Director of Flooring Product Management

Our client, an established flooring manufacturer, is looking to add a Director of Flooring Product Management to its team.

The Director will:

• Adapt incoming information into
• Continuously research and evaluate customer needs and market conditions
• Coordinate and manager marketing specialist support team
• Coordinate and negotiate vendor and supplier activity
• Coordinate product lines
• Develop distribution
• Identify and meet customer needs with company solutions
• Incorporate new and competitive marketing technologies
• Manage marketing media channels
• Manage rebates
• Maximize profits, achieve margins and fee targets
• Originate and implement messaging, marketing roadmaps and launches for product lines.
• Plan and launch product releases
• Plan company events
• Report and coordinate marketing with President, Executive Vice President, Director of Product, Director of Pricing, Product Managers and Director of Marketing as needed
• Represent industry standards
• Retain competitive company lead
• Strengthen internal and external company relationships
• Unify and streamline client feedback channels
• Work with and train Product Managers

Desired Skills and Experience

• 5+ years in a Product Management role, preferably with industry software experience
• Analytics / statistics
• Business development
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Industry knowledge
• Leadership
• Minimum of 10+ years experience in the Flooring Industry
• Product launches
• Project & initiative leadership
• Team management

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2+ years experience in a field facing role
• 5+ years of flooring product marketing experience
• Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, and third parties
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to travel 25%

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• MBA preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in business or marketing or commensurate flooring industry experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or complex governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees, consultants and vendors.

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