Senior Product Line Manager

This role is designated as a hybrid role which includes working at least 3 days per week in office (Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays) to foster better collaboration connection and innovation.  This role is responsible for a managing the portfolio of performance and compliance related products.   

As a Senior Product Manager Performance and Compliance you will be empowered and expected to grow margin and profitability of your product lines within the Outdoors business focused on the B2B Primary Purchasers and influencers including Architect/Designer General Contractors and Builders enabling the BU to meet its overall financial objective. You will provide thought leadership and direction to ensure we have the right product certifications with the necessary performance ratings in the right channels with the right pricing architecture. You will have a deep understanding of regional and national codes and compliance and necessary performance required to increase market share and profitability throughout the product lifecycle. The ability to create and execute successful strategies build narratives around those strategies and influence multiple stakeholders internally and externally are necessary for success.

YOUR ROLE:

The bullet points below reflect roughly 80% of your job. We are a fastpaced company you may be pulled in a variety of different directions with tasks added or changed.

• Champion the Voice of the Customer by developing a thorough understanding of our B2B Primary Purchasers and the performance and certification needs.  Conduct competitive analysis and gain insight to certification gaps or advantages.
• In collaboration with the FBIN COEs and functions Create Product Performance and Certification Strategies that align to and enable the BUs strategic plan.  Articulate the strategy on what we should sell and innovate more or less of and how we will position our performance products to different B2B channels on a regional and national level.
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to gather requirements prioritize certifications and performance needs and translate them into technical specifications and properly scoped test plans.
• Analyze product performance data user behavior regional and national codes and compliance needs and competitive portfolios to inform product decisions and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and execute annual product plans in partnership with Outdoors Product Managers focused on certification and performance needs to meet growth market share and profitability goals. Manage tradeoffs and balance conflicting demands to execute required initiatives. 
• Plan and manage new product development projects through the entirety of a stagegate process.
• Educate the Organization on the various code requirements and performance certifications and our product solutions to enable market growth.                       
• Partner with Revenue Growth Management sales analytics and finance teams to understand channel dynamics & competitive positioning.  Develop business cases to initiative new product develop projects or new certification testing that enables profitable growth.
• Influence and educate the business on how we go to market.  Provide thought leadership and direction within and outside the organization for business technical or competitive issues

• Effectively communicate and explain the rationale of product line strategies positioning channel needs financial impact priorities and customer requirements. 
• Provide sales and product training support to drive revenue and profitability goals of our performance product lines.  Attend industryrelated trade shows sales meetings and maintain trade association contacts as needed.  Maintain a deep understanding of pertinent industry standards regional and national codes and certifications required to best position our performance product lines.
• Collaborate with Brand Channel Marketing Digital and Commercialization teams to support the development and maintenance of technical product documentation and provide internal and customer training on product usage. Develop selfservice and simplified solutions enabling access to our portfolio of certifications and product ratings.
• Support Brand Marketing / Marketing Services with review of technical content and messages of all collateral materials and communications for performance product lines.   Ensure the accuracy of product offering descriptions pricing etc in all company communications.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in Marketing Business Engineering or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of product management or engineering experience in durable goods manufacturing
• Strong analytical skills including ability to arrive at insights from analytical data is essential for market and competitive evaluation pricing and line management
• Possess a strong technical background to understand the feasibility and technical needs of product development.
• Demonstrated ability to be a team player with skills to lead/participate in crossfunctional teams
• Demonstrated effective verbal written and presentation skills
• Advanced computer skills (Excel PowerPoint Word SAP)
• Ability to travel approximately 25% mainly to customer locations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MBA in Marketing Engineering Business or related field
• Experience with Residential Building Codes and Certifications
• Fenestration (Window and Door) Industry Experience
• Prior consumer/durable goods experience

Additional Information :

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $130000 $150000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range or be above or below the range based on factors including but not limited to education training experience professional achievement business need and location. In addition to base salary employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a rolebased sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates unique needs. This includes robust health plans a marketleading 401(k) program with a company contribution product discounts flexible time off benefits (including halfday summer Fridays per policy) inclusive fertility / adoption benefits and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand innovation and channel leader focused on exciting supercharged categories in the home products security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen House of Rohl Aqualisa SpringWell ThermaTru Larson Fiberon Master Lock SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability marital status protected veteran status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations:

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