Product Manager Jobs

Overview

Who We Are:

Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries. We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are. We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members’ unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You will Get:

• Holiday, personal and vacation days.
• Fair and competitive compensation.
• A unique, inclusive and supportive company culture.
• Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
• Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.

Summary/Objective:

This position provides business line support for planning product plans and direction, channel support, and sales support. The Product Manager interacts with sales, product development, engineering, marketing and customer service to ensure that marketing programming and direction accurately reflects benefits and features from every user perspective and persona.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. 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.

• Track customer care, dashboard, metrics, consumer feedback, customer satisfaction to measure performance and employment of existing and new functionalities and features
• Develop product plans that drive share and/or revenue growth
• Collaborate with senior managers to define the product roadmap by developing market-specific problem statements, using business cases, scenarios, sharing recommendations and results
• Collaborate cross functionally on competitor pricing, market development, item analytics, selling and field solutions
• Complete competitive analysis and providing insights to Manager
• Support channel partners with sales collateral, best practices, and training
• Design and implement product launches for offline and online channels
• Approves press releases, marketing bulletins, & new product launches

Working Conditions:

• May sit for several hours at a time.
• Prolonged exposure to computer screens.
• Primarily working indoors, office environment.
• Repetitive use of hands to operate computers, printers, and copiers.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of product development or product marketing experience, knowledgeable within the RV or Marine Industries
• Bachelor’s Degree in business, marketing or related field

Essential Functions:

• Determine product pricing based on market research, product costs and anticipated demand
• Communicate and train Salespeople, Customer Service, Tech Services and other departments on product lines
• Collaborate with Quality and Testing teams and provide priority direction
• Manage a product team and provides coaching, direction and leads by example
• Conduct ongoing product life cycle reviews and works with team on product rationalization

Competencies:

• Planning
• Customer Focused
• Managerial Courage
• Results, Actions Oriented
• Decision Quality
• Inspiring and Motivating Others
• Developing Talent

Supervisory Responsibility:

This role may have any supervisory responsibility upon hiring.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time, salaried position working 40-45 hours a week.

Travel:

Travel will be 10% of the role.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• MBA or Master’s Degree preferred

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

N/A

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

Must be able to pass EVerify.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Team Member for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Pay Group : AAP/EEO Statement

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law. This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters. All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert’s strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member. Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members. Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership. Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.