What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Development Manager position at American Tack & Hardware?
American Tack & Hardware offers designer home accent products designer wallplates, decorative night lights, innovative under cabinet lighting, battery operated lighting, timers, dimmers, and lighting controls. We distribute to custom designers, hotels, home centers, lighting showrooms & mass merchandisers throughout North America.
SUMMARY: Seeking a strategically focused product manager to oversee critical product categories for American Tack & Hardware. Responsibilities include ideating and managing new product portfolios, ensuring products meet consumer needs, managing product launches, analyzing market trends and product sales performance, competitive benchmarking, evaluating manufacturing facilities internationally, maintaining pricing, ensuring regulatory compliance of new products, onboarding overseas factories, and ensuring knowledge management within American Tack.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Establish and execute strategic product line roadmap
- Follow product development process, including creating business cases, managing development project timelines and facilitating handoffs to Operations, Supply Chain and Marketing.
- Collaborate with strategic overseas partners and American Tack engineers to develop technical specifications for new products
- Complete design modifications to drive portfolio health and maintain market relevancy
- Drive innovation for product line reviews with key distribution customers such as Home Depot, Menards, and Walmart
- Work with internal industrial designers and graphic designers to facilitate the development, production, and distribution of packaging, manuals, and marketing collateral to support products launches and enhancements
- Conduct internal product training for sales and support
- Develop production test plans for American Tack engineers and third party providers to execute
- Facilitate voice of customer/consumer research
- Tracks and reports on project deliverables, recommending any course corrections to ensure timely delivery, of products within budget.
- Execute product end-of-life management
- In the short term, this role will also assist in NetSuite implementation.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Marketing or a related field
- 3-5 years’ experience in Product Management, marketing, sales or engineering
- Experience working with mass merchandisers, home centers, or large retailers is desired, such as Home Depot, Lowes, Menards or Walmart
- Experience designing or managing portfolios of consumer products
- Desired experience in decorative home products and a working knowledge of modern décor styles
- Experience with NetSuite implementation is preferred, but not required.
- Excellent project management skills
- Strong communication skills (oral and written)
- Team oriented; multi-tasker; high attention to detail
- Ability to work in-office in Milwaukee, WI. Relocation is not provided.
- We are currently offering a flexible hybrid schedule with one day per week work from home.
Competitive compensation package based on experience and education
Benefits include:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) with partial matching
- Paid vacation and holidays
Apply on LinkedIn or email resume and cover letter to jobs@amertac.com.