Consumables: Line manager

MTN OPS was founded with the mission to IMPROVE THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS and FAMILIES, in everything we do. Our core focus is on helping people improve their ability to perform in whatever drives them and we accomplish this primarily by offering industry leading products that help them with more energy and better nutrition.

The product manager for consumables is the strategic architect for the product lines managed. This role owns the end-to-end life cycle for Product Assortment, Innovation, Quality, Profitability, Sourcing, and communication of all GTM and post-sale product details with internal and external partners.

• Manage product assortment and ensure timely execution of product lifecycle transitions through sales analytics and customer feedback
• Identify gaps or white-space opportunities via data driven research to expand a full-package offering for new and existing consumers/categories
• Synchronize with Sales and Supply chain departments to ensure product life cycles are clearly known and executed across all channels
• Drive next-generation product innovation for existing and new product categories through market research and customer feedback
• Build strong relationships with key suppliers and contract manufactures to gain additional resources for idea generation and turnkey opportunities
• Navegate POEM/SWAT process for evaluating new opportunities
• Conduct R&D on product and ingredient ideas and solutions
• Extract consumer insights and analyze sales trends to identify opportunities and compelling recommendations for new products and positions
• Collaborate with stage gate team to build out robust launch calendar and ensure resource requirements are mapped out

• Aggressively manage all product costs and margins that align with company profitability and growth goals
• Maintain active cost schedule to take optimize volume-buying opportunities with supply chain
• Engineer competitive pricing positions that balance market demand with internal marketing and sales requirements

• Cultivate high trust relationships with current and new manufacturing partners
• Negotiate with multiple manufactures to discover cost savings and new service offerings from suppliers to reduce speed to market
• Develop redundancies in product sourcing to ensure product manufacturing is consistent and uninterrupted
• Research new manufactures and product categories that align with the company’s growth goals

• Serve as the ‘Single source of truth’ for internal teams via organized calendaring, staged hand-offs, technical trainings, and communicating constant and clear expectations
• Train and inform Customer Service on new and developing products
• Be the voice between CS and manufactures to help provide the needed info to take care of customers’ needs/questions
• Manage launch calendar and work closely with marketing/sales teams to ensure projects deliver on time

• Ensure all products meet or exceed quality testing standards
• Review and control label/marketing text/website as needed for regulatory compliance.
• Ensure compliance with USDA/FDA regarding manufacturing, documentation, and SOP’s

• Excellent organizational and time management skills, ability to work in a dynamic environment, under pressure with tight deadlines
• Proven ability to multitask, detailed-oriented, and efficient with strong customer service skills
• Mission oriented and results driven personality
• Independent and quick self-learner
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Critical thinker and problem solver
• Proficient in Excel, Google Suite
• Passion for the outdoors, product user with understanding of nutritional needs of outdoor athletes/lifestyles

• Reports directly to Director of Consumable Product Development

• Competitive salary based on experience (60-80k DOE)
• Bonus Annually (Revenue/Ebitda)

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