Associate Product Manager, Refrigeration

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Designs, develops and manages supporting activities for a specific product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life. Serves as the central resource to organize product details including item setup, marketing feature details, product testing, competitive comparisons, price and promotion planning. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s life cycle including modifications, upgrades and maintenance of the product or product line. Works with engineering, manufacturing and sales to develop new products or enhance existing product(s) or product line(s).

As the Associate Product Manager, you will:

• Suggest product enhancements to improve the user experience.


• Manage end to end new product process inputs and tracking including but not limited to item set up, marketing assets, pricing set up, training and launch materials.


• Conduct weekly forecast analysis of sell out trends at the account level and recommend changes to sales and forecast teams.


• Participate in recurring meetings with sales, go to market, forecasting and training teams to review product updates and promotion performance.


• Financially model business challenges and propose solutions to PM leadership.


• Develops business plans and product positioning in the marketplace.


• Oversees market research, monitors competitive activity and identifies customer needs.


• Establishes pricing and promotion strategies with support from product leadership.


• Coordinate with other departments to deliver functional solutions.


• Prioritize the implementation of new features and set timelines. Monitor and report on users' reactions post launch.


• Create support and training documents for internal and external users.


• Participate in system configuration and input data supporting products, promotions, pricing, etc.


• Gather and analyze competitive intelligence and messaging.


• Conduct market visits to review competitive products and compile analysis.


• Analyze market trends and products and make recommendations for changes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree is required.


• 3 years experience in high-tech, competitive intelligence, product management, strategic marketing, or strategy/management consulting required.


• Proficient in MS Office especially excel


• Good oral and written communication skills

Recruiting Range

$74,000 - $85,000 USD

Benefits Offered Full-Time Employees:

• No-cost employee premiums for you and your eligible dependents for competitive medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits.


• Auto enrollment with immediate vesting of competitive company matching contributions in a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with several investment options.


• Generous Paid Time Off program that includes company holidays and a combined bank of paid sick and vacation time.


• Performance based Short-Term Incentives (varies by role).


• Access to confidential mental health resources to help you and your loved ones improve your quality of life. Personal fitness goal incentives.


• Family orientated benefits such as paid parental leave and support for families raising children with learning, social, behavioral challenges, or developmental disabilities.


• Group Rate Life and Disability Insurance.

Benefits Offered Temporary/Contractors:

• Eligible for the relevant benefit programs offered through our partner agencies.

At LG, we aspire to empower people and celebrate differences because we believe diversity will create the unexpected. We provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Consistent with our commitment to providing equal opportunity and embracing diversity, LG has implemented affirmative action to ensure applicants are employed and employees are treated without regard to these characteristics.

In addition to the above, LG believes that pay transparency is a key part of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our salary ranges take into account many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skillset, experience, licensure, certifications, internal equity, and other business needs. While we consider geographic pay differentials in final offers, because we operate in many geographies where applicable, the salary range listed may not reflect all geographic differentials applied .