1. What is a Product Manager at Itw Performance Polymers?
A Product Manager at Itw Performance Polymers plays a pivotal role in driving the growth, profitability, and strategic direction of our highly engineered industrial brands. Operating within the broader Illinois Tool Works (ITW) ecosystem, this division specializes in manufacturing advanced adhesives, sealants, coatings, and lubricants for industrial, OEM, and maintenance markets. As a product leader, you are responsible for managing the entire product lifecycle, from customer-back innovation and development to pricing, portfolio optimization, and market commercialization.
Your impact in this role is direct and highly visible. You will manage a diverse product portfolio, ensuring that our solutions meet the rigorous demands of industrial end-users while maximizing business profitability. By leveraging the famous ITW Business Model—specifically the 80/20 principle—you will identify high-value opportunities, simplify product lines, and eliminate complexity. This requires a unique blend of technical understanding, commercial acumen, and strategic vision to ensure our products remain market leaders in a highly competitive industrial landscape.
What makes this role exceptionally rewarding is the cross-functional influence you will wield. You are not managing in a vacuum; you will collaborate daily with Operations, R&D, Sales, and Leadership teams across key locations such as Glenview, IL, Itasca, IL, and our manufacturing plants. You will act as the central hub, aligning technical capabilities with commercial realities to deliver high-quality solutions that solve real-world customer problems.

