Product Manager to Lignin Industries

To reinvent an industry, you must build the best team. Join Lignin Industries if you want to bring a ground-breaking new biomaterial to every injection moulder and film blower in the world.

We´re looking for a Product Manager to manage our growing engineering material portfolios. If you want to establish requirements for new products, determine features and user experience, and follow the product from development to launch, we want you as a Product Manager.

Lignin Industries is a young, innovative, and fast-growing company in the biotech sector. The company has patented a revolutionary technology transforming lignin, the most abundant unused biopolymer on earth, into a renewable and functional biomaterial replacing fossil-based plastics. Our innovative technology has been selected for several fundings to support Lignin Industries expansion, such as European Innovation Fund, Swedish Energy Agency & Vinnova (Sweden´s innovation agency) for its superior potential to reduce CO2 emissions.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPECTATIONS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING. OTHER DUTIES MAY BE ASSIGNED:

• Be the sales team´s technical encyclopaedia.
• Communicate with potential & existing customers via telephone, email and occasional on-site visits to represent and explain all technical aspects of our product.
• Understands the customer needs and support the whole organization to understand what challenges we need to solve and why.
• Manage the development, evaluation, and commercialization of new or modified material grades and support efforts in continuous improvement.
• Outcome-based R&D – continuously prioritize the opportunities that are most likely to measurably impact the outcome of the material performance.
• Be all over the data – make intelligent decisions backed up by qualitative insights.
• Fail successfully – design experiments that allow us to learn quickly so that we focus on what works.
• Influence and lead – work in tight collaboration with your team and inspire to build a superior product for our customers.
• Stay current with product regulatory issues and developments.
• Attend relevant conferences and trade shows.

In this role, you will report to our Chief Commercial Officer and work as part of a cross-functional team.

YOUR PROFILE

You love learning and keeping it simple:

• You take an analytical, hypothesis-based approach to problem-solving.
• You are curious and want to understand how things work so that you can make them better.
• You are eager to collaborate and learn from different people, from product developers to insights from the sales team.
• You can break down problems and identify where to start in order to quickly deliver solutions and impact.
• You are a great communicator and can turn complex concepts into a language anyone can understand.

YOU CARE

• You are humble and build strong and trusting relationships with both customers and colleagues.
• You are hands-on and willing to do what is needed to help the team.
• You have a deeply personal motivation to reduce the usage of fossil-based plastics in our world.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Worked as a product manager for +3 years, ideally in a start-up environment working in cross-functional teams.
• Material science, chemistry, physics, or engineering background.
• Project-oriented mindset.
• Customer focused and solution-oriented with an affinity for data analytics.
• Experience from the plastic industry (bioplastics is valuable merit).
• Communicates fluently both written and oral in English. Swedish and German language skills is meritoriously.

WHY US?

Join our impact.

• A job with purpose, you work together with a team dedicated to solving one of the planet´s biggest challenges.
• A job with high impact, both for the environment as well as for the shape and structure of a fast-growing start-up.
• Equity package so that you can benefit from the long-term success of Lignin Industries.

DETAILS

Location: Hybrid, our office is located in Knivsta, Sweden.
Type of work: Full time Monday-Friday
Start date: Immediately.

In this recruitment, Lignin Industries is collaborating with Jurek. For questions regarding this role, please contact recruitment consultant Hanna Kaponen, hanna.kaponen@jurek.se, +46760026925.

ABOUT LIGNIN INDUSTRIES AB

The forest is a renewable resource. Lignin is a by-product from the pulping industry. Globally 80 million tonnes are processed in the pulping industry, making it the largest natural by-product on earth. Today, 99% of the produced lignin is burnt for its energy value.

Lignin Industries convert lignin so it can be blended with virgin and recycled thermoplastics creating new types of bioplastics. For every 1 kg of fossil-based plastics replaced by RENOL® we decrease CO2 up to 6 kgs released into the atmosphere.

https://www.lignin.se/