Senior Product Manager (Lifestyle)

Why join us?

Knoll uses modern design to connect people to their work, their lives, their world. Since 1938, we have been recognized internationally for creating workplace and residential furnishings that inspire, evolve, and endure.

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Knoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Knoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

Why join us?

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of MillerKnoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

About this Opportunity
As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll serve as product champion for a specified product line or group of product line(s) by developing, implementing, and managing product management and improvement activities to provide optimum sales and profits. Accountable for managing the specified product line(s) to support all of the corporate strategies including the development of cross-platform work process elements, components, and collections. Serves as a critical leader within product marketing.

 
What You'll Do
You'll have opportunities to speak up, solve problems, lead others, and be an owner every day as you...

• Develops, drives, and implements individual, multiple, or more critical product plans and strategy.
• Directs ongoing analyses and leads the pricing and discounting strategy for a group of products to provide greatest financial performance.
• Provides category feedback to innovation and kitchen development teams and support and integrate the launch plans. Support and integrate launch plans as appropriate.
• Provides direction, make recommendations, and make decisions in support of data management system functionality and usage.
• Supports strategic sales opportunities and provide product updates to sales. Defines analytical tools necessary to provide insight necessary for decision making for a group of products.
• Defines product sales support and training requirements to support several products within a category. Leads presentations, both internally and externally, for critical product training and other various presentation opportunities.
• Owns the effort to resolve quality issues, evaluate and drive changes that highly affect P&L.
• Responsible for the financial health of the product lines or groups of products including accountability for P&L.
• Manages the product life cycle of the product lines or groups of products from introduction, through growth and maturity, to decline and discontinuation. Provides input on product simplification/discontinuation for product lines or groups of products.
• Acts as a mentor to help develop other Product colleagues. Provide direction and priority setting in absence of Work Team Leader.

 
Sound Like You?
You might be just who we’re looking for if you have . . .

• Bachelor's Degree in Merchandising, Business, or Design.
• Master's Degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in product management/product marketing or related experience.
• 3+ years of project management, leadership, or management experience.
• Contract furniture of capital goods marketing experience preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of the customer and sales process with demonstrated customer and field interaction.
• Full understanding of operations, production, supply management, full value stream.
• Applies understanding of MillerKnoll’s channels, including dealer and/or retail, and understanding their main functions (sales, design, and operations) to develop product strategies for one or more products.
• Demonstrated high level of written, verbal and interpersonal skills to communicate information, ideas, procedures and processes in a logical sequence; at a level appropriate to the audience and resulting in effective working relationships.
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial, risk-taking, and creative design orientation.
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent responsibilities and work in a constantly changing environment. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple major projects and priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines. Outstanding leadership skills with proven creative problem-solving skills and the ability to lead through in