POOLCORP is looking to hire an Above Ground Pool Product Manager to develop and execute strategic plans for product categories, manage vendor relationships, and drive innovation to achieve growth and profitability for the company.
Requirements
- 5 years of experience in product development and management.
- Expertise with successful product launches preferred.
- Significant experience in a dynamic product management role in consumer or industrial products.
- Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle including innovation assessment, competitive analysis, ROI, pricing, product launch, and promotional plans.
- High level of competence with standard office software: MS Office, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.
Responsibilities
- Develops and leads the strategic plan for the category and manages the vendor and product portfolio.
- Creates and manages sample and display programs.
- Acts as the visionary for the category, manages new product introductions, obsolescent inventory management, and collaborates with marketing and other internal departments to ensure vision, strategy, and timeline alignment.
- Ensures vendor and internal initiatives are aligned, identifies process and product gaps and creates solutions.
- Creates training content for internal and customer use, ensures success of factory training events, dealer conferences, and trade shows.
- Analyzes consumer needs and current market trends to determine new product opportunities and prioritize according to our business strategy.
- Creates product strategy documents that describe business cases, market requirements, pricing & positioning, marketing strategy.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business.
- Highly effective cross-functional team management.
- Previous experience delivering finely tuned product marketing strategies.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills.
- A valid driver’s license, a satisfactory driving record – no more than 2 violations within 3 years.
- 21 years of age or older to apply.
- Remote within the U.S.
