Product Management Intern - Consumer Goods

About Us

WHY PRODRIVEN GLOBAL BRANDS? BECAUSE WE ARE THE PROFESSIONAL’S CHOICE!  You will find our market leading products and brands on job sites all over the world.

Focusing on end users' needs and delivering exceptional customer experience drives our success. Our entire process—from research to engineering to manufacturing to commercialization—creates products that ensure ease of use, productivity, durability and safety for the end user. On jobsites across the world, ProDriven brands are most preferred.

Overview

Purpose of the Job:

The Product Management Intern will work closely with our Product Managers to assist in understanding the marketplace, evaluating competitive products, and execute tactics to support the product development process across their product categories.  We are looking for individuals who are curious about how products work and want to gain exposure to the process of bringing products to market from concept to production. Interns will be introduced to the process of identifying market opportunities through competitive analysis and end user research and translating those into possible future product development projects. A successful candidate will possess a unique blend of proactive attitude, an openness to try new things and a passion for learning. He/she will gain exposure to many cross-functional groups throughout the organization including brand, marketing, sales, channel, engineering, ID and sourcing and will be a key team member with assignments that directly contribute to active programs. Product management interns will learn through direct experience how to be a product category associate with direct influence on product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities (Essential Job Functions):

Business & Marketing Understanding

Assist in assigned activities to gain market awareness across the product portfolio(s). These plans are centered on end user, marketplace and competitive dynamics and help the Product Marketing team to take a holistic view in building a comprehensive and creative plan of attack.

End User Understanding & Market Research

Gain end user insights through a suite of qualitative and quantitative market research methodologies. The Product Management Intern will explore consumer research to help develop insights used to develop the next generation of core product categories.

Branding & Communication

The Product Management Intern will assist the Product Managers to execute tactics to build the brand and ensure all products and plans support the core brand positioning and messaging. This may include delivering against integrated marketing campaigns, implementing brand or end user promotions, and working with customer and channel marketing on customer marketing needs.

Business Analysis & Overall Portfolio Management

The Product Management Intern will gain an understanding of the P&L, key business metrics, and the levers that drive financial performance. He/she will be exposed to the development of business cases that include ROI and justification for utilization of resources and/or capital. The Product Management Inters may assist with compiling key market data that feeds understand of market conditions and an understanding of impact on both current and future portfolio plans.

Qualifications

Experience & Education:

Required:  

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, accounting, business economics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Three to five years of experience as a Business analyst or a similar role, preferably in financial/treasury applications.
• Experience gathering IT requirements from business users
• Intermediate skills in the Microsoft Office toolset
• Solid understanding of accounting and treasury processes and terminology.
• Proficiency in ERP system concepts in Order to Cash and Finance disciplines

Desired: 

• Ten years of experience as an IT Financial Business analyst or a similar role, preferably in financial/treasury applications.
• Intensive work on Oracle EnterpriseOne (JDE) financial modules or experience with other financial ERP packages including configuration and implementation
• Experience in Finance ERP integrations to external tools such as Bottomline, Concur, Trintech, Billtrust, Prisma, banking software, EDI etc
• Basic understanding of SQL and reporting tools such as PowerBI, ReportsNow for data extraction and analysis.

Key Competencies:

• Technical writing, cross functional flow chart, documentation.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Consummate team player who possesses detailed analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple projects.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Willingness and desire to learn cross functional processes.
• Drive for problem solving and simplification.

EEO Statement

ProDriven Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. ProDriven Brands  is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All qualified applicants to ProDriven Brands are considered for employment without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.  ProDriven Brands will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind based on these characteristics.

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