Senior Product Line Manager

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

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Job Description

This role is designated as a hybrid role which includes working at least 3 days per week in office (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) to foster better collaboration, connection, and innovation.  This role is responsible for a managing the portfolio of performance and compliance related products.   

As a Senior Product Manager, Performance and Compliance, you will be empowered and expected to grow margin and profitability of your product lines within the Outdoors business focused on the B2B Primary Purchasers and influencers including Architect/Designer, General Contractors, and Builders enabling the BU to meet its overall financial objective. You will provide thought leadership and direction to ensure we have the right product certifications, with the necessary performance ratings, in the right channels, with the right pricing architecture. You will have a deep understanding of regional and national codes and compliance, and necessary performance required to increase market share and profitability throughout the product lifecycle. The ability to create and execute successful strategies, build narratives around those strategies, and influence multiple stakeholders internally and externally are necessary for success.

YOUR ROLE:

The bullet points below reflect roughly 80% of your job. We are a fast-paced company, you may be pulled in a variety of different directions with tasks added or changed.

• Champion the “Voice of the Customer” by developing a thorough understanding of our B2B Primary Purchasers and the performance and certification needs.  Conduct competitive analysis and gain insight to certification gaps or advantages.
• In collaboration with the FBIN COE’s and functions, Create Product Performance and Certification Strategies that align to and enable the BU’s strategic plan.  Articulate the strategy on what we should sell and innovate more or less of, and how we will position our performance products to different B2B channels on a regional and national level.
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to gather requirements, prioritize certifications and performance needs, and translate them into technical specifications and properly scoped test plans.
• Analyze product performance data, user behavior, regional and national codes and compliance needs, and competitive portfolios to inform product decisions and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and execute annual product plans in partnership with Outdoors Product Managers focused on certification and performance needs to meet growth, market share, and profitability goals. Manage trade-offs and balance conflicting demands to execute required initiatives. 
• Plan and manage new product development projects through the entirety of a stage-gate process.
• Educate the Organization on the various code requirements and performance certifications and our product solutions to enable market growth.                       
• Partner with Revenue Growth Management, sales, analytics and finance teams to understand channel dynamics & competitive positioning.  Develop business cases to initiative new product develop projects or new certification testing that enables profitable growth.
• Influence and educate the business on how we go to market.  Provide thought leadership and direction within and outside the organization for business, technical or competitive issues

• Effectively communicate and explain the rationale of product line strategies, positioning, channel needs, financial impact, priorities and customer requirements. 
• Provide sales and product training support to drive revenue and profitability goals of our performance product lines.  Attend industry-related trade shows, sales meetings, and maintain trade association contacts as ne