Accessories Product Manager

Slate Auto•Troy, MI

1d•$140,000

About The Position

At Slate, we’re building safe, reliable vehicles that people can afford, personalize and love—and doing it here in the USA as part of our commitment to reindustrialization. The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate, because people should have control over how their trucks look, feel, and represent them. Responsible for translating customer needs into useful products that foster deep brand connections through expression; drive the end-to-end product lifecycle development, with extensive creative partnership with our Brand team; enable world-class personalization for our customers by bringing products to market; use strategic and quantitative analysis to support recommendations for new products, assign features and specs, facilitate trade-off decision making, and lead business execution; responsible for assigned product items for performance, customer satisfaction, and company impact; conduct market studies and keep product offerings fresh with our customer base; utilize project management, cost & price analysis, revenue assessment, risk management, resource management, process improvement, Epicor ERP, MS Project, SAP, Jira, Smartsheet, and 3DX to perform duties; execute and improve the product development process, and then manage the end-to-end cycle of approved products on the line plan, including product sunset management; collaborate and act as project manager across Design, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Brand and Commercial teams to ensure Slate accessories are inspiring, on-time, and on budget; partner with Brand and Legal teams to secure product licensing and reseller agreements; create presentations and documentation, and present to cross-functional leadership including product updates and recommendations; support team and project work; perform quantitative analysis for product recommendations, market studies and customer trend analysis, strategic product positioning, competitive benchmarking, and trade-off decision making; create Product Development Process framework; and use Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and business case planning.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Information Technology, Program & Project Management, or in a related field of study (will accept equivalent foreign degree)
Two (2) years in the position above, as a Program Manager, as a Project Coordinator, as a Technical Program Manager, as a Vendor Coordinator, or in a related occupation
Experience must include two (2) years’ use of all the following: project management, cost & price analysis, revenue assessment, risk management, resource management, process improvement, Epicor ERP, MS Project, SAP, Jira, Smartsheet, and 3DX
Will also accept any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Responsibilities

translate customer needs into useful products that foster deep brand connections through expression
drive the end-to-end product lifecycle development, with extensive creative partnership with our Brand team
enable world-class personalization for our customers by bringing products to market
use strategic and quantitative analysis to support recommendations for new products, assign features and specs, facilitate trade-off decision making, and lead business execution
responsible for assigned product items for performance, customer satisfaction, and company impact
conduct market studies and keep product offerings fresh with our customer base
utilize project management, cost & price analysis, revenue assessment, risk management, resource management, process improvement, Epicor ERP, MS Project, SAP, Jira, Smartsheet, and 3DX to perform duties
execute and improve the product development process, and then manage the end-to-end cycle of approved products on the line plan, including product sunset management
collaborate and act as project manager across Design, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Brand and Commercial teams to ensure Slate accessories are inspiring, on-time, and on budget
partner with Brand and Legal teams to secure product licensing and reseller agreements
create presentations and documentation, and present to cross-functional leadership including product updates and recommendations
support team and project work
perform quantitative analysis for product recommendations, market studies and customer trend analysis, strategic product positioning, competitive benchmarking, and trade-off decision making
create Product Development Process framework
use Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and business case planning