About the position
Serves as Color, Materials, and Finishes (CMF) product champion for specified product categories by developing, implementing, and managing product management activities to provide optimum sales and profits. Compiles and evaluates research on assigned product categories to establish product management strategies. Responsible for product direction, pricing, profit plans, project briefs and portfolio changes, to manage the product line(s) life cycle. Manages assigned product categories to create CMF strategy, lead materials assessments, engage with category teams and queue up new products for development.
Responsibilities
- Defines market opportunities, determined by an analytical assessment.
- Translates the market need into a product specific criteria and supports the product development and commercialization process with various product management tactics.
- Develops, drives, and implements individual product plans and strategy.
- Directs ongoing analysis and leads the application strategy to provide greatest financial performance.
- Provides direction, makes recommendations, and makes decisions in support of data management system functionality and usage.
- Creates necessary product sales support and training information including product (materials) summaries, competitive evaluations and pricing comparisons.
- Defines analytical tools and observes research, forming insight and observations necessary to provide insight necessary for decision making.
- Fields general questions including competitive inquiries and make decisions or recommendations to resolve.
- Owns the effort to resolve quality issues, evaluate and drive changes that affect P&L.
- Manages the product life cycle of the product lines from identification, introduction, through growth and maturity, to decline and discontinuation and provides input on product simplification/discontinuation for product lines.
- Acts as a mentor to help develop other Product colleagues.
- Conducts some research with customers, users and other stakeholders.
- Participate in and support new product exploration data inputs for an assigned product categories.
- Ability to serve as Core Team member representing the product category.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or Interior Design preferred.
- Proven understanding of product management best practices and processes, typically gained through 4-7+ years of experience in product management/product marketing or related experience.
- Contract furniture of capital goods marketing experience and/or premium consumer merchant experience preferred.
- Proven understanding of the customer and sales process with demonstrated customer and field interaction.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to investigate and analyze information to make recommendations.
- Ability to handle multiple concurrent responsibilities and work in a constantly changing environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple major projects and priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Outstanding leadership skills with proven creative problem-solving skills and the ability to lead through influence and relationship building within all areas of the company.
- Demonstrated analytical and project management skills.
- Strong business, financial, manufacturing, and purchasing acumen and integrate this knowledge into decision making.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites.
Nice-to-haves
- Prior product platform team and market research experience preferred.
- Demonstrated mentoring, people development, and leadership skills, including experience leading cross functional development teams.
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
