Associate Product Manager - Merchandising

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Meet Us: King Arthur Baking Company has been sharing the joy of baking since 1790. Headquartered in Norwich, Vermont, we’re the ultimate baking resource – providing education, inspiration, and the highest quality products, all while fostering connections and community through baking. Our superior flours and mixes are available in supermarkets nationwide, and our direct-to-consumer business – website and retail stores – offers an even wider selection of specialty baking ingredients, mixes, gluten‑free products, baking tools, and more.

We bring baking education to millions of bakers through our cookbooks, podcast, recipe app, website, and baking school. We’re proud to be 100% employee‑owned, which means everyone who works here has a real voice and a shared stake in what we do. This creates a strong sense of community built on trust, teamwork, and love of baking. As a benefit corporation, we’re committed to the best interests of all our stakeholders - employees, our local communities, our broader community of bakers, and our planet.

Join us and help spread the joy of baking. King Arthur – where, as an employee‑owner, your passion and ideas can truly make a difference.

The Position: The Associate Product Manager
- Merchandising supports the annual business objectives of the Direct Consumables Team by utilizing sales, data, customer insights and baking trends to identify opportunities for optimization, inform product assortment decisions, and support near-in line extensions and category gap innovation. The Associate Product Manager
- Merchandising collaborates with cross‑functional teams to support consistent product presentation across channels and coordinates vendor communication, product sample evaluation, and updates to product specifications, pricing, costs, and margins. The role supports the end‑to‑end product development and commercialization process, from concept through launch, by assessing product viability, tracking relevant trends, and partnering with Innovation and the Product Manager on business rationale and innovation briefs.

The Benefits: Yes, we have the standard  stuff  - medical, dental, vision, company paid short- and long‑term disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, paid time off to rest, paid holidays to have fun, a 401(k) with a company match.
But here's what makes us different: 40 paid volunteer hours a year, profit sharing*, participation in the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
* and knowing that those working with you are dedicated and engaged co‑employee owners that believe in you and your extraordinary abilities to move us all forward.

The

Location:

Hybrid combining working from home, and onsite in White River Junction VT roughly 2 days per week. Ideal candidates will be located within 120 miles of our offices.

The Pay: $56,000 to $75,700 annual salary; commensurate with experience.

• Partner with digital merchandising, copywriting, and creative teams to support consistent product presentation across web, catalog, retail, and packaging, including clear points of differentiation and data‑informed marketing recommendations.
• Track and communicate baking‑related product trends and competitive landscape insights to inform product assortment, pricing, and sell strategy.
• Prepare regular and ad hoc sales performance reporting across channels and translate findings into clear recommendations.
• Coordinate vendor communication, sourcing activities, and product sample evaluation for directly sourced food and ingredients.
• Coordinate commercialization process for directly sourced items, partnering with supply chain, master data, and creative teams from product selection through launch execution.
• Maintain accurate item setup, product specifications, and other product records across internal systems to support launch…