Sr Product Manager-Showering Products

Kohler Co., a world-class manufacturer is seeking to add to the team, a highly qualified Sr Product Manager to work within our Showering Products Category.Are you seeking a challenging environment in a fast growing market? Bring your passion for excellence to Kohler, and build your future with a progressive marketing organization. KOHLER has a mission to continually enhance the level of gracious living of the people it serves. For more than 130 years we've been providing Timeless Style, Lasting Quality and Limitless Potential to customers as well as our associates.BASIC FUNCTION
The Senior Product Manager-Showering Products has primary responsibility for a product line and is accountable for the marketing management and the financial performance of the respective product. This would involve developing and implementing short-term marketing plans and long-term marketing strategies, consistent with the strategic and financial objectives of Plumbing Americas and Kohler Co. Responsible for planning and managing the company's short-and long-range marketing programs. Also responsible for developing marketing plans and programs in support of group profit objectives to include sales forecasts, customer marketing programs, pricing, and product line development plans. The Senior Product Manager-Showering Products operates as the groups recognized central authority on all marketing and business matters related to this product. Has multiple P&L responsibility.Other competencies associated with primary function and scope are as follows:
Seen as leader within the department.
Serve as the marketing advisor to the business leader.
Develop and mentor direct reports toward driving end results.
Mentor lower level managers.SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide senior management with information and recommendations on the most profitable strategies for the business via annual marketing plan presentations and longer-term business plans.Manage product prices, terms of sale and discounts recognizing our objectives and our competition.Monitor current, and anticipate future, consumer and customer needs and preferences on a worldwide basis by working closely with Field Sales and Market Research.Manage all products in assigned line throughout all stages of their life cycle, developing strategies for development, introduction, continuing contribution, and discontinuance, while maximizing their profitable existence and synergism with all products of the business.Provide Market Research with market demand projections to guide the preparation of forecasts.Work with Operations to ensure needed product supply at the lowest possible product cost while maintaining quality standards.Work in close contact with Advertising to develop promotional plans, advertising campaigns, catalogs, brochures, displays, exhibits, and other support materials.Create, execute, and maintain a product strategy to guide new product development efforts for each product line. Full responsibility for coordinating the new product development process across all functional areas.Closely monitor and steer all Engineering and Manufacturing activities concerned with new product or new technology development and product maintenance activities related to products.Prioritize the efforts of Group Materials through necessary forecasts and product information as they relate to customer service. Work with Materials to monitor activities of critical vendors.Develop "Authorized Corporate Transaction" reports for new product introduction.Develop a personal expertise on assigned product markets including a complete intelligence file on competitors' products, pricing, field activity, customer service channels of market distribution and end user preferences. Become familiar with product materials, manufacturing, packaging, transportation and promotions.Review and approve engineering change requests to products.Coordinate the development of effective packaging, advertising, sales and incentive programs, sales displays, trade show displays, and publicity programs.Provide Product Engineering with market preference and trends on products considered for development or redesign.Relate and recommend changes in established market distribution and strategy as necessitated by market and consumer preferences.Coordinate the interpretation of plumbing codes and distribution of this information to the field sale
REQUIREMENTS
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