Biodiesel Product Manager

Your calendar tends to split between customer-facing sales support, internal cross-functional coordination, and the steady cadence of pricing and margin work — sitting with fleet customers on application questions, working with operations on supply commitments, modeling pricing scenarios as feedstock and RIN values move. Volume sold, contribution margin, and customer retention drive the visible scorecard.

What gets uncomfortable is the commodity-margin volatility — biodiesel economics shift with soybean oil prices, RIN values, and federal credits, and the PM navigates customer pricing through that volatility. Variance across employers is sharp: refiner-owned biodiesel PM roles sit within a broader fuels portfolio; pure-play biodiesel companies concentrate the PM accountability heavily.

The role tends to fit folks who carry commercial instincts, fuel-market literacy, and comfort with cyclical commodity economics. RFS regulatory experience and energy-markets backgrounds anchor the path. The trade-off is the policy dependency of biodiesel margins — single program changes can move the line's economics significantly within a quarter.