Associate Product Manager

Alto-Shaam • Menomonee Falls, WI

14d • Onsite

About The Position

The ideal candidate for an Associate Product Manager would be able to support the Senior Product Manager team across assigned halo categories throughout the product line life cycle, from strategic planning through tactical execution. This role involves assisting in maintaining product roadmaps, gathering customer feedback, building competitive comparisons, and developing product expertise to support the sales force and distribution network. Additionally, the Associate Product Manager will serve as a key resource for product pricing data within the ERP environment, partner with the Director of Pricing & Product Management on the Pricing Roadmap, and help identify pricing gaps and margin leakage. The role also involves utilizing AI tools to enhance research, data summarization, and documentation, and identifying automation opportunities within pricing operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, finance, economics, engineering, supply chain, or a related field.
• 0–3 years of professional experience in product management, pricing, finance, analytics, marketing, or sales support.
• Relevant internship and co-op experience will be considered.
• Working proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; comfort learning ERP and quoting platforms (Oracle and AutoQuotes preferred).
• Quantitative aptitude. Genuinely enjoys numbers, math, and working through a problem to a defensible answer.
• Attention to detail. Treats data accuracy as a personal standard; builds checks into their own work.
• Curiosity and drive. A self-starter who asks why, teaches themselves what they need, and moves work forward with limited direction.
• Presence and communication. Confident and credible in front of sales teams and senior leadership; explains analysis in plain, decision-ready language.
• Appetite for AI. Actively interested in learning and applying AI tools such as Claude to everyday analytical, research, and communication work — with sound judgment about where they help and where they do not.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Product Manager team across assigned halo categories throughout the product line life cycle, from strategic planning through tactical execution.
• Assist in maintaining product roadmaps and in gathering the voice of the customer — organizing dealer, consultant, and end-user feedback into usable insight.
• Build and maintain competitive comparisons, product matrices, and specification data that support product differentiation and business-case development.
• Develop into a product expert on assigned categories — supporting sales force and distribution network training, and participating in customer-facing sales support alongside a Senior Product Manager.
• Monitor the competitive landscape and proactively share findings with the product management and sales organizations.
• Serve as a key resource within Alto-Shaam’s ERP environment (Oracle) for product pricing data — supporting list pricing setup, pricing structures, and discount management, and helping ensure pricing records remain accurate, complete, and current.
• Partner with the Director of Pricing & Product Management to help build and maintain the Pricing Roadmap, contributing the analysis that shapes forward-looking pricing strategy.
• Help identify gaps in our pricing relative to the competitive set, along with sources of margin leakage, and bring forward recommendations to close them.
• Use Alto-Shaam’s approved AI tools to accelerate competitive research, data summarization, and documentation; build and share repeatable prompts and workflows so the wider team benefits.
• Identify and propose automation opportunities within pricing operations, and help set the standard for responsible, effective AI use across Product Management.

Benefits

• Earn an annual bonus on your gross income, which has averaged 15% over the past five years
• Low Cost premiums for full coverage healthcare with wellness participation
• 11 paid holidays and generous earned PTO
• Advancement opportunities to grow through our career ladders program
• Tuition assistance to pursue a degree or certification
• Fitness reimbursement for gym memberships, classes, or training sessions
• Biannual performance reviews with yearly merit increases
• Annual free lunch with the company president to celebrate your work anniversary

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level