Product Marketing Manager - Commercial (Remote)

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; The role is accountable for the finishes roadmap, portfolio simplification, growth, profitability, quality, and customer adoption.

Bonus Potential
~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
~ 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.