Product Manager

Myers Industries Inc•Milford, OH

About The Position

This Product Management role is essential to developing and improving Buckhorn’s product portfolio to support continued growth and success. The position requires technical expertise in product development within an injection-molding environment and an understanding of engineering’s role in the process. The successful candidate will be organized and management-focused, able to manage multiple projects and understand production and manufacturing costs. The role collaborates across marketing, sales, customer service, branch operations, manufacturing, and procurement. It leads the product portfolio and/or company-wide commercialization process, chairs the Product Review Meeting within Sales & Operations Planning, manages key Sales & Marketing performance indicators, commercialization stage-gate metrics, and project delivery statistics, and participates in the overall Sales & Operations Planning process. The position works in a typical office and plant environment and requires travel of 20%, with more travel on an exception basis. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear and taste or smell. Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; an engineering degree is preferred.
Technical expertise in an injection-molding environment.
Prior leadership experience.
Four or more years in a related role.
Ability to recognize and envision the future and develop effective plans.
Communication skills to express ideas and concepts verbally, visually, and in writing, and gain support for them.
Team orientation, customer communication, presentation, and people skills.
Ability to gather and analyze information quickly to drive decisions in a fast-paced work environment.
Systematic, process-oriented approach; analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Comfort navigating speed, change, and ambiguity.
Proven high-level project management using the stage-gate process.
Proven leadership of cross-functional teams that deliver sustainable process, financial, and operational results.
Proactive, results-focused approach and commitment to continuous improvement.
Planning and organization skills to set targets and milestones and follow through on commitments.
Ability to motivate others to perform at a high level without administrative authority.
Ability to travel 20%; more travel may be required on an exception basis.

Nice To Haves

Engineering degree.
MBA or relevant certifications.

Responsibilities

Define the product strategy and development roadmap.
Lead and manage the Product Engineering Team.
Establish baseline internal production costs.
Define the optimal product mix with the Marketing Manager.
Lead periodic product portfolio reviews, including ABCxyz and profitability analyses, to determine SKU rationalization.
Assess competitive challenges and deliver clear strategic recommendations.
Deliver product cost-reduction opportunities.
Support Marketing with competitor intelligence.
Work with internal and external subject-matter experts to scope, design, test, and deliver product solutions.
Work with sales, customer service, and operations to review and refine customer service policies consistent with market expectations and business capabilities.
Create and maintain the by-SKU Phase-In/Phase-Out plan.
Lead the product portfolio and/or company-wide commercialization process.
Chair the Product Review Meeting within Sales & Operations Planning.
Manage key Sales & Marketing performance indicators, commercialization stage-gate metrics, and project delivery statistics.
Actively participate in the overall Sales & Operations Planning process.