Product Manager - Midwest & Eastern USA (Remote) - Signode Industrial Group

Description/Job Summary

About Signode:

With over $2B in revenue, 80+ manufacturing facilities across 6 continents and over 9,000 employees worldwide, Signode is a leading manufacturer of a broad spectrum of transit packaging consumables, tools, software, and equipment that optimize end-of-line packaging operations and protect products in transit. Signode brings this extensive product portfolio together under hundreds of trusted brands to offer complete transit packaging solutions to its customers.

We produce strap, stretch and protective packaging. We also manufacture packaging tools and equipment used to apply the bulk packaging materials. These commercial packaging products are used to pack, bundle, unitize, protect, and secure goods during warehousing and transit. Our company is a pioneer in the industrial packaging sector with a long history of customer-focused innovations in materials, processes and automation technology that have revolutionized the sector.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, we are proud to be the Transit Packaging Division of Crown Holdings, Inc. We are excited to go to market as Signode and to share the portfolio of products, services and capabilities that make us the world's premier end-of-line packaging company.

Benefits:

Signode offers a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees, which includes health, dental, vision, 401k, paid time off, life insurance, wellness perks, and more. Benefits begin the month following the hire date.

Salary:

$110,000 - $145,000

Summary

The Product Manager provides strategic marketing leadership for assigned products based on customer insights, market analysis, and regular competitive review.  The product manager should be intimate with the P&L of the product lines and identify areas for revenue growth and profit improvement in line with organization long term strategies.

Essential Functions

• Maintain an up-to-date business plan for the product line including financial expectations, competitive position, key opportunities, customer focus and project priorities.  Develop annual product line strategy to support LRP and budgeting. 
• Provide regular reports on global product line performance. Include Product line financial contribution, major market activity and key project and innovation updates.
• Oversee product pricing strategy, monitor market pricing and communicate findings for products/ applications within the defined area of responsibility.
• Develop value pricing models to project and capture the performance valuation of our products and collaborate on system pricing when appropriate.
• Utilize market research to understand competitive value proposition and cost positions.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities for new products and business models. 
• Facilitate New Product Development idea generation through market research, field sales and customer outreach. Define priorities and coordinate activities through commercialization.
• Work with engineering and legal to ensure IP is protected where relevant.
• Work with operations to contribute to Value engineering (VA/VE) projects.
• Work with commercial teams to develop growth and market penetration plans based on clear understanding of customer expectations, competitive positioning and strategic business drivers.  Utilize professional processes and systems for program development and tracking.
• Support ongoing product line positioning including marketing communication planning, packaging, sales training, customer value presentations, and other materials as needed.
• Foster an environment of teamwork; emphasizes the importance of internal collaboration to meet and exceed customers' expectations.

Position Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree required (engineering, marketing, or business a plus); master's degree in marketing or business strongly preferred.

Experience: 5-10 years of product management experience, preferably with an industrial business with similar customer base.  Background in developing product line strategies and leading product portfolio management.  High proficiency in MS Office suite.

Functional Success Drivers: These competencies are what we require for an individual to be successful in this role.

• Conceptual Ability
• Strategic Skills
• Problem Solving
• Priority Setting
• Understanding Others
• Decision Making / Judgment

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities.

The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.

Signode Industrial Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.