Assistant Product Manager

About us:

Napa Home & Garden is a wholesale home décor brand headquartered in Norcross GA and one in a family of highly regarded brands under C&F Enterprises. We design and source seasonal collections furniture décor botanicals and lifestyle accessories for style-conscious independent retailers designers and specialty stores across North America.

Job Purpose:

Napa Home & Garden is looking for an Assistant Product Manager who wants more than a foot in the door; someone who wants a real seat at the table while learning the full arc of merchandising from trend to assortment to P&L. This is the first step on Napas merchandising career path built for someone whos analytical design-curious and ready to grow into a future Product Manager.

What Youll Own

• Assortment & product execution. Maintain assortment line lists product setup and SKU data across 23 seasons at once; support development from concept through launch tracking milestones samples and vendor communication.
• Brand & Market audits. Support competitive audits contribute to collection naming and feature storytelling for new product launches.
• Analytics that drive decisions. Build weekly and monthly reporting on sales margin and inventory health and flag trends before they become problems using Excel Power BI and ERP tools.
• Vendor & cross-functional coordination. Communicate daily with domestic and international vendors on POs samples and timelines; partner with Design Supply Sales and Marketing to keep launches on track.
• Growing into the role. Participate in line reviews trade shows (Atlanta Market High Point) and category business reviews. Napa wants Assistant Product Managers who ask good questions and push category performance forward.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years in Buying Merchandising Retail or related analytical or commercial role
• Bachelors degree in Business Merchandising Marketing or a related field
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with data
• Sharp organizational skills. Ability to coordinate multiple seasons and deadlines.
• Curiosity about home décor design trends and consumer behavior
• Clear confident written and verbal communication
• Bachelors degree in Business Marketing Merchandising or related field or equivalent career/internship experience.

Bonus points: ERP/PLM exposure Power BI experience or prior internship/early-career work supporting product or buyers/merchants.

Career Path: Assistant Product Manager Product Manager Senior Product Manager Director of Product & Merchandising VP Product Merchandising & Management. This role is designed to build the foundation for that path.

Physical requirements

• Sitting Standing Walking
• Prolonged use of computer involved; use of hands and finger coordination; specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision. Color vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus as needed.
• Twice a year during Market periods standing and walking for 8-12 hours each day

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health savings account
• 401(k) and 401(k) matching
• Company paid life insurance and long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability
• Paid time off

This is a hybrid role based at our Norcross GA headquarters. Candidates should expect to be in the office up to 3 days a week. Extended hours and select weekends during peak season showroom prep and market (twice annually).

The successful candidate must be able to pass a pre-employment background check and drug screening.

All applicants are required to successfully complete a background check and drug screening as part of the pre-employment process. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and must not require sponsorship now or in the future.

Napa an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to recruiting hiring and promoting qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation and gender identity) national origin age disability marital status veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process please contact.

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