Product Life Cycle & D2V Manager

Ontex • Reidsville, NC

1d • $145,517 - $178,100 • Onsite

About The Position

At Ontex, we are making everyday life easier across generations. Worldwide our 5,500 colleagues are taking pride in their work, guided by our values – Passion, Reliability, Integrity, Drive and Everyone. Every day they are developing, producing, and distributing affordable and sustainable baby, woman and adult personal care products. As a leading international provider of personal hygiene solutions for retailer brands and healthcare partners, founded in Belgium in 1979 and listed on Euronext Brussels, we believe that innovation should be accessible to everyone. As we continue being 'Here for you', we’re looking for a Product Life Cycle & D2V Manager to join our R&D team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biomedical, or related field and 8 years of experience in the job offered or a related Product Development, Hygiene, Non-Woven or Consumer Goods occupation.
• 8 years of experience in Developing and optimizing product designs and materials to enhance performance and cost efficiency for disposable absorbent products.
• 8 years of experience in Validating raw materials and new product concepts, in collaboration with suppliers and internal labs.
• 8 years of experience in Characterizing materials (e.g., fluff pulp, SAP, nonwovens, films, adhesives) for performance attributes such as absorbency, rewet, retention, and/or softness.
• 8 years of experience in Navigating complex IP constraints to ensure freedom to operate and/or designing around existing patents to enable market access managing risks.
• 8 years of experience in Working with super absorbent polymers and nonwoven materials (i.e. spunbond, meltblown, carded), selecting and validating them based on performance parameters, such as retention capacity, permeability, softness to optimize product design in absorbent hygiene products.
• Travel required up to 15% of the time.

Responsibilities

• 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 lifecycles and design transfers from master specifications to SKU BOMs, ensuring accuracy, minimizing waste, and improving efficiency.
• Serve as the regional lead for 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.
• Drive cost competitiveness for raw materials and product designs in North America.
• 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, enabling commercial teams in volume growth initiatives, and ensuring harmonization and interchangeability across North American production sites.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior