General Manager - North America, Personal Care

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a General Manager – North America:  Personal Care business.  This will be a hybrid position based in our Bridgewater, NJ location for in-office hours.  This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Commercial function.  This position will report to the SVP and GM, Personal Care.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Serve as a key member of the Personal Care senior leadership team and share responsibility for division-wide business priorities.


* Full P&L responsibility of the business including both short-term and long-term financial results.


* Establish and drive the monthly Personal Care – North America S&OP process to achieve financial, strategic, innovation and net working capital targets.


* Partner with Global Marketing, R&D and other functions to identify, develop, and drive key strategic initiatives to enable sustainable, profitable growth for the Personal Care – North America.


* Develop, update and implement a comprehensive strategic plan to increase revenues and profits.

 Own and lead the Personal Care – North America medium / long-term strategic agenda.


* Partner with global marketing and R&D to complete on-going assessment of our existing portfolio and define product innovation plan to address gaps to meet short term needs as well as develop the appropriate product portfolio aligned with the business unit strategy Personal Care – North America.


* Partner with global marketing and R&D to support the annual New Product Introduction (NPI) FY business target process to define a FY NPI target based on product, region, customer and financial target details.  Own and lead the actions to deliver on FY NPI targets for Personal Care – North America.


* Identify and assess potential business opportunities utilizing market research, business intelligence, competitive and scientific analysis.


* Collaborate and develop strong relationships with human resources, finance, and other center-led functions to ensure effective partnerships and alignment.


* Evaluate and ensure the organization has the competencies and structure required to implement the long-term strategy to ensure strong alignment between services and product offerings, market segments and customer-specific needs.


* Drive accountability for the selection and development of talent and succession within the organization to ensure an effective, sustainable model and talent pipelin...