Business Product Manager

Take ownership of the strategy and growth of a key product category, shaping the product roadmap and bringing innovative offerings to market. You will leverage market insights, competitive analysis, and financial performance to guide pricing, forecasting, and lifecycle decisions that drive profitable growth. This role works cross-functionally with global teams, sales partners, and customers while leading a team focused on delivering strong business results.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Build Mid to Long term strategy plan for Product Category and take ownership of executing strategy, go to market execution and profitably.
• Create and maintain product line-up and life cycle management, evaluate price positioning and determine if/when appropriate changes are required.
• Analyze P&L and set category budget, provide management reporting for spend, profit, share with fluctuation analysis and commentary.
• Continuously monitor Total Addressable Market and Market Share targets adapting strategy when necessary to achieve goals.
• Conduct weekly conference call with HQ teams sharing market insights and gaining global perspective and overall direction for the category. (Market / Competition /Product Planning).
• Prepare customer collaboration, market analysis, product research, competitive landscape snapshot, channel inventory analysis.
• Represent the category, along with Carrier and National Account Sales Team for partner meetings.
• Participating in end customer product presentations as needed.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining yearly forecasting and monthly forecast submission for the overall category, and presenting plan and strategy to executives.
• Responsible for providing daily direction to all staff by delegating and scheduling work to the assigned team, and monitors work completion and quality according to procedures and deadlines.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

• Demonstrated analytical skills – forecasting, operations, market research.
• Product management and lifecycle management.
• Market analysis and competitive intelligence.

Premium Retail Services is a part of Acosta Group – a collective of the industry’s most trusted retail, marketing and foodservice agencies reimagining the way people connect with brands at every point in their shopping journey.

Since 1985, Premium has been a top provider of sales and merchandising services, reshaping retail through innovation and excellence for hundreds of renowned brands across retail categories.

With 12,000+ employees across the U.S. and Canada, we are a people-first company, and we strive to ensure our team members enjoy their jobs, feel valued, and emulate our core beliefs – that’s why we frequently promote from within. We encourage our employees to innovate and expand new horizons, making internal development our cornerstone. Find your place at Premium – whether it’s merchandising, sales or brand advocacy, there's a spot for you on our team.

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Acosta, and its subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Category: Administration

Position Type: Full time

Business Unit: Marketing

Salary Range: $132,000.00 - $132,000.00

Company: Premium Retail Services (Canada), Inc.

Req ID: 23726