, customer, financial, and operational information into clear recommendations, priorities, and executable plans.
• Have experience collaborating across commercial, supply-chain, operational, manufacturing, and financial teams.
• Exhibit excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels.

Create your own chemistry with you@BASF

At BASF, you will have the chance to do meaningful work towards building a more sustainable future. In addition to competitive compensation and benefits, BASF provides you with access to a wide range of elements to help you be your best. It’s what we call you@BASF. We are committed to providing benefits, programs, and opportunities that support our employees’ overall well-being, personal growth, and a safe, collaborative, and inclusive work environment.

Just some of the many benefits we offer include:

• Flexible work arrangements whenever possible
• Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options
• Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members
• Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)
• Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages
• Mentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive
• Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.
• Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens
• Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!

About us

As one of the largest chemical companies in North America we have been finding solutions for your everyday needs and addressing the most complex economic, environmental, and sustainability challenges for more than 150 years!

At BASF we empower our employees with the tools, guidance and opportunities they need to advance and succeed in work and life. Giving you the support you need to be your best and fulfill your personal ambitions is what helps us create chemistry. After all, our success is linked to yours. Whatever path you envision, BASF is a great place to build a rewarding, successful career.

Belong to Something Bigger. #belongatBASF

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Pay transparency

BASF is committed to pay transparency practices. The competitive pay range for this role is $129,600 - $162,000. Actual pay will be determined based on education, certifications, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Equal employment opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, citizenship, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability status, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.