Senior Product Manager

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The Sr Product Manager is a key leader within the North American business unit, specifically responsible for setting the long term product category direction to drive growth and profitability through the product portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing team of 1-3 people for the given category.
• Develops and implements product portfolio strategies that provide industry leadership in exterior doors and profitable growth for Masonite.
• Manages all products in assigned portfolio throughout all stages of their life cycle.
• Develops strategies for development, introduction, continuing contribution, and discontinuance, while maximizing overall growth and profitability within the P&L.
• Executes and maintains a product portfolio strategy to guide new product development efforts and leads cross-functional efforts with the New Product Development team and all functional areas and locations.
• Monitors current, and anticipates future, consumer and customer needs and preferences by working closely with Sales and Market Intelligence.
• Manages product pricing, both new and existing, through competitive research, internal data analysis and sales interaction.
• Provides recommendations on pricing strategies which enhances portfolio profitability.
• Works closely with Category Management team on optimizing product portfolio and pricing strategy by customer.
• Leads Discovery work to generate new products and platforms within appropriate target segments.
• Understands, drives voice of the customer and consumer and translates into business opportunities.
• Supports development of annual product marketing plans.
• Develops promotional plans, advertising campaigns, catalogs, brochures, displays, exhibits, and other support materials.
• Steers all engineering and manufacturing activities concerned with new product or new technology development and product maintenance activities related to products.
• Ensures accurate forecasting information, particularly as it pertains to new, discontinued or promotional products.
• Maintains on-going competitive intelligence to guide pricing, promotions, field activity, customer service and product development.
• Relates and recommends changes in established market distribution and strategy as necessitated by market and consumer preferences.
• Coordinates the interpretation of codes and distribution of this information to the sales organization and customers.
• Seeks legal advice from corporate counsel to ensure propriety of pricing mechanism, trademarks, product labeling, policies and contractual agreements.
• Demonstrates competency in the Masonite values.
  
  

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Possess understanding of frameworks needed to manage a product line across all stages of the product life cycle.
• Ability to manage 1-3 people.
• Flexible and able to deal with ambiguity.
• Able to think strategically while also enjoying tactical execution of programs.
• Analytical and creative problem solver.
• Strong on planning and attention to detail.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft project or similar platform preferred.
• Candidate must possess strong skills in written and oral communication with all levels of internal management and outside stakeholders.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in marketing or related field; MBA/MS preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years business experience, with 3-5 years relevant experience in product management, or other related sales or marketing experience preferred with the drive and determination to grow within a given role and within the organization.
• Travel ~25% for customer visits and line reviews, trade shows, manufacturing plants and other business needs.
  
  

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