Acuity Inc. is looking to accelerate sales growth, product vitality, and margin improvements across assigned product categories by hiring a Product Manager to manage their Strips and Low Bay lighting product category. This role will involve leading the planning, execution, and delivery of new product development projects and managing the product portfolio.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of product development life cycle.
- Proficiency in project management tools and software.
- Knowledge of lighting industry sales channels, key influencers, and primary decision makers.
- Direct knowledge of lighting products, applications, and key competitors.
- Have a basic knowledge of manufacturing processes and techniques that allows one to lead and challenge the team.
Responsibilities
- Define product roadmap, and effectively define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.
- Manage project expectations while providing timely escalation for product deviations as needed to mitigate quality and/or supply chain risks.
- Work with company support teams including product support, sourcing, manufacturing, engineering, customer service, and sales to support product categories and new product launches.
- Effectively and proactively manage the product category portfolio with margin, mix, volume, product positioning, determine discontinuations where needed, to drive the overall productivity and profitability of the product category.
- Present and provide product training for assigned product categories and other adjacent categories for all support teams, channel partners, and customers.
- Drive KPI compliance with the team, including but not limited to phase gate compliance and performance tracking of productivity, margins, quality, ship promise compliance, inventory, and sales growth.
Other
- 4+ years product management in electrical manufacturing, durable goods, preferably within the lighting industry.
- Strong communicator and team player.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- This is a hybrid role with a strong preference for candidates based in the Atlanta region.
- 1-20% travel
