Product Manager

Quanex is looking for a Product Manager to join our team located in Mounds View,

Minnesota.

• The Product Manager is the enterprise product and market expert for colors,
• coatings, plating, and decorative and protective finishes across the Quanex
• Hardware Solutions portfolio. This role owns the finishes strategy and
• lifecycle, with a primary focus on harmonizing color offerings, naming
• conventions, specifications, master standards, and customer-facing tools across
• product lines. The Product Manager translates customer and market needs into
• differentiated finish solutions; partners with engineering, operations,
• sourcing, quality, sales, and marketing to ensure consistent appearance and
• performance; and leads commercialization of new or improved finishes. The role
• is accountable for the finishes roadmap, portfolio simplification, growth,
• profitability, quality, and customer adoption.

We Offer You!

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Potential
• 401K with 5% company match, yours to keep after 2 years
• 15% immediate return if you participate in the company’s ESPP
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
• Employer paid disability plans and life insurance
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Various Work Schedules
• Tuition support for degree and continuous education
• Employee Resource Groups focused on employee empowerment

What’s attractive about the Product Manager position?

• Enterprise Impact: This role has broad influence across the entire Quanex

• Hardware Solutions portfolio, shaping the strategy, standardization, and
• future direction of colors and finishes across multiple product lines and
• facilities.

• Strategic and Cross-Functional Leadership: The position offers the

• opportunity to lead complex initiatives and collaborate with engineering,
• operations, quality, sourcing, sales, marketing, suppliers, and customers
• without direct authority.

• Innovation and Market Influence: The Product Manager drives the development

and commercialization of new finishes, responds to architectural and design

trends, and helps bring differentiated solutions to market.

• High Visibility and Business Ownership: The role owns the finishes roadmap,

• portfolio governance, pricing recommendations, lifecycle management,
• profitability, and customer adoption, providing significant ownership and
• accountability.

• Unique Blend of Technical and Commercial Expertise: It combines product

• management, market research, customer engagement, color science,
• manufacturing processes, and business strategy into a highly specialized and
• impactful role.

• Growth and Development Opportunities: Employees benefit from professional

development programs, tuition assistance, competitive compensation, bonus

potential, and the opportunity to become an enterprise subject matter expert.

• Customer-Centric Focus: The role directly influences customer experience

through finish standardization, color tools, product launches, training

programs, and customer-facing solutions.

What Success Looks Like

• Successfully develops and executes an enterprise finishes strategy that

• aligns customer needs, market trends, operational capabilities, and
• profitability goals.

• Drives harmonization of colors, finish standards, naming conventions,

• specifications, and customer communications across the Quanex Hardware
• Solutions portfolio.

• Launches innovative finishes and surface technologies that increase revenue,

customer adoption, and competitive differentiation.

• Establishes effective governance processes that ensure consistent

• decision-making for finish introductions, modifications, approvals, and
• discontinuations.

• Improves finish consistency, durability, quality, and operational efficiency

while reducing complexity, variation, obsolete inventory, and costs.

• Delivers actionable market insights from customer feedback, competitive

analysis, and industry trends to guide strategic decisions.

• Creates strong partnerships across engineering, operations, sourcing,

• quality, sales, marketing, suppliers, and customers to execute initiatives
• successfully.

• Provides effective training and support that enables sales teams,

• distributors, and customers to confidently recommend and specify Quanex
• finish solutions.

• Uses portfolio analytics to optimize product mix, pricing, profitability,

inventory, and lifecycle management decisions.

• Achieves measurable improvements in revenue growth, margin performance,

customer satisfaction, service levels, and portfolio simplification.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, materials science, chemistry,

• industrial design, marketing, or a related field; MBA or advanced technical
• degree is preferred.

• 5-7 years of professional experience, preferably in B2B product management,

• finishes, coatings, building products, hardware, or a manufacturing
• environment.

• Experience partnering with customers, engineering, operations, quality,

• sourcing, suppliers, sales, and marketing in the development and lifecycle
• management of products or finishes.

• Working knowledge of coating, plating, painting, anodizing, powder coating,

or related finishing technologies is strongly preferred.

• Experience leading portfolio harmonization, standardization, SKU

• rationalization, specification governance, or multi-site change initiatives
• is preferred.

• Demonstrated success in problem solving, idea generation, business-case

development, and cross-functional project execution.

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time.

• The salary range for this position is $100K - $120K with the potential to earn
• an annual bonus.

About Quanex, A Part of Something Bigger

• Quanex (NYSE: NX) is a global, publicly traded manufacturing company primarily
• serving OEMs in the fenestration, cabinetry, solar, refrigeration and outdoor
• products markets. We are A Part of Something Bigger by improving the performance
• and aesthetics of end products through continuous innovation, helping customers
• achieve greater production efficiencies, dedication to giving back to
• communities where we operate, producing shareholder value and helping our
• employees learn, grow, and thrive. Learn more at Quanex.com
• [https://www.quanex.com/].

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