Product Manager

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.

 

Supervision Responsibility

None

 

Essential Duties

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with a disability to perform the essential duties.

The list below is intended to be illustrative of the responsibilities of this position and is not all encompassing, nor does it constitute an employment agreement, and the duties may change at any time.


* 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.

Minimum Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the education, experience, certification and/or licensure required.

An equivalent combination of education and experience to perform the essential duties and meet the necessary employment standards ma...