Overview:
The Product Manager is responsible for conducting product and competitor research, analysis delivering market justification for developing new products or product enhancements and extensions to the existing products and product lines.
This position influences products, from cradle to grave including but not limited to product analysis, concept development, justification, prototyping, costing, pricing, developing sales tools and product releases with consistent evaluation throughout the product’s life cycle.
The Product Manager works closely with Sales, Operations, Marketing, and the manufacturing departments to identify the product value proposition for the A&D community, contractors, and specifiers.
The product manager will work closely with the Sales, Purchasing, and Engineering department in developing, implementing and maintaining seamless operations cycles for Fry Reglet’s Distributed Products division.
Essential Job Functions:
- Follow and advance with the established product roadmap for evaluation of existing product lines and champion the launch of new products.
- Ability to complete product, material, and competitor analysis and apply findings to further the covered product offerings.
- New and existing vendor relations, management and communications.
- Strong involvement with materials and vendors for product implementation and enhancement.
- Product ideation with analysis of manufacturing, application, and functionality.
- Identify enhancements to the current distributed products lifecycle and implement simplified and clear product improvement plan.
- Input for production, pricing and plans for product roll out.
- Generation and maintenance of product documentation, resources, testing data, and technical specifications.
- Strong involvement in customer communication, product presentation, technical support, sales / marketing strategies and collateral development with integration of innovative platforms.
- Deliver the education of products and processes to our internal and external teams.
Job Functions and Responsibilities:
- Determine market / customer needs and desires through research and interactions with sales team, architects, designer, and contractors’ community.
- Develop and manage new products or product enhancements with coordination/support from Management, Sales, Operations, and Marketing teams.
- Create and maintain relationships with current vendors while exploring all new opportunities.
- Determine product pricing by utilizing market research, sales data, reviewing production cycle and sales costs, as well as anticipated sales volume.
- Provide management with short and long-term product sales forecasts and profitability by product or product line.
- Continually measure and add updates to existing product literature, website, product messaging, marketing strategies and sales collateral in collaboration with marketing team.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge through research, education and interactions with sales, design and contracting community.
- Attendance and presentations at educational workshops and tradeshows.
Experience and Skills:
- Strong passion for order and transparency in the handling of product from cradle to grave.
- Proficient use of Microsoft Atlas, NAV 365, Business Central, MS Office preferred.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively work autonomously while relying on team collaboration throughout organization.
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Mechanically inclined and acute attention to the detail.
- Professional level verbal and written communication skills, including - editing, proofreading and presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability that considers current methods and resources while also evaluating unprecedented approaches.
