Senior Product Manager

Marvin

At Marvin, we make windows and doors inspired by how you live so you're inspired to live well. We are driven by the momentum of four generations of innovation and excellence to imagine and create better ways of living. Our business reaches across the nation and our products are represented around the world. With our commitment to our local communities and to providing innovative solutions using new technology, we are always looking for ways to move our people, as well as our business, forward.

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Position Details

Senior Product Manager
Job
Full-time
3/5/2021
Twin Cities Metro
Eagan, MN

Senior Product Manager:

The Senior Product Manager provides product management leadership to cross-functional development teams. They keep customers at the center of development projects by maintaining a strong understanding of needs and the market, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure that products are differentiated in ways that reinforce our brand-level value propositions. This position leverages strong product marketing fundamentals to assist decision making in project prioritization and innovation processes.

In this position, you will be responsible for:

Product Line Strategy (15%)

  • Partner with Product Leader and cross-functional teams to develop a strong product roadmap for area of responsibility
  • Actively input into product planning & prioritization process
  • Draft business cases to support growth opportunities & inform decision making
  • Develop & maintain market, customer & product expertise via assessment of market needs, synthesizing market research data, primary VOC, design research & competitive trends monitor and manage product option sales information
  • Deliver insight to the business on product line & option trends to help inform decision making

Product Management Leadership (70%)

  • Provide marketing leadership to cross-functional development teams, ensuring that the customer stay at the center of the project
  • Proactively work to build relationships cross-functionally, ensuring collaboration and a shared understanding of the customer and market
  • Represent Voice of the Customer through a Stage-Gate product development process
  • Ensure project teams quickly reach decisions that help balance customer and business objectives
  • Translate product launch core benefits to inform successful go-to-market strategies
  • Ownership of pricing strategy for each new product launch, with assistance of Pricing Department

Product Expertise & Support (15%)

  • Support departmental improvement initiatives 
  • Act as internal expert on assigned products and/or focus areas 
  • Assist marketing to create messaging that accurately communicates product differentiation 
  • Maintain thorough understanding of competitive product line strengths and weaknesses

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree, business, engineering, marketing 
  • MBA with a marketing emphasis is highly desired 
  • 5+ years of related and successful work experience in new product development and product portfolio management 
  • 'Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

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