Job Posting for Product Manager at Baudville Brands

The product manager is responsible for the continued development and overall management of Baudville’s direct to consumer tangible product line. Responsibilities to include ensuring appropriate product mix and associated page allocation within the various catalog types, total lifecycle management, assisting in creative direction and approval coordination, financial evaluation of new and existing product lines/categories, product positioning and coordination of the entire launch cycle from inception of an idea through original sourcing. Person in this role should have advanced analytical abilities and a keen sense for great design. The position also requires management of a staff and assets, and great coordination and collaboration with cross functional teams.Please note: This role is not a technology product manager but a physical goods product manager and requires regular on-site duties for review of product disposition and collaboration with the product team.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Managing to success, products and product categories. Understand product and category relationships to the total product offering and managing those products through their life cycle.
Elements of success include sales growth in both new and legacy products/categories, managing product mix, developing appropriate pricing models and product positioning as it relates to merchandising and management of the total lifecycle of a product.
Manage and evaluate product from resource allocation through revenue generation. Oversee the development cycle to ensure appropriate products are created to meet revenue goals.
Consistently seek to understand the Baudville customer and be a steward of serving that customer in the best way possible through product development, positioning, surveying, internal or external focus groups, customer calling, etc.Lead a team of Baudville Product Specialists who will support the product development process at all stages while being responsible for all custom ordering and sales presentations for the Baudville brand
Create product positioning and work directly with Marketing to ensure proper execution and exposure of products. Ability to measure success of these strategies.
Work directly with the sourcing to ensure our vendors are meeting appropriate product quality, service, and pricing standards while ensuring on-time delivery of scheduled product launches.
Understanding how to use both legacy data and trend information to justify a product launch.
Make recommendations for mark-up and mark-down rates, and selling prices for merchandise while maximizing margin
Leverage internal sales data and data from vendors and partners to make informed timely decisions

KEY MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

Sustainable growth in top three strategic priority categories – Everyday Gifts, Awards, Promotional

Manage to product P&L revenue and spend targets
Positive return on ad spend across all legacy categories
Maintaining and/or increasing our corporate margin %
Sales support leading to at 20-30% growth in custom orders

IDEAL CANDIDATE TRAITS:

Enthusiastic about new product ideas and a passion for our product offering
Strong organizational and time management skills required. Must be deadline oriented.
High energy, resourceful attitude
Experience working in a cross-functional role with a customer-first mindset
Believe in data-driven decision making, test and learn. Ready to roll up sleeves to understand the data and find opportunities
Strong communicator: Capable to craft clear and compelling presentations and communications
Good organizer capable of planning and prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines
Bold thinker: Excited by big ideas and bold change, ready to do what it takes to bring others along
Ability to lead a team and motivate others

REQUIREMENTS:

5 years of experience in product development and/or management
Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant subject
Affinity for working both individually and in a team
Ability to monitor and manage budgets
Maintain and balance both a high standard of quality and speed in productivity
Ability to negotiate and navigate terms of agreements
Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to the job
Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
Able to work with sensitive and/or confidential information
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Our Winning Culture Offers

A world-class work environment:
- West Michigan’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to work for 13 times
- National Best & Brightest winner for 9 consecutive years
- 101 Best & Brightest in Wellness winner 9 times
- 4-time Great Place to Work Certified™. (https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7012443)
Performance-based compensation commensurate with experience including annual salary and discretionary bonus
Stability of a privately held, employee focused business with 38 years of rich and diverse history
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long-Term Disability, and Short-Term Disability
Company sponsored 401K with 100% vested match
Tuition Reimbursement
Paid Parental Leave
Peer group of proven winners – ready to embrace the same and grow our successful business to new levels.

At Baudville Brands, we offer a challenging but rewarding work environment where employees respect and recognize each other. We are dedicated to workforce diversity and a drug- and smoke-free workplace. Baudville Brands is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race, religion, color, national origin, marital status, genetic information, height, weight, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected characteristic. We welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview process a great one, please let us know.

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