Dixon is looking for a Product Manager to understand consumer and customer needs, translate them into product specifications, and manage product lines to meet financial goals and improve profitability, processes, and customer satisfaction.
Requirements
- Be the Internal Expert at applying Dixon Capabilities to Consumer Needs.
- Knowledgeable in best practices and product management methodology
- Strong problem solving capabilities, with an orientation to details, at both the strategic and executional levels.
Responsibilities
- Understand Dixon and company wide capabilities (manufacturing, outsourcing), and ensure that customer Critical to Quality metrics are reflected in finished product.
- Conduct and document Competitive Analysis of products.
- Lead product line maintenance, including item set up, forecasting support (sales responsibility), and coordination of internal systems requirements, ensure costing up to date, make pricing recommendations.
- Lead marketing segment of PIF process for SKUs within assigned product categories.
- Lead SKU rationalization efforts, working collaboratively with the Director of Marketing.
- Deeply understand our business, industry, and customers; translate needs into business and technical requirements, product plans and user stories by partnering with various stakeholders across the organization.
- Implement products that are customer specials, PL or OEM, within scope of marketing plan.
Other
- Understand consumer and customer-required level of quality for assigned product categories.
- Work with appropriate internal functions / departments.
- Take lead for specifications and pricing.
- Relays and adapts Canson global brand strategy to the North American market place while ensuring a global consistency.
- Help to develop an integrated marketing plan working with the rest of the Marketing Team and Sales.
- Support sales objectives with product training.
- Understand product assortment (Canson and competitive) at key distributor accounts.
- Work collaboratively with Sales Account Managers and other Product Managers to expand placement of Canson products.
- Support marketing activity at key distributor accounts.
- Work collaboratively with Sales Account Manager for trade advertising/promotions based on individual distributor accruals/allowances, within scope of marketing plan.
- Be involved in Retail Specific requirements as appropriate to assigned product lines.
- Support company-wide initiatives as directed to improve profitability, processes, and customer satisfaction.
- Proactively identify gaps and contribute creative and innovative ideas that drive business value.
- Manages assigned product lines and marketing responsibilities to meet or exceed the key financial goals set for the position and the Marketing Group.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
- Excellent cross-functional project management skills
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to organize thoughts, communicate clearly, completely and concisely.
- Ability to effectively present information to top management, customers, and other employees of the organization.
- A strong portfolio of completed work that illustrates strong “solo” results as well as collaborative efforts.
- Ability to stay flexible and agile in fast paced and ever changing work environment.
- Ability to collaborate with others and drive results.
- Minimum of three years of experience in Product Management or Marketing related field.
- Requires Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and/or Business, or related experience.
