PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Job in New York, New York US
Position ID: GG-120320-VOM
Job Category: Marketing/Product
Type: Full Time, Employee
Salary: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00 /year
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree
Our client has quickly developed a global presence in the Consumer Home Goods Housewares industry. Due to rapid growth and expansion, our client seeks an experienced PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, whose Key Responsibilities include:
Concept/design support
- Update key product launches in annual calendar, plan strategy using financial analysis of existing business and trends in market place
- Develop research key commercial issues, pricing and strategy including in-depth testing of competitive products
- Communicate concept with designers and support design process
- Create project timelines, align with key launch dates and sales retail sell-in periods
- Internally communicate project its progress with relevant internal teams, including buildup to launch
Production /engineering
- Coordinate communication between design and engineering partners
- Order test prototypes
- Research material innovations, sourcing opportunities with new vendors
- Analysis and help select appropriate vendor
- Coordinate quotations, meet key price points
- Daily correspondence on key project issues with vendor
- Supervise first production runs
- Project manage testing
- Support logistics, shipping and meet product in-store dates
- Write product specifications
- Product approvals.
- Set product bench mark samples for QC.
- Write QC protocol
- Write sell sheets
- Communicate key features/benefits for marketing to media partners
- Communicate product specifications and features and benefits to customer service
Packaging
- Write packaging copy
- Develop structural packaging
- Create UPC codes
- Develop inners,outers,CDUs and master cartons evaluating QC
- Brief creative and communicate timelines
- Track printing production
Ongoing product development
- Present weekly product development status
- Develop seasonal or retail promotional programs
- Perform SKU rationalizations on all products
- Collaborate internally to set planograms and presentations for key customer presentations
- Present and rationalize new product sales report
- responsibility for profitability of lifecycle of product
Experience Required
- 4 year college degree; master’s degree a plus
- 5-8 years minimum of product development experience in consumer products category
- Strongly prefer design led business experience and mass merchandising experience
- Product development experience with creative, revolutionary type products such as: Consumer Goods, Design led Housewares: Toys, Personal Care, Small Electrics sold to upscale and mass retailers
Our client offers to this highly qualified individual the following:
- Excellent pay and benefits, including a bonus program and full benefits package.
- An opportunity to join a rapidly growing company with a highly talented, cross-functional team.
- An excellent opportunity to learn and grow within a successful, growing company.
- A chance to work on a wide variety of interesting projects.
- Opportunities for promotion for highly motivated and capable people.
March 24, 2011
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