Medline Industries is looking to fill a Director Product Management role within their Textiles division to oversee and manage product teams for sourcing, marketing, product development, sales support, and financial growth of multiple product categories. The role aims to assist with or prepare long-term business and marketing strategies and provide subject matter expertise for complex product lines.
Requirements
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
Responsibilities
- Negotiate pricing with vendors for raw materials and finished goods.
- Develop and implement comprehensive marketing plans and promotional programs for existing products to include product strategy development, pricing strategy, collateral creation and brand management
- Review monthly financial performance and determine contributing factors.
- Offer solutions for detrimental sales or cost trends.
- Prepare product forecasts to include revenue and expense expectations.
- Analyze sales trends over time and impact of competitive strategies.
- Work with Product Teams, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Engineering to reduce Cost of Goods by assessing packaging, alternate materials, new sources of material, stocking, make to order, direct to customer shipments, etc.
Other
- Oversee and manage Product Teams (may have multiple reports including Senior Manager and Manager levels) for the sourcing, marketing, product development, sales support and financial growth of multiple product categories.
- Assist with or prepare the long-term business and marketing strategy.
- Provide subject matter expertise for complex, generally more established product lines, largest divisional product lines, or multiple product categories
- Develop and deliver training materials for internal stakeholders, sales forces and customers.
- Create sales tools.
