(Senior) Product Manager - Propylene (m/f/d)

Are you ready to make an impact Europe’s largest propylene marketeer?

Join us as (Senior) Product Manager - Propylene (m/f/d) and take on a pivotal role in driving innovation, optimizing processes, and building strong partnerships in a dynamic, international environment.

At HELM, we merge the stability and sustainable values of a family business with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a fast-paced global organization. Here’s your chance to contribute to a future-focused business that prioritizes sustainability, collaboration, and excellence.

As part of our Chemicals Business Unit in the Base Chemical Solutions 3 Europe (BCS 3) team, you will enjoy exciting challenges, high responsibility, and the freedom to shape your work.

Your tasks:

As part of our motivated and experienced team, you’ll manage Europe’s largest propylene portfolio and help us remain the leading marketeer of propylene in the region. Specifically, you’ll:

• Drive Growth: Expand procurement and marketing activities across Europe with the support of your team and supply chain experts.
• Make Strategic Decisions: Develop and implement short- and medium-term strategies, including pricing, swaps, and tolling agreements, to maximize opportunities.
• Manage Key Accounts: Build and nurture relationships with major players in the chemical and energy sectors across Europe.
• Be a Market Expert: Monitor market trends, gather intelligence, and act as a networker to align purchasing and sales strategies with evolving conditions.
• Support Decision-Making: Provide data-driven analyses for budgeting and strategic planning, contributing to the future direction of the business.
• Optimize Operations: Collaborate with supply chain teams to schedule purchases, manage sales, and enhance international value chains.
• Advance Sustainability: Take an active role in implementing HELM’s sustainability strategy, focusing on decarbonization, circular economies, and biobased chemicals.

Your profile:

• You have a degree in business administration or a comparable qualification, with proven experience in trading, procurement, marketing, or sales (preferably in the chemical industry).
• Moreover, you have experience in negotiating purchase and sales contracts, with an understanding of portfolio risks and opportunities.
• A flexible mindset to thrive in a fast-changing environment and meet new challenges head-on is part of your personality.
• Hands-on experience with bulk shipments and rail shipments is essential.
• In this role, we are focusing a collaborative, reliable, and trustworthy personality, combined with a proactive and entrepreneurial approach to networking and business development.
• You have the confidence to make quick, strategic decisions in high-stakes scenarios.
• The proficiency in MS Office, Salesforce, and SAP S4, paired with fluency in professional English complete your profile.

Become part of our motivated team and shape the future of Propylene with us! Even if you do not fulfil all the requirements of our profile 100%, we still encourage you to apply. It is important to us to find the right people who will enrich our team with their motivation and personality!