Product Manager; Merchandising

Overview

Job Title: Product (Merchandising) Manager

Location: New Providence, NJ (hybrid with 1-2 days/week onsite)

Position Overview: As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for managing our crafts and activity kits products from costing to pre-production. Our ideal candidate has previous hard goods product management experience that includes managing multiple SKU’s at a time. To be successful in this role, you must thrive in an incredibly fast paced environment, have a good understanding of the product life cycle, and have the ability to work within tight deadlines while managing multiple products at once.

• Collaborate with product development and design teams to generate new product concepts through brainstorm meetings, trend-shopping and market research
• Facilitate the creation of sales presentations with mock-up samples, prototypes and presentation boards
• Conduct daily communication with overseas office on issues of new product development/sourcing/costing and keeping a status of all pending projects
• Facilitate item, costing, and margin information to sales team on assigned programs
• Create, and keep a status of, all art requests for new products, packaging revisions and production needs
• Review and comment on all production approval samples and provide customer-required samples to sales team
• Complete new item setup and other product & marketing related forms of production items for retail customers
• Work with members from cross-functional teams of Planning, Marketing Ops, Sales, Compliance, Data Management on all assigned programs
• Help drive expansion with sales presentations, samples review, reaction to buyer comments and product execution
• Provide guidelines, product direction, pricing, samples and other presentation tools for industry trade shows and events.

• 3-5 years of product management experience in a CPG/company (hardgoods preferred)
• Advanced skills in PowerPoint and Excel required
• Ability to work on tight deadlines and fast paced environment required
• Strong attention to details required
• Sourcing, Costing, Product Development and/or Supply Chain background a plus
• Experience communicating with overseas suppliers preferred
• Strong sense of fashion, color, and design
• Please note, this is a hybrid opportunity, working 1-2 days per week in our New Providence, NJ office and other days working remotely.