Product Manager

Legend Brands • Burlington, WA

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About The Position

Legend Brands, an industry leader and long standing, stable company, combines over 185 years of experience in providing equipment, accessories and chemicals for professional cleaning, facility maintenance, portable environmental control, fire remediation and water damage restoration. Job Summary Under general supervision, the Product Manager is responsible for managing assigned product families and leads the Company’s Product Development process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration required.
• Product Manager I is the first-level classification in the Product Manager series and is intended for individuals with a minimum of 1-year related work experience.
• Product Lifecycle Management
• This is the next level of the Product Manager series and is required to have a minimum of 5 years of previous experience and working knowledge and competent demonstration of the following:
• Experience bringing successful new products to market.
• Voice of the Customer development.
• Buyer Personas.
• Market analysis.

Responsibilities

• Set product vision, strategy, roadmap and feature definition of new and existing products.
• Work with the Sales and Marketing to create the products position in the marketplace; define go-to-market strategies, create a consistent message, and product promotions.
• Manage the entire product portfolio, time-integrated plans for product introduction and product life cycles from strategic planning to tactical activities.
• Maintain the PLM (Product Life Cycle Management) report for use in decision making related to product development, forecasting, management review/metrics, creating promotions, and production planning.
• Assist with new product pricing and annual product pricing.
• Key contributor to multidisciplinary teams as it relates to current products.
• Responsible for benchmarking products against the competition (SWOT
• Gather emotional intelligence by working with Customers, Sales Partners, and Legend Brands’ associates to gather feedback on current product offerings by the competition.
• Manage key objectives for product line and business against strategic goals and initiatives.
• Manage transition planning with Operations.
• Develop and manage strategic plans, operational plans and activities, product and applications planning for the new markets.
• Provide new product information to the organization.
• Train sales associates on market information, plans, and tactics.
• Coordinate market research with Marketing. Responsible for coordinating new product research with Product Development, Marketing, and Sales.
• Coordinate with all groups/departments to ensure that the needs of the marketplace, distribution channel and Legend Brands associates are met.

Benefits

• Legend Brands offers an excellent benefits package with comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, leaves of absence, 10 paid holidays, generous paid time off, employer matching 401k PLUS a company-sponsored pension, and more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees