Associate Product Manager
Job Posting for Associate Product Manager at Ripple Junction Design Company
Do you have a passion for marketing? Do you enjoy a fast paced, fun, and growing company? Do you want to help us fulfill our mission of delivering products that WOW!
Help us grow our marketing team and take your career to the next level with Ripple Junction.
Associate Product Manager
Ripple Junction, an industry leader in licensed apparel and accessories, is currently seeking a Product Manager to own product marketing lifecycle management ranging from ideation to fully mature products. This would include identifying a marketing strategy for products, conducting competitor analysis and consumer/market research. Additionally, the role will shape communication and product positioning, identifying product features to highlight. You will also establish marketing campaigns for demand and selecting the appropriate pricing strategy. The successful candidate will also be skilled in data mining, postmortem, and P&L analysis around which products worked, and which did not, based on margins and cost.
This role will work closely with Product Development, eCommerce and Sales as well as the entire Marketing team. The candidate will have a sharp business mind as a natural born leader, you will have a strong talent for product coordination, cross functional collaboration, and delegation.
This position will be located in our West Chester, OH office
Day in the Life:
- Collect inputs from various parties to layout and execute our go to market product strategy, establishing a clear product vision based on multiple inputs.
- Working closely with sales and development to define the Channel Strategy including pricing and assortment
- Execute Consumer and retailer research to guide product decisions and knowledge.
- Owns total product lifecycle from inception to sunset.
- Utilize consumer research to understand the market and specific customer requirements.
- Identify growth opportunities by determining what categories to be in and why.
- Ongoing complete understanding of our competitors and a complete competitive assessment.
- Research and monitor trends
- Own the merchandising plan.
- Collect and analyze data that drive insights to understand, and revise plans as needed.
- Lead recaps and reporting for various programs. Measure ROI and report back to the team.
- Lead strategic initiatives that solve for key opportunities / challenges across markets.
- Lead internal team and stakeholder meetings, providing relevant actionable reporting.
- Manage and optimize program and vendor resources, including budget management.
- Build and maintain various project timelines and ensure all deliverables are met across agency partners, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
Must Haves
- College Degree in a related field like Marketing or Business Management
- 5 years of experience in a similar role
- At least 3 years of experience at a manager level
- Program management background
- Must be located in the greater Cincinnati area.
Nice to haves:
Passionate about pop culture.
Your Know-How
Your Know-How
- Strong customer obsession
- Mastery of both qualitative feedback and quantitative metrics
- Drive to execute at a quick pace to unlock maximum impact.
- Deep influence to align stakeholders to the strategy.
- Strong task management capabilities to manage multiple tracks of work and requirements.
- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven experience building positive working relationships and working in cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of best practices & current trends in customer journeys.
Why Ripple Junction?
At Ripple Junction our vision is to consistently bring joy to pop culture fans—and that joy starts in our employees. We offer a competitive benefit program, growth and development,
discounted merchandise and more. Ripple believes in the value of each employee and it is reflected in our one of a kind environment. Product or potluck—we work, grow and succeed together.
About Ripple Junction
Creating since 1992, Ripple Junction began as two guys with a van full of shirts at a Grateful Dead show. Today, we’re a leading designer and developer of licensed merchandise for globally recognized brands. For over 20 years we have been driven by passion and purpose. Ripple Junction is one of the most successful purveyors of licensed apparel and merchandise in the United States. We create a wide-range of top-quality products that appeal to the fans of our extensive roster of licensed properties, while generating strong sales for our numerous retail partners.
We believe in quality, creative products and a commitment to celebrating film, television, rock & roll, anime, science fiction, video games, and everything pop culture. Ripple Junction’s team of imaginative pop culture fanatics create the planet’s most awesome t-shirts and officially licensed products. We are armed with a passion for all things movies, television, anime, music, video games, and pop culture. And we’re fans first.
Job Type: Full-time, Exempt
Reports to: VP of Marketing & Product Management
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