Color Services Manager

Job Description

Join our team and show your colors to the world!

PPG Architectural Coatings is a respected leader in the paint industry. A business unit of PPG Industries, the world's leading coatings and specialty Products Company, we manufacture and sell our products through home centers, independent dealers, and through a network of company-owned stores across North America.

With over 900 retail centers in North America, we continue to grow. Currently we are seeking a "Color Services Manager" to join our team. Within our stores channel, we sell a wide range of architectural coatings and sundry items to industry, builders, contractors, and home owners. Experienced and entry level candidates are welcome to apply! Join a leading team today!

The Color Services Manager role will be responsible for the development and successful execution of strategic and tactical color management projects. Projects will be primarily focused on the PPG stores channel, but will have crossover applications to dealer and national accounts as well. The individual will be tasked with leading and managing initiatives and projects in the areas of color formula delivery, equipment and methodology standardization, annual equipment needs analysis and the deployment of tinting, mixing and matching equipment. Additionally, the individual will play a critical role in the planning, development, and implementation of PPG Next Generation colorants.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide quality service to PPG’s internal and external customers in all assigned tasks, while upholding PPG values at all times
• Support stores annual equipment needs by coordinating with Store Group Managers to identify gaps in individual PPG stores in the United Stated and Puerto Rico, and working closely with the Manager of Store Development, Purchasing, Equipment Vendors, etc. to deploy assets while managing the overall equipment budget.
• Responsible for working with IT, Store Operations, Marketing, PPGAC Color Labs, etc. to manage formula deployment infrastructure and updates for PPG stores.
• Work closely with Marketing, R&D, Color Labs, Supply Chain, Finance, PPG Management Steering Team and other internal functional groups to define, develop and implement the Next Generation PPG universal colorant system. Including refinement of an overall project timelines, coordinating work streams, managing colorant field testing, reporting results to senior leadership, and implementing the program in stores, dealers & national accounts in the US, Canada & Puerto Rico.
• Maintain store equipment databases annually including additions, deletions, research, corrections and cleaning
• Identify and leverage opportunities to continually improve the quality of color management systems, processes and standards
• Leverage existing and implement new technologies in the area of color management
• Engage and partner with third party vendors, IT and other parties as required
• Takes a “hands on” approach to data clean up as required

Qualifications

Requires:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business
• 2 to 5 years of experience in Sales, Product Marketing or similar role
• Strong working knowledge of PPG sales channels and PPG paint and sundry product offerings
• An understanding of IT systems, databases and proven competence in analysis
• Strong project management skills
• Strong oral and written communications skills at all levels of the organization

Success Factors – Prime Success Factors (focus on results, drive change, promote teamwork, build trust & respect, understand market & customer perspective) plus the following: manage complexity, develop others, mobilize resources, and communicate and share information.


About Us
PPG Industries’ vision is to continue to be the world’s leading coatings and specialty Products Company. Through leadership in innovation, sustainability, and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. Founded in 1883, PPG has global headquarters in Pittsburgh and operates in nearly 70 countries around the world. Sales in 2014 were $15.4 billion.

PPG Architectural Coatings impressive line-up of residential, commercial, and industrial paint brands offers a wide range of choices to meet everyone's needs – from consumers to interior designers, painting contractors to property managers, and developers to architects.

Join an industry leading company!
Apply today!
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PPG prides itself on the quality of its employees and as such, candidates who receive a job offer will be required to successfully pass a hair drug/toxins test and a background check.

PPG Industries, Inc. offers an opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a fulfilling workplace for employees, creates an environment for continuous learning, and embraces the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected status. PPG is an Equal Opportunity Employer.