Product Manager, New Product Development Hard Goods

The role

This person will lead planning, development, and lifecycle management for the Café product category. They will turn consumer insights and market trends into product roadmaps and guide cross-functional teams from concept to launch.

What you will do

• Support product line planning with trend insight, competitive analysis, marketplace opportunity, and pro-forma costing.
• Support the creation of product briefs, product creation milestone reviews, packaging briefs, and go-to-market product plans.
• Lead development through concept, design, tooling, and go-to-market globally.
• Own product line administration including new product and collateral development support and new item creation in systems.
• Coordinate physical and digital assets including prototypes, samples, renders, and collateral.
• Manage the product pipeline with weekly meetings, project tracking, and timeline management.
• Work with Creative, Commercial/Sales, Marketing and Operations on go-to-market activities.
• Communicate needs, deliverables, and progress across functions.
• Support product lifecycle management through seasonal reviews of costing, pricing, sourcing, color forecasting, and assortment planning.

Required qualifications

• Understanding of principles of product creation: design, engineering, product development, manufacturing, and project management.
• Creative, analytical, with strong critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated interest in consumer products, consumer insights, and market landscape.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with high attention to detail.
• Ability to take initiative and prioritize tasks.
• Good time-management, organizational, problem-prevention and problem-solving skills.
• Proactive and effective communicator able to work with global teams.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management for consumer goods.
• Prior experience working directly with product management, sales, and design/creative departments.
• Proficient using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet (or a similar project management tool).
• Expert in building compelling, well crafted PowerPoint presentations

Nice to have

• Previous Product Marketing experience

Benefits

• Annual bonus based on company and individual results
• Personalized time off
• 14 Paid holidays
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Stanley 1913 is a brand that creates sustainable products including the Quencher series. It is owned by Morgan Street Holdings, a privately held enterprise with a diverse portfolio of operating companies.