Senior Product Manager
Senior Product Manager
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$ 100000 - 122745
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Job Description
Why join us
Geiger furnishes the modern office with beautiful solutions for private offices conference rooms collaborative spaces and more. Geiger designs play an important role in creating environments where people want to bespaces that stimulate creative and analytical thinking strengthen organizational culture and communicate trust to clients and visitors.
Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. Its the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values so we can build a more sustainable equitable and beautiful future for everyone.
Serves as product champion for the Geiger DatesWeiser product lines by developing implementing and managing product management and improvement activities to provide optimum sales and profits. Accountable for managing the Geiger DatesWeiser product lines to support all of the corporate strategies including the development of cross-platform work process elements components and collections. Serves as a critical leader within product marketing.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Develops drives and implements individual multiple or more critical Geiger DatesWeiser product plans and strategy.
Directs ongoing analyses and leads the pricing and discounting strategy for Geiger DatesWeiser products to provide greatest financial performance.
Provides category feedback to innovation and kitchen development teams and support and integrate the launch plans. Support and integrate launch plans as appropriate.
Provides direction make recommendations and make decisions in support of data management system functionality and usage.
Supports strategic sales opportunities and provide product updates to sales.
Defines analytical tools necessary to provide insight necessary for decision making for a group of products.
Defines product sales support and training requirements to support several products within a category.
Leads presentations both internally and externally for critical product training and other various presentation opportunities.
Owns the effort to resolve quality issues evaluate and drive changes that highly affect P&L.
Responsible for the financial health of the Geiger DatesWeiser product line including accountability for P&L.
Manages the product life cycle of Geiger DatesWeiser product lines from introduction through growth and maturity to decline and discontinuation. Provides input on product simplification/discontinuation for product lines or groups of products.
Acts as a mentor to help develop other Product colleagues. Provide direction and priority setting in absence of Work Team Leader and act as WTL for the internship program.
Identify and build business case for product extensions and/or new platforms. Ability to serve as Core Team member representing the Geiger DatesWeiser product category.
Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
Additional Essential Functions
Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience
Bachelors Degree required. Bachelors degree in Marketing Business Administration or Interior Design preferred.
Masters Degree preferred.
Excellent understanding of product management best practices and processes typically gained through 6-8 years of experience in product management/product marketing or related experience.
3 years of project management leadership or management experience.
Contract furniture of capital goods and/or consumer merchant experience preferred.
Skills and Abilities
Advanced knowledge of the customer and sales process with demonstrated customer and field interaction.
Full understanding of operations production supply management full value stream.
Applies understanding of Herman Millers channels including dealer and/or retail and understanding their main functions (sales design and operations) to develop product strategies for one or more products.
Demonstrated high level of written verbal and interpersonal skills to communicate information ideas procedures and processes in a logical sequence; at a level appropriate to the audience and resulting in effective working relationships.
Demonstrated entrepreneurial risk-taking and creative design orientation.
Ability to handle multiple concurrent responsibilities and work in a constantly changing environment. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple major projects and priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines.
Outstanding leadership skills with proven creative problem-solving skills and the ability to lead through influence and relationship building within all areas of the company.
Proven mentoring people development and leadership skills including experience leading cross functional development teams.
Prior product platform team and market research experience.
Demonstrated analytical and project management skills. Ability to develop project plans and manage activities for a large cross functional project. Ability to get alignment secure resources and manage activities of project.
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with business financial manufacturing and purchasing acumen and integrate this knowledge into decision making to optimize the return for one or more products.
Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation and communication software and tools currently being used in the Herman Miller office environment.
Willingness to travel 20% of the time.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.
Who We Hire
Simply put we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Geiger is comprised of people of all abilities gender identities and expressions ages ethnicities sexual orientations veterans from every branch of military service and more. Here you can bring your whole self to work. Were committed to equal opportunity employment including veterans and people with disabilities.
MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
