Sr. Manager -Analytical Sciences and Technology

Sr. Manager - Analytical Sciences and Technology

PPG Industries

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Join PPG as a visionary leader in Corporate Science & Technology (S&T) Analytical Science, where you will spearhead sophisticated, cutting-edge analytical teams at the Allison Park and Monroeville sites while serving as the regional analytical coordinator for the Americas. In this high-impact senior-level role, you will command a dynamic organization of 3-5 teams totaling 50-70 talented professionals, with 5-10 direct reports-including 2-4 senior technical leaders and 4-6 group leaders. Reporting to the Director of Material Science and Analytical Technology (MSAT) and accountable to the SSG OLED Business Director, you will drive the mission of creating tangible value for PPG through world-class analytical science.

This is a strategically expansive position that offers unparalleled visibility across the entire PPG enterprise-from raw materials and production to technical service, customer-facing challenges, and global R&D innovation. You will deploy a sophisticated suite of advanced chemical analysis tools and characterization techniques to solve complex, high-stakes problems wherever they arise, whether supporting emergent commercial root-cause investigations with direct customer interaction or pioneering front-end research to deepen fundamental understanding of coatings technology.

The Sr. Manager role is intellectually demanding and multifaceted: ensuring instruments operate at peak performance, tests are executed with rigor, quality standards are uncompromising, and characterization delivers actionable insights. You will balance a broad portfolio of responsibilities-ranging from strategic resource allocation across new product development (NPD), field support, resin synthesis, and specialty groups (OLED/photochromics), to managing a $15MM annual budget, capital planning, and internal/external billing recovery. By charging appropriately for non-R&D work and ensuring costs are recovered back into the R&D budget, you will maintain financial equilibrium while driving profitability and resource efficiency.

Stakeholder management is at the heart of this role: navigating delicate relationships across the board, technology leadership, product portfolio teams, regional/global technical directors, legal, finance, sales, and beyond. Through strategic planning, agile reprioritization, clear communication of project status, risks, and benefits, and influential leadership, you will build trust, resolve critical business challenges, and position yourself as a key player in PPG's success. The upside is extraordinary-broad exposure to every facet of the company, deep immersion in hard science, and the opportunity to showcase your abilities while forging lasting relationships across the organization.

This is not just a leadership position; it is a platform for sophisticated problem-solving, value creation, and career-defining impact at one of the world's leading coatings innovators. If you thrive on complexity, scientific excellence, and strategic influence in a matrixed, fast-moving environment, this role offers a rare chance to shape PPG's future through analytical mastery.

Strategic Project and Resource Management Responsibilities

• Ensure Analytical resources are properly balanced and deployed appropriately into NPD projects, field support, Resin Synthesis, and Specialty Synthesis Group (OLED/Photochromics) support.

• Set the strategic guidance for and staffing of deformulation and field research.

• Partner with the digital team and lead the analytical digital strategy, ensuring digital transformation for AI adoption and readiness.

• Manage all instrument resources and capital planning.

• Manage a $15MM/y budget as well as the billing process with customers (internally and externally).

• Lead quality for analytical organization, including compliance with quality standards.

• Set strategic innovation goals and support forward-looking analytical techniques and test drills

• Develop and retain analytical expertise in strategic capabilities

• Create go/no-go recommendations for supporting the various portfolio projects as well as help to identify new project/research opportunities in conjunction with other research leaders

• Responsible for prioritizing and resourcing numerous projects and business critical tasks simultaneously and to lead the team to deliver effective and timely results through setting of defined technical milestones

• Clearly articulate project status, benefits, hurdles, and risks regularly through written and oral updates

• Agility to quickly redeploy team to highest priority projects/tasks, as part of the team's responsibilities is to help businesses solve critical challenges, such as customer issues

• Collaborate and communicate across all business units and multiple functions (ie. Legal, finance, product and portfolio management, tech service, and sales), particularly helping to communicate with Regional and Global Technical Directors and the CICLT

Strategic Technical Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategic instrument asset management and acquisition through capital recommendations and fundamental research

• Advise leaders for multiple Global Capability Teams (specifically Deformulation/Competitive Analysis and Regulatory) and help to educate/share capabilities throughout PPG

• Develop and execute IP strategy to broadly protect PPG's competitive advantage by working closely with technical and business experts

• Coordinate Americas Regional Analytical

People Development Responsibilities:

• Provide regular growth feedback to help develop BS chemists (H-G Bands) as well as senior PhD researchers (G through F-band) and People leaders.

• Contribute to assessing talent gaps and strategic talent growth areas

Qualifications

• Education: PhD with at least 12 years of relevant experience (or M.S. with 18 years, B.S. with 22 years); statistics and analytical specialty preferred.

• Leadership Experience: Proven track record leading analytical teams or functions, or experience as an analytical chemist transitioning into leadership roles.

• Soft Skills: Demonstrated ability to drive change in uncertain environments; adaptability, versatility, and strong collaboration skills for building relationships in a matrixed organization; ability to influence without authority; leadership prowess in enhancing employee engagement.