Product Manager-Ingredients

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Product management links the market to manufacturing and translates market needs into the language of scientists, sales and operations. They drive insights and facilitate choice at the intersection of competition dynamics and market dynamics to illuminate “when to compete”. Product Management works closely with Technical Business Development (where to play) and Marketing (How to win) to develop and implement our strategy of accelerating the almond evolution and ensuring the annual sales budget is met or exceeded.

They can strike a balance between understanding customer priorities and establishing a realistic sense of urgency to drive our organization to be responsive to the market. The product manager supports the “when to compete” by optimizing our cost to serve through product portfolio optimization, competitive advantage optimization and optimizing value for service. This role combines analysis and execution by building, scoping, presenting and steering business cases to critically evaluate solutions, facilitates choice around options and project manages implementation to ensure the best global solution is made for Blue Diamond.

This role also serves as liaison with operations groups (i.e. quality, manufacturing, product value enhancement, R&D, etc.) assuring their input is reflected in business cases and support is aligned for execution while also assuring Global Ingredients Division input is reflected in operations initiatives. Lastly collaborate with the marketing manager to implement value-based pricing tools and strategies to support profit margin goals.

Leverage insights to facilitate choice around what products/services respond to the customers jobs-to-be done and “when to compete.”

• Ensure product portfolio supports the product strategy and profit margin goals through regular SKU rationalization, reviews of product positioning and overall portfolio architecture; maintain alignment with product portfolio and price list
• Collaborate with global supply to routinely look for ways to enhance margins, packaging and the GID product line
• Maintain a living portfolio of projects that identify potential improvements and develop business cases that rank, prioritize and facilitate choice;
  Provides insight and guidance to ensure new product projects are in alignment with GID strategic, volume and financial objectives
• Develop business cases that critically evaluate, prioritize and balance solution elements (product, service, price, capabilities, technology, etc.) and facilitate choice around new SKU request or product value enhancement projects;
  In collaboration with sales management and global supply, ensure the best global solution is made for BDG
• Lead the cross functional team to commercialize new products, new SKUs product improvement and effectively leverage our commercialization checklist, PDR/MMRF forms and the SAP system
• Partner with marketing, and technical service to prepare market introduction and implement training for new product launches/product changes
• Represents GID across various cross functional teams and enables bi-directional communication around key initiatives, advocating for balance between BDG - centric and customer-centric approach in production of product, delivery of products/services and implementation of new processing technology
• Make regular site visits to the respective manufacturing plants to ensure product policy and processes is aligned between GID and Operations, documented, and executed accurately. Engage with stakeholders to synchronize on the needs of the business and initiate further review if required with Quality Assurance, Operations, etc. to evolve the product line

Develop a deep understanding of the competitive products and technologies, macro and market trends aligned with almond market dynamics to communicate insights

• Be the product champion and product portfolio expert to ensure our products/services meet customer requirements, respond to…