We are seeking an Associate Product Manager responsible for maximizing revenue and profitability of a portion of our Label Printing Systems portfolio. The Associate Product Manager will be responsible for supporting and executing plans to grow their portfolio from cradle-to-grave, including ideation, business case development, product design, product development, commercial launch, growth, maturity, decline, and EOL. Their time will be split between new product development support and product lifecycle management.
Preferred Qualifications- New Product Development: Support the development and implementation of a long-term new product development roadmap.
- Product Lifecycle Management: Support the development and implementation of plans to maximize revenue and profitability for existing products from product introduction, growth, maturity, decline, and end of life.
- Research: Gathers and analyzes customer insights via Voice of the Customer (VOC), quantitative research, and focus groups resulting in better meeting diverse customer needs and developing more accurate business cases.
- Financials: Understand and support management of product category Profit & Loss (P&L).
- Competition: Gather knowledge about the competitive environment that drives action to Sales, Marketing and R&D.
- Commercialization: Support and execute commercialization strategies to maximize success of new product launches using an omni-channel approach using direct sales and distributors.
- Positioning: Participate in developing product pricing and positioning strategies to maximize profit as needed.
- Stakeholders: Evangelize your product category through engagements with sales, channel, marketing, operations, R&D, regional product managers, and more.
- Success is measured by organic growth, increasing gross margins, and a strong pipeline.
Skills Required
- Support development and implementation of a long-term new product development roadmap.
- Support product lifecycle management to maximize revenue and profitability from introduction through end-of-life.
- Gather and analyze customer insights via VOC, quantitative research, and focus groups.
- Understand and support management of product category Profit & Loss (P&L).
- Gather competitive intelligence to inform Sales, Marketing, and R&D actions.
- Support and execute commercialization strategies for new product launches using omni-channel approaches.
- Participate in developing product pricing and positioning strategies to maximize profit.
- Engage and evangelize product category with sales, channel, marketing, operations, R&D, and regional product managers.
- Drive success measured by organic growth, increasing gross margins, and maintaining a strong pipeline.
What We Do
Brady Corporation is an international manufacturer and marketer of complete solutions that identify and protect people, products and places. Brady’s products help customers increase safety, security, productivity and performance and include high-performance labels, signs, safety devices, printing systems and software. Founded in 1914, the Company has a diverse customer base in electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical, construction, medical, aerospace and a variety of other industries. Brady is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and as of July 31, 2021, employed approximately 5,700 people in its worldwide businesses. Brady’s fiscal 2021 sales were approximately $1.14 billion. Brady stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BRC. More information is available on the Internet at www.bradycorp.com.
