Senior Seasonal Product Manager

Company Overview: MacKenzie-Childs is a leading home furnishings retail company known for its unique design, high-quality products and exceptional customer service. We specialize in offering a wide range of kitchen, entertaining, décor and furniture items that cater to various styles and preferences, ensuring our customers find exactly what they need to make their homes joyful and stylish.

Position Summary:

Lead and manage all aspects of the Seasonal Product Development Department, collaborating closely with Merchandise Planning and Design. Focus includes but is not limited to new product design, sourcing, managing, negotiating, and assorting and editing product categories in order to maximize company sales growth and profitability.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: (Additional duties may be assigned)

Product Development:

· Research unique opportunities for new seasonal products in assigned categories that support the brand direction. Work with vendors to identify new manufacturing opportunities within manufacturer’s area of expertise. Make sure all new development supports the brand direction of fun, quirky, artisanal, positive, colorful, and authentic products that convey our point of view on decorating “The Home.”

· Maintain knowledge of home furnishings market trends through research and competitive shopping to ensure the development of unique products that will thrive in a competitive landscape.

· Attend trade shows as appropriate for category growth.

· Identify trends in categories, styles, and silhouettes. Lead development of unique offerings with direction and approval of Creative Director/Chief Brand Officer.

· Create and organize new product lists for each season with CD/CBO and Product Planning to outline groundwork for new products for future seasons through constructive conversations using data analytics and creative thinking.

· Manage assignments given by CD/CBO for development of new product concepts.

· Develop collections within agreed upon themes within a range of product values for each collection.

· Manage oversight, management and career development for all subordinates in the Seasonal Division including but not limited to Product Managers, Product Manager Assistant, and Merchandising Assistant associates.

· Ensure that product development is in accordance with the timeline set forth in the Design and Development Calendar.

· Collaborate and encourage open communication between all internal and external Product Managers and associates including designers to assure the most comprehensive collection development.

· Manage vendor performance and create performance improvement plans at any time necessary implementing scheduled calls and reporting tools for remediation.

Business Management:

· Manage the life cycle of all products in assigned categories which includes strategic planning of the product assortment, vendor selection, communication with the vendor, sampling, sales collateral and packaging inclusion if appropriate, negotiations of tooling and finished costs, pricing, timely delivery, and getting products to market in an organized and timely manner.

· Promote growth in categories through planning and product developme