Senior Product Leader, Global Nonwovens

Owens Corning•Toledo, OH

17h

About The Position

The Sr. Product Leader, Global Nonwovens is responsible for defining and leading the global product strategy for Owens Corning’s ceilings portfolio. This role combines strategic ownership of the ceilings category with leadership of a global team of product managers, functioning in a “player-coach” capacity. This role operates in a highly collaborative B2B ecosystem—where success is driven through value co-creation with customers and deep integration into customer processes and applications. This leader will direct their team to shape and execute a multi-year growth strategy across geographies by working closely with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to jointly define solutions that create differentiated value. They will also partner closely with Roofing Product leadership to align shared processes, technologies, markets, and capabilities where applicable. Success in this role requires leading a team to cultivate strong cross-functional partnership, deep customer intimacy, and the ability to translate complex, evolving customer needs into actionable product strategies that deliver profitable growth across categories.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree; MBA preferred
7+ years of product or category management experience in B2B environments, preferably industrial, materials, or building products
3+ years of people leadership experience, including coaching and developing talent
Demonstrated experience in customer-facing roles, including working directly with key accounts or partners to define solutions
Experience leading product strategy, commercialization, and lifecycle management
Strong financial acumen, including business case development and P&L ownership preferred
Experience operating in global or multi-region environments
Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
Developing strategies rooted in customer collaboration and value co-creation
Translating customer needs into differentiated, application-based product solutions
Managing complex, cross-functional and customer-facing initiatives
Building strong relationships with key customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
Operating effectively across geographic and cultural boundaries
Developing end-to-end ecosystem (market, ops, etc.) understanding
Translating portfolio direction into concrete product plans & execution with robust project management acumen
Leading projects through a defined stage-gate process
Strong strategic thinking with a systems and solutions mindset
Ability to deeply understand customer businesses and translate into actionable insights
Skilled at influencing and collaborating across internal and external stakeholders
Strong business and financial acumen, including value-based decision making
Ability to simplify complex technical and market dynamics into clear direction
Clear, influential executive-level communication skills that aligns and mobilize stakeholders
Growth mindset with curiosity and continuous improvement orientation
Decisive, action‑oriented decision making to drive business success

Responsibilities

Operate as both a strategic leader and hands-on product owner—personally managing critical initiatives while coaching team members to drive impact across product lines
Lead and empower a globally connected team capable of operating effectively across regions, customers, and applications
Provide day-to-day team direction: removing barriers and ensuring delivery against team objectives
Establish clear priorities, operating rhythms, and accountability across a geographically dispersed team
Develop team to ensure product management acumen with a strong emphasis on customer engagement, market and customer insight, and solution-oriented thinking
Own team execution quality, clarity of work, and near‑term capability building – noting individual gaps or barriers and leaning into coaching and development where necessary
Nurture product culture, team cohesion, and ensure healthy succession across roles
Define and own the global ceilings product category strategy, including long-term growth opportunities, innovation roadmap, portfolio optimization, and financial business cases
Drive customer-back innovation through commercial partnership and direct engagement with key accounts, identifying opportunities for co-development and tailored solutions
Lead development of system-level value propositions—ensuring products are designed and positioned as part of broader customer applications and solutions
Manage products across the full lifecycle including: market insights, concept development, commercialization, and lifecycle management
Ensure ceilings strategy aligns with GM and business strategy as well as broader Roofing and Building Materials priorities
Collaborate with counterparts in R&D to lead a multi-phase innovation pipeline driven by customer needs, technology capabilities, and application opportunities
Partner directly with customers and commercial teams to co-develop solutions, test concepts, assess opportunities and weigh priorities to accelerate profitable growth
Ensure General Manager mindset across team including using P&L fluency to drive profitable growth and disciplined resource allocation and prioritization to maximize ROI
Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Pricing to define and develop commercialization strategies that reflect value-in-use and customer economics, not just product features
Foster a healthy stage-gated process with cross-functional alignment throughout product development and commercialization
Influence and align stakeholders across regions, functions, and businesses to drive decisive, effective decision making
Serve as a key integrator across Nonwovens and Roofing product teams, identifying, sharing and implementing best practices as appropriate
Coordinate with cross-functional teams to deliver on strategic priorities and key initiatives
Effectively communicate product strategy and value creation stories that resonate with both internal and external stakeholders
Create processes that enable compliance as well as data accuracy and completeness across systems (Velocity, Product Stewardship, dashboard tracking, etc.)
Leverage data and analytics to assess opportunities and understand performance across customers, segments, and applications
Improve data processes and capabilities to better support customer-specific insights and decision-making