Product Manager, Kitchen Durables - Addison, United States - Pampered Chef

Description

**Product Manager, Kitchen Durables**

at Pampered Chef Home Office - Addison, IL **Purpose of the Role:**

The purpose of this mission critical role is to establish and execute a long-term product lifecycle management strategy in our Kitchen Durables category to deliver on Pampered Chefs overarching brand proposition. This Product Manager will work cross functionally with key stakeholders Product Development, Marketing and the Field team to accomplish their category objectives. The goal is to drive profitable growth globally through creative and innovative approaches to differentiating and curating our solutions (products, recipes, food offerings and experiences) that align to our value proposition and evolving consumer trends around health, convenience and entertaining.

**Key Responsibilities:**

Owns the integrated product/solutions strategy for specific categories within our Durables product portfolio including the roadmap and execution, concept portfolio and associated financial performance. Ensures that our target customer, field, brand, value proposition and relevant trends are incorporated into all aspects of the solutions development process.

Develops Key inputs into the strategic roadmap that focuses the development organization, ensuring the appropriate balance of current category evolution, innovation and everyday solutions to provide a holistic launch plan, portfolio strategy and lifecycle management

Owns the P&L for specific components of the solutions portfolio and responsible for meeting KPI targets including gross profit, new product sales, brand perception, and product reviews

Accountable for the new product development / market launch process and post-launch performance within specific categories. Includes ensuring alignment of cross-functional stakeholders and driving the stage gate reviews for the respective categories.

Responsible for maximizing revenue and profitability of specific categories, through effective product lifecycle management strategies across key stages of introduction, growth, maturity and decline

Provides guidance to the product development team to comprehensively understand the categories PC competes in, inclusive of competitive frameworks, macro to micro trends, channel evolution and technology overlays as a key input to the PC development strategy

Ensures the solutions team has the innovation pipeline to support the strategic roadmap and business goals

**Competencies for Success:**

Communicates Effectively

Cultivates Innovation

Financial Acumen

Strategic Mindset

**Measures of Success:**

Gross Profit per Consultant

Operating Income Performance

Capital Deployment Effectiveness

New Product Performance (vs. Target)

New Product Vitality

Brand Perception

Product Reviews

**Education & Experience:**

Bachelors degree in Marketing, Engineering or related discipline or MBA in related field desired.

5-7+ years total career experience in product management, ideally including a prior rotation through a commercial or technical/product dev role

Experience in the consumer goods industry preferred

Experience within high velocity, global, consumer product categories

**About Pampered Chef:**Established in 1980 by Doris Christopher, Pampered Chef is a global marketing enterprise and a proud Berkshire Hathaway company since 2002. We develop a multi-purpose, high-quality and unique kitchen product line that includes time-saving kitchen tools, cookware, cutlery, stoneware, and pantry products serving millions of customers around the world. We support a large network of independent consultants with their direct sales efforts in addition to our corporate ecommerce business.

We celebrate the power that mealtimes have to become something more: a way to transform relationships, share stories, create traditions, and build happier and richer lives. But, with todays expectations, we know finding the mealtime win can be difficult. Were here to help bridge that gap between the ideal mealtime and the realities of today. We do this through our distinctive, high-quality kitchen tools, parties that show you how to make delicious, timesaving recipes, and the opportunity to join our supportive international community of more than 50,000 consultants.

Pampered Chef is committed to providing a workplace where coworkers can do their best work, whether at home or in our Addison office location. This role will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, both in our Addison office and virtually, with leaders, and cross-functional partners to measure, test, learn, and improve our customers mealtime journey.

Pampered Chef complies with the federal OSHA mandate pertaining to Covid-19 vaccinations, testing, and face coverings. As such, Pampered Chef requires you to provide your vaccination status as a condition of employment. If you have questions about this, please discuss with the Pampered Chef HR Recruiter.

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