Glass Wool Business Program Manager

**Pourquoi a-t-on besoin de vous ?**
The** Technology and Industrial Performance** (TIP) Department as a central team in charge of Industrial Performance roadmap, standards and benchmarking, R&D programs for Construction, Strategic Investments, Capacity Allocation among countries and Excellence Programs, is looking for a **Glass Wool Business Program manager** to work on **optimization of Glass Wool density**.
Optimization of Glass wool product density will have a positive impact on raw material and energy consumptions. You will fully contribute to **Saint-Gobain Group net-zero carbon commitment**.
Under the guidance of the Business Development Program Director-Insulation Business, you will lead the support of local teams’ projects located in different countries.
The job involves **collaborating with multiple international stakeholders**, including plants, marketing and R&D centers on highly technical topics such as physics of wool forming, binder curing, glass composition, data analysis. Success in this role will rely on your ability to exercise strong networking and cross-functional influencing competencies.

**Your key responsibilities will include**:
1- Guide countries in term of:

- Setting appropriate deployment strategy (choose of product mix to be optimized ),
- methodology,
- Setting trials targets and analyze results,
- Selecting technical standard to be implemented (sensors, technologies, quality controls..), sharing best practices,
- Savings calculation and follow-up,
- Promoting work with country Marketing, and if needed central Marketing to collect customer insight,

2- Provides dedicate training when needed

3- Contributes to project reporting with benchmark and KPI’s follow up.

4- Contributes to prepare project executive reviews

5- Set target to R&D based on market and plant’s needs, to raise our technical knowledge. New tools developed will help pushing forwards limits of density reduction.

6. Collaborate with 4.0 team to develop optimization tools.

Location: the position will be preferably based in France (CRIR R&D center, Rantigny - Oise (60)). Travel to plants is expected (up to 25% of working time, France and abroad).

**Ce poste est-il fait pour vous ?**
To be successful in this position, you will ideally have:
**Academic**: Engineering schools. Master of Science.

**Experience / technical competencies**:

- Thermal / Mechanical Material Sciences / Fluid dynamics
- Previous experience with operational teams in production management or industrial development.
- Skills in data processing. Programming in Python ability would be a plus.

**Aptitude / soft skills**:

- Good communication and interpersonal skills, for teamwork in an international and multicultural context,
- Autonomy,
- Results-driven with the capacity for proposals and cost/time optimization solutions,
- Fluency in English.

**On vous en dit plus sur nous**
Need more reasons to join us?

A job at Saint-Gobain also means:

- Numerous opportunities for professional development, Saint-Gobain is committed to offering attractive career prospects to our employees accompanied by professional training to help them develop their skills.
- The opportunity to directly contribute and actively participate in the advancement of our sustainable housing initiatives: 84% of our team members are motivated by the prospect of having a positive difference in the environmental footprint of our operations
- An attractive remuneration package, including: bonuses, access to the Group Savings Plan as well as our profit-sharing and incentive programs
- A diverse array of additional perks, including company-sponsored health insurance and parental support, among others.
- A welcoming and collaborative work culture: more than 90% of our staff express pride in being part of the Saint-Gobain team and appreciate the positive working atmosphere.
- A structure that prioritizes work-life balance, offering a Quality of Work Life (QWL) agreement that permits remote work for up to two days a week.

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Job Reference: FRA24650