Tuesday, 06 December 2011 05:55
Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 December 2011 14:54
Written by Sabi Blog
We’re always on the lookout for talent. See below current open positions at Sabi. To apply, send an email to jobs@sabi.com mentioning the relevant job title.
Product Manager
Role and Responsibilities:
The Product Manager will report directly to the CEO and work closely with all members of the Senior Management team. Sabi is looking for an entrepreneurial self-starter to help build and grow our brand and new lines by working with our designers, manufacturers and marketing people to create new lines that adhere to Sabi’s core belief and values, contributing to the development of revolutionary lifestyle products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the product and consumer champion: develop deep expertise in 1-2 Sabi’s product lines by understanding the product portfolio, competitive landscape, marketing positioning, pricing structure, sales channels, industry trends, and consumer needs
- Define the product strategy and roadmap; Ensure that products are positioned correctly for distributors, retail customers and end consumers: create compelling product and packaging briefs; assist with key marketing collateral including product sales sheets and launch plan presentations
- Play a key role in the product development process: conduct formal and informal research to understand consumer wants, needs, and aspirations; translate findings into impactful consumer insights; and support our consumer-centric and design-minded product development process
- Conduct secondary market research to support market sizing and new opportunity analyses
- Establish and maintain reporting and other analytical tools to track and measure category performance, individual product performance, ROI, and industry trends wherever possible
- Monitor and update Senior Management Team with respect to potentially Sabi’s competitive landscape
- Collaborate as a member of the senior management team to ensure Sabi’s brand consistency
- Occasional travel may be required for tradeshows and other marketing events
- Proven technical leadership skills with an ability to solve problems creatively
- A hands-on approach to quickly prototyping and testing out solutions
- A demonstrated ability working with plastic including mechanisms and surfacing
- Experience with a variety of manufacturing processes and materials particularly injection molding
- Experience with all stages of product development, from concept generation to manufacturing release
- Flexibility and comfort working in a quickly changing environment
- Good verbal and written communication skills
Qualifications:
- 1-3 years of product management/design experience or equivalent; ideal candidate will have gained his/her product experience at a branded consumer products company, and be experienced in:
- Working with a cross-functional team to create and launch new products
- Developing products roadmap plans
- Alternative experience may include top-tier strategic consulting with meaningful projects focused in consumer products and retail
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills mandatory; strong business understanding required
- Ability to evaluate products at a strategic level while also able to roll up sleeves and dig into the day-to-day management of the program to find optimization opportunities big and small
- Good relationship builder with strong collaboration skills – will need to build solid working relationships internally and externally—across a range of functional groups, partners and geographies
- Proven interest in developing innovative solutions to meet branding objectives
- Ability to collect / analyze data, and present conclusions on business performance required
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Passionate thinker about consumer behavior and how that translates to product innovation
- Startup or small-company experience is a plus
- Desire to work in a very fast paced and entrepreneurial environment and help shape the organization
Personal Attributes:
- Ability to embrace the urgency and continuous innovation required in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Positive, can-do attitude with a great sense of humor
- Collaborative and collegial
- Analytical; data and metrics driven
- Self-directed/motivated
- Assertive and eager to voice a recommendation/opinion
- Flexible and adaptable; highly resourceful and creative
- Competitive with a passion for winning
- Results orientation
- Enthusiastic
- High integrity; trustworthy
Apply to this job here: jobs@sabi.com
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