Senior Product Manager
Atlanta, Georgia
Global leader, that for over 40 years has been inventing and reinventing baby toys and gear, launching over 100 new products per year. Brands include: Baby Einstein, Bright Starts, Ingenuity, Oball, and Disney Baby.• Category leader managing and growing global mealtime/feeding category.• Driving communication on category information such as internal sale data, NPD data, global market data, cost of goods, competitive pricing, and product price calculator data.• Developing category strategy and product lifecycle management though short and long-term product line plans (3-5 yr) by brand, channel and price points to drive towards financial goals.• Driving development of individual feeding products through cross-functional teamwork across design, manufacturing, costing, packaging, merchandising, product integrity, and marketing.• Developing product brand strategy for new platform launches, collections, and product concepts that align with branding, as well as, value, good, better, and premium channel segmentation.• Working closely with industrial designers, trend & surface designers, and engineers through product concepting, design, and development – Focusing on the consumer experience.• Collaborating with engineering to prepare new product financial analysis such as pricing, tooling costs and payback analysis and present to executive team for approval.• Developing and scheduling product launches while also planning for production capacity.• Creating 360 product briefs for feeding products, incorporating category insights, industrial and fashion design, messaging, launch strategy, branding and marketing. • Creating & presenting product pitches to the sales team and retailers, both domestic and international, as well as, providing training to educate brand team, sales team, and executive staff.• New products launched in 2017: Ingenuity Chairmate Chair Top High Chairs, Ingenuity 3-In-1 Wood High Chairs, and Baby Einstein 3-In-1 Snack & Discover Seat.