IT Business Relationship Manager, Pricing, Rebates & Product Management

Solenis is a leading global producer of specialty chemicals focused on delivering sustainable solutions for water-intensive industries, including consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets. Owned by Platinum Equity, the company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, and cleaners and disinfectants, as well as state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments.  

  

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 69 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over 16,100 professionals in 130 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2024 US Best Managed Company, recognized fouryears in a row. For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com. 

As IT Business Relationship Manager you will be responsible for managing and sustaining relationships with the key commercial business areas of pricing, rebates and product management. You will effectively partner with these areas to ensure our technology helps them drive the right business outcomes. You will be responsible for understanding the end-to-end business processes in these areas and partnering with the aligned technical teams to drive solutions for these key stakeholders.  As such, strong partnering skills and business acumen along with an understanding of the technology areas is needed.

You will also take a key part in integration projects to ensure any integrated company’s pricing processes, rebate processes and product management data function correctly within Solenis’ technology environment.

While primarily responsible for our key pricing tool, PriceFx, the key rebates tool, Vistex, and its offshore support team, you are also responsible for ensuring all systems within the pricing process and rebates processes and product management processes maintain integrity of the appropriate related data.  As such, you will be partnering closely with our Salesforce, Masterdata and SAP technical teams to deliver solutions through technology.

Business Partnership and Integrations

• Build and leverage relationships with management, key business stakeholders and external organizations.  Review demand, projects, tasks and deliverables frequently and change priorities or scope in coordination with ever-changing customer needs.
• Ensures the business understands the technology solutions, overall solution delivery, opportunities for enhancement and compliance to governance processes, architecture standards, etc.
• Lead Pricing, rebate and product management workstreams of larger enterprise projects including integrations.  This includes working across the business and IT to ensure integrated company’s pricing works correctly in Solenis systems.
• Understand business issues and help provide insights into solving those issues through technology.  Conduct meetings with business leaders to create business (functional and non-functional) requirements.
• Responsible for any work associated with data management including, data mapping, migration, minding, profiling and data modeling.  Always documenting changes in definitions or processes for historical references
• Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements, forming project team and establishing project budget.

Team and Project Management:

• Lead offshore PriceFx support team to ensure PriceFx continues to improve and meet business needs.
• Partner with offshore leadership to ensure individual team member workload is optimized along with each’s individual development.
• Ensure PriceFx system continues to meet compliance and SOX requirements.
• Ensure Team follows all Solenis standard processes including issue resolution, change management and project management.

Experience/qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or comparable.
• 5- 7 years in a similar role.
• Working knowledge and experience of rebates processes, tools and Masterdata.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong collaboration, consultative, and analytical skills.
• Strong organization and business communications skills (oral and written) are required.
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft products, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with SAP Pricing, PriceFx, Vistex, or equivalent.
• Experience with Masterdata and data integrations.
• Experience with SAP is a plus.

#LI-remote

This role will be remote but will require 20% travel, mostly to the Wilmington DE office.

We understand that candidates will not meet every single desired qualification.  If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

At Solenis, we understand that our greatest asset is our people. That is why we offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits which include medical, dental, vision & 401K, and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. So, if you are interested in working for a world-class company and enjoy solving complex challenges, whether in the lab or the field, consider joining our team.

 

Solenis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer, including Minorities / Women/ Veterans / Disabled.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

 

Should you require assistance in applying to this opportunity, please reach out to Solenis Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@solenis.com

The expected compensation range for this position is between $117,675.00 and $164,745.00 plus discretionary bonuses. The exact compensation may vary based on your skills, experience and other factors permitted by law. Apply