Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
Product Management:
- Collaborate with the Director of Product Management to define and execute the product roadmap, aligning it with company goals and customer needs
- Executes category direction by working closely with cross functional product teams (innovation, operations, sales, marketing)
- Creates & owns product lifecycle roadmaps and manages accordingly for product launches including execution of post line review feedback
- Product Authority for all product and packaging specifications, pricing, plant packaging specs, program set up sheets and Supply Chain communications on product specs
- Manages the launch of sold-in products, in collaboration with the Sales Teams and Supply Chain team to deliver quality, competitive, products to customer shelf
- Builds and maintains assortment plans for complete product channel management
- Provides direction for POG development as required
- Be the point of contact for the Sales Team for Product deliverables
- Monitor product performance metrics post-launch and gather feedback to inform future product iterations.
- Regularly communicate product updates and progress to the Director of Product Management and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
Product Launches:
- Champions the Product Launch process & presentation to Sales complete with new product knowledge training, samples, sales marketing collateral and channel marketing strategy
- Owns and maintains the Sales Kit working closely with Design & Packaging teams to build marketing collateral to ultimately provide superior sales tools.
- Drives new product knowledge training across Sales Teams, Customer Service & European teams, as required
- Owns and manages the completion and maintenance of category PriceLists
Market Insights:
- Performs market store Comp Shops, compiles competitive product specification and retail price data and builds market landscape reports.
- Creates market analysis reports such as Gap Analysis, Retail Price Ladders.
- Identify opportunities for product enhancements and new features.
Continuous Improvement:
- Supports and/or lead continuous improvement initiatives
- Brings forward recommendations and insights to better improve processes as needed
- Conducts all work duties as per the Occupational Health & Safety Act & Regulations, the Health, Safety Environmental policies and Quality policies as established by Multy Home.
- Performs any other reasonable assignments given by the Department Management or his/her designates.
Requirements
Education & Experience:
- 5-10 years of and product development strategy and execution, in consumer packaged goods for the North American market
- Experience leading a team of product managers in project management of product launches to customers
- Understands the retail landscape and different channels (eg. DIY vs MASS vs CLUB)
- Analytical skills and channel management skills with a proven record of success for multi-channel product launches.
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