Product Manager

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Location:

Bossier City, LA. This position is on-site.

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

The Product Manager will provide overall management direction of one or more product offerings to meet the needs of our customers, including identifying gaps in product offerings at all stages and innovative solutions to fill them.

This role requires a direct understanding of design and manufacturing processes, and industry standards required to establish complete product development, marketing, manufacturing, and sales strategies. The Product Manager is responsible for each product offering from cradle to grave, including the processing of orders.

• Drive the product and business planning processes for cross-functional teams
• Analyze customer needs, current market trends and potential partnerships from an ROI (Return on Investment) perspective, always seeking continuous improvement
• Assess current competitor offerings and seek opportunities for creating advantages
• Analyze product requirements and develop appropriate programs to ensure they’re met
• Develop, implement and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate go-to-market plans
• Lead the Product Team to ensure maximum performance, by providing purpose, direction and motivation
• Lead the Product Team to develop product requirement definitions through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations and implementation plans, including risk mitigation
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure quality standards, schedules and budgets are met or improved upon
• Analyze product and/or project status and, when necessary, revise the scope, schedule or budget to ensure that product and/or project requirements can be met
• Establish and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes

• Drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle, including product and market research, competitor analysis, planning, positioning, requirements, and roadmap development, and product launch
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototyping and final development by engineering teams
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue and ROI
• Analyze market data to develop sales strategies and define product objectives for effective marketing communications
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing and sales teams in the development, quality expectations, release of products and balance resources to ensure success for the entire organization
• Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates Gordon, Inc. across primary market segments
• Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the product lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks
• Assign and monitor resources to ensure product efficiency and maximize deliverables
• Report product outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan
• Provide technical support for the Independent Manufacturer’s Representatives in their role and responsibilities to attain preferential and proprietary specifications for Gordon products
• Work in concert with the Division Sales Managers, Engineers and the respective Business Units to provide Architectural and design support for our customers, Manufacturers’ Reps, as well as providing specifications for Architects
• Provides Technical Sales Service for Independent Reps and all other Customers. Is the focal point of contact for Customer Assistance in the areas of the Product Group(s) assigned
• Works with Architects to design and specify Gordon, Inc. products into the scope of their work
• Sales Order Entry – from receipt of the order through the process of establishing a schedule for shipment that is acceptable to the Customer
• The use of M1 (Our Fully Integrated ERP System) and compliance to established and…