Product Specialist

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Product Manager

Pella, IA (hybrid)

Brand Product Specialists are responsible for research and analysis that provides insight and direction for market growth initiatives and serve as key inputs for corporate strategy and demand planning. At Pella, they serve as strong advocates of the customer and help their teams make better decisions, address key challenges and concerns, and identify new ways to grow through their insight and in-depth customer and market knowledge.

These positions serve as an important and effective development path to future roles in brand product management and general management at Pella Corporation. Brand Product Specialists provide leadership and coordination across multiple business functions in areas such as strategic portfolio maintenance, problem resolution, competitive comparison, price/cost analysis, and customer market understanding.

• Competitive Analysis & Market Research
  • Develop understanding of key competitors’ products, features, and pricing. Use this knowledge to make recommendations that align with core business competencies and strategies.
  • Responsible for understanding and documenting market trends at the feature, product, brand, segment, distribution, and geographic market level. Ability to use and create primary and secondary data, including field visits, feedback from sales team members, and external market research to gain a working knowledge of the market. Use this information to make strategic recommendations.
  • Provide and leverage actionable insights to define, recommend and /or co‑create strategic solutions.
  • Develop business specific market, product, and customer knowledge to better serve the needs of senior staff and customers.
  • Supporting role in projects that help shape long‑term strategy, including evaluating new opportunities, strategic approaches, and marketplace trends.
• Business Case and Product Specification Development
  • Translate market needs and competitive insight into a product/project spec to enable cross‑functional understanding and alignment.
  • Create market forecasts to “size the prize” for strategic organizational initiatives.
  • Ability to lead cross‑functional teams in the high‑level development of project scope and financial business cases to allow for strategic roadmap prioritization.
• Business Performance Analysis
  • Working business and financial acumen. Support analysis of monthly P&Ls and helps identify problems/trends/anomalies.
  • Provide regular market and business analysis regarding market trends and Pella brand/program adoption. Work with finance, sales, product development & delivery, operations, and merchandising to evaluate and manage win/loss data to understand and quantify customer decisions.
  • Identify potential business issues and develop contingency plans to effectively mitigate risks.
  • Provide market insight and voice of customer support on growth initiatives operationally across product management, sales, marketing, and merchandising to ensure delivery of strategic intent.
  • Work closely with department teammates to assist in evaluating, implementing, and monitoring progress on key development opportunities.
  • Develop dashboards, executive summaries, and weekly/monthly reports to measure against KPIs and market dynamics. Including ad‑hoc analytical support for proper leaders.
  • Summarize and provide digestible information regarding analysis and insight to communicate to external and internal clients/stakeholders.
  • Support less experienced peers through mentoring and project‑based development and coaching.
  • Use a professional presentation style to communicate and create effective visuals that convey data/info in a comprehensive & easily consumable manner, with clear takeaways.
  • Leverage sound decision making and problem‑solving skills.
  • Ability to develop strong collaborative relationships with internal and external partners.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities effectively and work efficiently in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strategic Initiative Enablement

The position will require some travel (approx. 25 percent).

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's or Graduate’s Degree in Business, Business Administration, Marketing, Computer Science or Engineering.
• Minimum of 3–5 years experience in a professional setting.
• Working technical product knowledge and Pella go‑to‑market knowledge – OR – prior strategic market analysis or product management experience preferred.
• Computer
  
  Skills:
  
  Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Sales and Business Development
• Industries:
  Wholesale Building Materials

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