MillerKnoll · 2 weeks ago
Furniture Product Manager - Knoll
Stamford, CT
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$106K/yr - $138K/yr
4+ years expMillerKnoll is dedicated to designing for the good of humankind and is seeking a Furniture Product Manager to champion specific product lines. The role involves developing and managing product strategies, pricing, and lifecycle management to optimize sales and profits while leading product business teams.
Design
Responsibilities
Defines market opportunities, determined by an analytical assessment
Translates the market need into a product specific criterion and supports the product development and commercialization process with various product management tactics
Develops, drives, and implements individual product plans and strategy
Directs ongoing analysis and leads the pricing and discounting strategy to provide greatest financial performance
Provides direction, makes recommendations, and makes decisions in support of data management system functionality and usage
Creates necessary product sales support and training information including product feature summaries, competitive evaluations and pricing comparisons
Defines analytical tools and observes research, forming insight and observations necessary to provide insight necessary for decision making
Fields general questions including competitive inquires and makes decisions or recommendations to resolve
Owns the effort to resolve quality issues, evaluate and drive changes that affect P&L
Manages the product life cycle of the product lines from identification, introduction, through growth and maturity, to decline and discontinuation and provides input on product simplification/discontinuation for product lines
Acts as a mentor to help develop other Product colleagues
Defines and observes research, forming insights and observations. Conducts some research with customers, users and other stakeholders
Participate in and support new product exploration data inputs for an assigned product. Ability to serve as Core Team member representing the product category
Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree required
Proven understanding of product management best practices and processes, typically gained through 4-7+ years of experience in product management/product marketing or related experience
Proven understanding of the customer and sales process with demonstrated customer and field interaction
Understands channels and markets globally. Applies understanding of the market and channel in developing effective product strategy for one or more products
Full understanding of operations, production, supply management, full value stream
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to investigate and analyze information to make recommendations
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
Demonstrated mentoring, people development, and leadership skills, including experience leading cross functional development teams
Demonstrated analytical and project management skills. Ability to develop project plans and manage activities for a medium or large cross functional project
Strong business, financial, manufacturing, and purchasing acumen and integrate this knowledge into decision making. Understands how Product Management impacts the financial positioning of the product line and makes decisions around improving the overall P&L of the product line
Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation and communication software and tools currently being used in the Herman Miller office environment
Willingness to travel to customer sites
Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or Interior Design preferred
Contract furniture of capital goods marketing experience and / or premium consumer merchant experience preferred
Prior product platform team and market research experience preferred
Benefits
Medical
Prescription Drug
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Dependent Day Care Savings Account
Life Insurance
Disability and Other Insurance Plans
Paid Time Off (including Vacation and Parental Leave)
Holidays
401(k)
Short/Long Term Disability
Company
MillerKnoll
MillerKnoll is a collective of dynamic brands that comes together to design the world we live in.
10001+ employees
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