SUMMARY OF POSITION:

Premier has an opportunity for a Product Manager to join our Marketing team. The role of the Product Manager is to identify and develop quality designed, high-performance products for market launch. It requires consumer/customer insight and technical product development skills to understand how to create exceptional products best serve the end user’s needs and win in market. The Product Manager manages a portfolio of store brand products for their evolutionary life cycle: facilitating sell-in, rolling out new products across various customers, responding to customer requests, managing product testing and reporting, among other duties. We are looking for a dynamic individual with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for winning who desires to make a direct impact on an organization without multiple layers of bureaucracy. This hybrid position is based in White Plains, N.Y. (remote Mondays & Fridays) and reports directly to our Director of Marketing, Private Label & Category Management.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, leadership and communication skills
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Strong sense of personal accountability and ownership
• Keen attention to detail, organized, with the ability to prioritize and execute against deadlines
• Solid understanding of the needs of the consumer and the ability to balance the needs of the customer (ex. Walmart, Target, Drug, Food channels)
• Firm grasp of consumer marketing principals
• Customer orientation
• Ability to identify new product or product improvement opportunities and determine how to produce them
• Ability to analyze IRI and shipment data to report on private label, competitive brands, and category trends
• Ability to see areas of opportunity based on consumer trends and need gaps
• Flexible and responsive to changing customer needs.
• Committed to promoting a healthy and creative work environment

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree, Marketing preferred
• 2+ years in product management with clear experience in project management
• Experience in Health Care and or Beauty Categories preferred
• Experience working with the Amazon sales platform (Seller Central) desired
  Job Type: Full-time
  Pay: $95,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in White Plains, NY 1060

Product Management:

• Manage a portfolio of private label (store brand) products through their evolutionary life cycle
• Roll out new products across various customers: Develop and negotiate copy, work with the Creative Team to approve copy and graphics, and ensure the Master Product * Creative is optimized and leveraged across all customers
• Respond to customer requests, including managing product refreshes and ongoing product testing
• Identify and lead development of product improvements, cost savings, and sustainability initiatives (ex. reformulation or new packaging; new features, claims, or graphics) from concept to execution to restage and phase-in
• Write creative briefs and provide feedback to outside vendors and Engineering on product and process improvements
• Analyze performance of new products and product improvements, making recommendations for the future
• Identify areas of growth, recommending new categories, new products, and/or product improvements
• Identify SKUs for potential discontinuation based on product performance, profitability, complexity, etc.
• Work cross-functionally with Creative, Sales, Regulatory, Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing
• Present status updates to senior management on a quarterly basis, with smaller monthly updates