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Sr. Manager -Analytical Sciences and Technology

PPG Industries, Inc
$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
United States, Pennsylvania, Hampton Township
4325 Rosanna Drive (Show on map)
Apr 02, 2026
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. About us: Here at PPG we make it happen, and we seek candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our values, with the commitment and drive to strive today to do better than yesterday - everyday. PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD 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. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @ PPG on Twitter. At PPG we use AI in the hiring process to make the process more efficient. AI tools do not make hiring decisions. You can learn more by going to https://careers.ppg.com/us/en/candidate-resources. PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees. We offer 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, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email recruiting@ppg.com. PPG values your feedback on our recruiting process. We encourage you to visit Glassdoor.com and provide feedback on the process, so that we can do better today than yesterday. Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process. A propos de nous : PPG : NOUS PROTEGEONS ET EMBELLISSONS LE MONDE Grace a son leadership en matiere d'innovation, de durabilite et de couleur, PPG aide les clients des marches industriels, du transport, des produits de consommation et de la construction, ainsi que des marches secondaires, a ameliorer davantage de surfaces de plus de facons que toute autre entreprise. Pour en savoir plus, visitez www.ppg.com et suivez @PPG sur X. The PPG Way 2030 Nous placons le client au cur de nos actions Proactifs. Audacieux. Fiables. Tout ce que nous faisons commence avec nos clients. Nous les ecoutons et agissons rapidement jusqu'a ce que nous ayons repondu a toutes leurs attentes. Le succes de nos clients nous fait grandir. Nous agissons avec sens et rapidite Agiles. Rationnels. Autonomes. Nous prenons des risques calcules pour depasser nos concurrents. Nous faisons preuve de proactivite et d'agilite dans notre maniere de travailler, en nous appuyant sur des donnees fiables pour developper des solutions qui creent de la valeur. Nous operons avec excellence Efficaces. Cooperatifs. Responsables. Quel que soit notre role, nous identifions les problemes, nous prenons nos responsabilites et nous apportons toujours des solutions. Nous agissons avec proactivite et reactivite dans une demarche d'amelioration continue pour obtenir des resultats. Nous soutenons nos equipes terrain et operationnelles qui incarnent PPG chaque jour aupres de nos clients. Notre ambition est de gagner Tournes vers l'avenir. Determines. Ambitieux. Nous avons a cur de developper notre activite et de servir au mieux nos clients. Nous obtenons des resultats, adoptons pleinement les nouvelles technologies et faisons de notre agilite et de notre rapidite une force. Nous sommes fiers de PPG Forts. Unis. Passionnes. Nous travaillons en toute securite, agissons avec integrite et valorisons la diversite des points de vue. Nous celebrons nos succes et sommes fiers de l'impact positif que nous creons ensemble pour proteger et embellir le monde. Chez PPG, nous utilisons l'intelligence artificielle dans le processus de recrutement pour le rendre plus efficace. Les outils d'IA ne prennent pas les decisions d'embauche. Vous pouvez en savoir plus en visitant le site: https://careers.ppg.com/fr/fr/candidate-resources. PPG offre l'egalite des chances a tous les candidats et employes. Nous offrons l'opportunite de developper votre carriere dans un environnement qui favorise l'epanouissement professionnel, soutient l'apprentissage continu et valorise les idees ainsi que la diversite de chacun. Tous les candidats qualifies seront consideres pour un emploi sans distinction de sexe, grossesse, race, couleur, croyance, religion, origine nationale, age, handicap, statut marital, statut d'ancien combattant, orientation sexuelle, identite ou expression de genre. Si vous avez besoin d'un amenagement en raison d'un handicap, veuillez envoyer un e-mail a recruiting@ppg.com. Les fourchettes de salaires et les avantages chez PPG peuvent varier selon la localisation, ce qui nous permet de remunerer les employes de maniere competitive sur differents marches geographiques. PPG prend en compte plusieurs facteurs pour determiner la remuneration, notamment, mais sans s'y limiter, les competences, l'experience et la formation, les qualifications et le niveau d'etudes, les licences et certifications, ainsi que d'autres besoins organisationnels. D'autres formes d'incitation peuvent s'appliquer. Nos programmes d'avantages sociaux sont concus pour soutenir la sante et le bien-etre de nos employes. Toute couverture d'assurance et tout avantage seront conformes aux termes et conditions des plans applicables ainsi qu'aux documents regissant ces plans. Les avantages vous seront expliques par votre recruteur lors du processus d'embauche. PPG accorde de l'importance a vos commentaires sur notre processus de recrutement. Nous vous encourageons a visiter Glassdoor.com et a donner votre avis sur le processus.