Manager, Product & Innovation - Hybrid​/Cleveland, OH

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Ubique Group is a digital forward, consumer‑driven powerhouse featuring an expansive portfolio of furniture brands. With over 20 years of building multiple brands from inception to success, Ubique Group offers a wide assortment of furniture solutions and furnishings that represent a perfect balance of form, function and style. At Ubique Group our fingers aren’t just on the pulse of the marketplace, we anticipate it, transforming the typical point‑and‑click shopping experience into an inspired, rewarding consumer journey.
Ubique Group is more than a company; we are a community of passionate, hard‑working, and supportive people who believe in our business and each other. We champion the individual capabilities of our employees and the collective power of the team, and extend that commitment to our surrounding families and communities.

Reporting to the Director of Product & Innovation, this position will manage product life cycle for designated categories from strategy through execution and post‑mortem evaluation. Must be a team player who’s strategic, analytical, and a creative problem solver, with excellent attention to detail. Champion the needs of the collective teams throughout category life cycle ensuring assortment meets strategic growth initiatives and unproductive assortments are rationalized.

Utilize internal and external sales analytics, market insights, & macro trends, to create assortment plans by category that align with goals.

• Own product strategy and lifecycle management for assigned categories, from opportunity identification through post‑launch optimization
• Lead the analysis for designated categories; market research, competitive landscape review, sales analysis, opportunity identification
• Support the execution of product strategy road map; including assortment decisions, SKU expansion, rationalization, pricing direction, and product positioning
• Develop detailed S.W.O.T. business cases; identify opportunities effectively linking insights into tangible strategic plans, highlighting insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
• Define product requirements, value propositions, success metrics, and roadmap priorities aligned to strategic goals
• Partner with the Product Development Manager and Sourcing to translate strategy into executable development plans and align on feasibility, timing, and cost
• Provide strategic direction to Marketing for product content, positioning, competitive benchmarking, and launch messaging
• Partner with Sales on customer and market opportunities; taking lead on development communication, sales review, product additions/updates/ improvements and/or positioning, including sell‑in support, and positioning
• Regularly monitor macro / category trends, category consumer product reviews to generate new, innovative ideas

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 7-10 years previous experience in a product manager or comparable position with a consumer products company, preferably e‑commerce or furniture marketplaces
• Product passion—must love product! Love developing new product
• Advanced skill set in sales analytics, creation of graphs/ charts/ pivot tables
• Ability to operate independently with minimal direction
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations and take accountability for outcomes.
• Customer empathy—must be able to empathize with the customer
• Product pricing experience and working with product development teams
• Strong work ethic—integrity & confidence
• Business acumen—keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business issue
• Analytical and creative problem solver, with excellent attention to detail and organizational abilities
• Superior written, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Knowledge of the industry—previous furniture or housewares industry experience is a plus
• Superior PC skills with advanced capabilities in Microsoft programs…