Product Manager

(Job Id W376223)
Posted on 8/20/2010
Location:

Houston, TX


Job Type:

Full Time


Salary: $70000.00 to $95000.00/year
Degree: Bachelor
Corporate Resources, Inc.
Job Description
COMPANY:  Multi-billion $$, multi-faceted international corporation.  This Divisional Busniess Unit holds a leading position in the material handling equipment market through design, manufacture, distribution and service.

POSITION:  This Product Manager is one of four PM's reporting to the Director of Product Management and is a replacement for an individual that needed to relocate for personal reasons.

OPPORTUNITY: 
  • Extraordinarily stable company with growth, profitability and a strong sense of Corporate Green Social Responsibility. 
  • Beautiful, well-organized, non-union manufacturing and distribution operations covering 42 acres and almost 600K square feet. 
  • Very strong dealer and service network. 
  • Considered one of the top 25 employers in the metro for the last 5 years. 
  • Possess an enviable track record of Community Leadership including significant involvement in the Spirit of Texas Toy Drive, the Spirit of Texas Food Drive, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Fund Raising event as well as many other involements and initiatives.
  • A ground floor opportunity to be the Product Manager for a new product offering from an internationally recognized name in material handling equipment.

SOME KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Provide comprehensive industry niche marketing and sales assessment including size, trends, forecasts, etc.
  • Provides marketing, sales strategies, tools and implementation
  • Responds to field and dealer inquiries on product related issues, including pricing, specifications, applications, market trends, availability, competition, and competitive countermeasures.
  • Coordinates cross-functional focus teams to implement Product Launch through dealer meetings.
  • Delivers continuous feedback to the Program Manager to ensure alignment of product development with Business Plan objectives for the program.
  • Development of sales training materials.

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • MUST - Personality is as important as raw professional experience credentials.  We need an intelligent, energetic person with exceptional communication skills and a can-do attitude.
  • MUST - Possess at least once significant quantifiable accomplishment within the last three years related to Product Management or Marketing (not a direct sales function).
  • MUST - Minimum of 5 years of recent related Product Management experience (not only sales) for industrially manufactured machinery/equipment - such as mobile material handling, mobile heavy equipment or automotive, etc.
  • MUST - Possess practical knowledge of financial accounting and analysis for business plan development.
  • PREFERRED - Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Sales or Business.  Other degrees considered coupled with well-suited core experience.
  • A PLUS - Experience marketing product targeting Big Box Store markets.