Product Manager (Merchandising)

Horizon Group USA, Inc.•New Providence, NJ

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for managing our crafts and activity kits products from costing to pre-production. Our ideal candidate has previous hard goods product management experience that includes managing multiple SKU’s at a time. To be successful in this role, you must thrive in an incredibly fast paced environment, have a good understanding of the product life cycle, and have the ability to work within tight deadlines while managing multiple products at once.

Requirements

3-5 years of product management experience in a CPG/company (hardgoods preferred)
Advanced skills in Powerpoint and Excel required
Ability to work on tight deadlines and fast paced environment required
Strong attention to details required

Nice To Haves

Sourcing, Costing, Product Development and/or Supply Chain background a plus
Experience communicating with overseas suppliers preferred
Strong sense of fashion, color, and design

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product development and design teams to generate new product concepts through brainstorm meetings, trend-shopping and market research
Facilitate the creation of sales presentations with mock-up samples, prototypes and presentation boards
Conduct daily communication with overseas office on issues of new product development/sourcing/costing and keeping a status of all pending projects
Facilitate item, costing, and margin information to sales team on assigned programs
Create, and keep a status of, all art requests for new products, packaging revisions and production needs
Review and comment on all production approval samples and provide customer-required samples to sales team
Complete new item setup and other product & marketing related forms of production items for retail customers
Work with members from cross-functional teams of Planning, Marketing Ops, Sales, Compliance, Data Management on all assigned programs
Help drive expansion with sales presentations, samples review, reaction to buyer comments and product execution
Provide guidelines, product direction, pricing, samples and other presentation tools for industry trade shows and events.