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Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. · 1 day ago

Senior Product Manager, Future Coffee Systems Pod Product Management

Burlington, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$131K/yr - $175K/yr

5+ years exp

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. is a leading beverage company in North America, and they are seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to join the Future Coffee Systems team. This role will lead innovative product development and manage projects from inception to completion, ensuring alignment across teams and delivering against strategic goals.

CoffeeFood and BeverageManufacturing

Hiring Manager

Eddie Miranda

Responsibilities

Galvanize and lead a cross-functional team through a range of new consumable product development, inclusive of beverage, format, packaging, and accessories innovation and productivity opportunities

Manage new AltaRounds consumable, packaging, and accessories projects from ‘cradle to grave’, including:

Creating and driving consumer learning plans in partnership with consumer insights and consumer design research

Setting product requirements and targets based on consumer needs and economic factors

Composing cogent business cases for new product introductions

Making decisions on budgetary tradeoffs to ensure timely delivery of project

Coordinating and overseeing progress across team ‘workstreams’ (e.g., Supply Chain, engineering, procurement)

Escalating ‘divergences from plan’ to appropriate governing bodies (e.g., Steering Committees, ELT)

Driving alignment cross-functional and up through leadership on recommendations

Manage communications around new consumable program development with senior leadership

Ensure projects deliver against goals and KPIs

Participate in key stakeholder presentations and integration events

Perform and leverage analysis of sales information, projections, and other meaningful data to understand and lead pipeline of company consumable products

Provide short-term and long-term strategic direction on consumable/beverage pipeline

Have a strong leadership understanding of the consumable’s role in the portfolio and impact to the profit and loss of the company

Analyze market data, consumer insights, and performance in order to make strategic recommendations about product line plans

Execute product initiatives that support the broader short term and long-term objectives of the company

Develop product requirements and product briefs to drive consumable and accessories development activities

Lead cross-functional team through stage gate process to develop new consumables and accessories

Direct Consumer Insights team in development of research that informs consumable and accessories strategy

Manage continuous improvement of product line to meet emerging consumer needs and optimize business performance

Track projects against set objectives, analyze and evaluate success of the projects, and pursue path to optimization

Qualification

Product managementConsumer researchNew product developmentMarketing experiencePackaging designProject managementCommunication skillsOrganizational skillsTeam collaborationCreative mindset

Required

5-10 years of progressive brand/product management or consumer research and design experience in the consumer-packaged goods industries

Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Packaging, Design, Business, Engineering and/or related field required; MBA preferred

Combination of marketing, design, technical, or engineering background

Experience in product/innovation management, ideally with ‘cradle to grave' approach

Creative mindset and passion for product marketing and consumer packaged goods

Excellent communication skills, written and oral, with all levels of the organization and externally with partners

Extraordinary organizational skills and attention to detail; able to shift priorities quickly and remain calm and focused under pressure; able to manage multiple projects/requests and meet deadlines

Good judgment; understand when to involve others in the decision-making process

Ability to work well both independently and with a team

Experience with new product development, and product line management

Demonstrated success introducing products to consumer/commercial market

Ability to interface with technical resources in developing and designing brewing systems and commercial team on go-to-market activities

Ability to manage highly complex projects with strong attention to detail

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with strong sense of urgency

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