Product Manager (Food Industry)
90-110K +Bonus
Duluth, GA
Our Client is hiring a highly analytical, critical thinker, and experienced Product Manager, passionate about leading a food category and creating new products to support company sales and customers in the food service industry. This position reports to the Senior Director of Marketing and will collaborate with business units across the organization including R&D, Sales, Finance, Operations and Procurement Teams, in addition to customers, third party agencies and consultants.
The Product Manager will make recommendations and lead execution efforts for marketing, sales collateral and training, trend & insight identification, innovation, and overall product portfolio optimizations. This individual is expected to be an overall expert in for all categories with an ownership mentality and will possess a passion for growing the business.The ideal candidate will exhibit strong analytical and interpersonal skills. We are searching for a self-motivated individual who can work well amongst teams and individually.
DUTIES
- Manage overall health, profitability, pricing, and innovation
- Bring creative problem solving, approaches and thoughtfulness into overall job approach
- Monitors and anticipates short, medium, and long-term market trends, climates, and needs that disrupt the foodservice space
- Identify and prioritize growth initiatives based on consumer, category, and white space analysis
- Organize, analyze and provide sales and market data to track progress against goals
- Lead product packaging design execution and packaging, material, content reviews as needed for from a Marketing standpoint
- Lead the development of Sales and Marketing strategy and materials to support growth (not limited to POS, videos, recipes, promotions)
- Create and deliver training for Sales, Brokers, and Customers
- Support of key industry food shows and tradeshows/conferences
- Work independently, as well as lead cross-functional teams, to achieve complete assessments, validate needs and prove out new products and services
- Communicate insights/business results to key stakeholders in order to support informed business decisions by providing in-depth analysis and recommendations
- Conducts ongoing research and sessions focused on customer discovery to explore opportunities, category insights, and share information using clear and concise methods with an eye toward actionable recommendations
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Food science or another related field
- Skilled in developing roadmaps, program plans, business cases, and realization strategies to support recommendations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify complex ideas into component parts and communicate that vision clearly to a broad audience
- Must have the ability to work collaboratively across teams and matrixed organizations to drive results
- Expertise in product development life cycle with relevant experience in all phases
- Excellent communication, presentation, and demonstration skills, written and verbal
- Delivers consistently on time and in scope
- Excellent computer skills with a CMS, MS Office Suite
