Senior Product Manager, Luxury Cooking & Innovation

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Full-time

Description

The Senior Product Manager – Luxury Cooking is our pivotal product champion responsible for leading the development and lifecycle of product innovation to drive growth across our core luxury brands — Viking, AGA, and La Cornue.

This role identifies high-impact innovation opportunities that align with the company's growth strategy, evolving consumer needs, and market trends, and deliver differentiated value propositions.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, consumer-focused product leader who combines business acumen, analytical thinking, and collaborative leadership to deliver meaningful value to customers and the business.



Key Responsibilities

• Own Category & Portfolio Strategy:
  Lead category lifecycle management, product roadmap development and portfolio strategy across Ranges, Cooktops and Built-in to drive sustainable growth across core brands.
• Drive Category, Competitor & Consumer Insights:
  Translate consumer research, market trends, competitor analysis into actionable product strategies, differentiated propositions and future-state roadmap priorities.
• Champion End-to-End NPI:
  Lead NPI development and champion the tollgate process from project definition, proposition development, portfolio and PIPO strategy, and business case validation to launch management and post-launch optimization.
• Own Portfolio P&L & Cost Management:
  Partner with Finance and cross-functional stakeholders to manage portfolio-level revenue, margin, cost, and investment assumptions, ensuring innovation decisions are commercially robust and aligned with business objectives.
• Drive Lifecycle Management & Transitions:
  Lead portfolio and line reviews to define phase-in/phase-out plans, including assortment decisions, inventory transitions, last-time buys, replacement mapping, customer communication, and end-of-life risk mitigation.
• Launch Management:
  Partners closely with Brand Marketing to develop compelling product positioning, launch strategies, sales enablement, and training that ensure successful product introductions and sustained business growth.
• Define Channel-Product Strategy:
  Partner with Sales and Marketing teams to align product assortment, positioning, launch priorities to enable channel growth.
• Post-Launch Hyper Care:
  Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs), including revenue, gross margin, market share, and customer satisfaction, recommending improvements as needed.

• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, Innovation Management, or related roles.
• Experience leading new product development from concept through commercialization.
• Strong financial acumen.
• Experience in consumer appliances or durables preferred.