At Ontex, we are making everyday life easier across generations. Worldwide our 5,500 colleagues are taking pride in their work, guided by our values – Passion, Reliability, Integrity, Drive and Everyone. Every day they are developing, producing, and distributing affordable and sustainable baby, woman and adult personal care products.
As a leading international provider of personal hygiene solutions for retailer brands and healthcare partners, founded in Belgium in 1979 and listed on Euronext Brussels, we believe that innovation should be accessible to everyone.
As we continue being 'Here for you’, we’re looking for a Product Life Cycle & D2V Manager to join our R&D team.
EMPLOYER: Ontex Operations USA, LLC
TITLE: NA Product Lifecycle & Design to Value Manager
DUTIES: Drive cost efficiency, product optimization, and standardization across North America. Execute cost-saving initiatives, ensure raw material and product designs remain competitive, and support procurement strategies through market intelligence. Monitor product lifecycles and design transfers from master specifications to SKU BOMs, ensuring accuracy, minimizing waste, and improving efficiency. Serve as the regional lead for product portfolio, reducing complexity, ensuring harmonization across production sites, and supporting commercial teams in executing non-innovation growth initiatives. Streamline operations, accelerate innovation, and maintain a cost-competitive product portfolio. Drive cost competitiveness for raw materials and product designs in North America. Support procurement strategies through market intelligence and benchmarking, administering raw material specifications to align with production needs, and fostering strategic supplier relationships. Define and implement Design Transfer processes in collaboration with Industrialization and NPI teams. Liaise with the global Product Portfolio Management team, supporting efforts to control product complexity, enabling commercial teams in volume growth initiatives, and ensuring harmonization and interchangeability across North American production sites.
REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biomedical, or related field and 8 years of experience in the job offered or a related Product Development, Hygiene, Non-Woven or Consumer Goods occupation. Must include 8 years of experience in each of the following: Developing and optimizing product designs and materials to enhance performance and cost efficiency for disposable absorbent products; Validating raw materials and new product concepts, in collaboration with suppliers and internal labs; Characterizing materials (e.g., fluff pulp, SAP, nonwovens, films, adhesives) for performance attributes such as absorbency, rewet, retention, and/or softness; Navigating complex IP constraints to ensure freedom to operate and/or designing around existing patents to enable market access managing risks; and Working with super absorbent polymers and nonwoven materials (i.e. spunbond, meltblown, carded), selecting and validating them based on performance parameters, such as retention capacity, permeability, softness to optimize product design in absorbent hygiene products. Travel required up to 15% of the time.
OTHER: Job Site: Stokesdale, NC;
40 hours/week;
Salary: $145,517.00- $178,100.00 per year.
CONTACT: Ontex Operations USA, LLC.
Requisition EBD26EXT
If interested apply online at https://careers.ontex.com/ or email your resume to hr.usa@ontexglobal.com and reference the job title of the role and requisition number.
If you're passionate about the role and believe you would be a great fit, we'd love to hear from you. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply, ensuring a fair and transparent selection process. Should you have any questions, feel free to contact our HR department at jaime.miller@ontexglobal.com.
Here for you.
Since 1979 we have been driven by a simple purpose – to partner with our stakeholders and make great quality products accessible to all. Over time we have grown into an international company in the baby, feminine and adult care categories, trusted by people of all generations, to make their everyday lives that little bit easier.
Ontex is a leading international developer and producer of baby care, feminine care and adult care products, both for retailers and healthcare, primarily in Europe and North America. The group employs around 5,100 people, with plants and offices in 11 countries, and its innovative products are distributed in around 100 countries. Ontex is headquartered in Aalst, Belgium and is listed on Euronext Brussel, where it is a constituent of the Bel Mid® index. To keep up with the latest news, visit ontex.com or follow Ontex on LinkedIn.
