VP, Product Management

Job Title: VP, Product Management

Location: Aston, PA / Radnor, PA

Job Type: Full-time, Hybrid

Reporting to: Chief Product Officer

Direct Reports: Product Management team

 

Company Overview: 

FXI is a leading producer of foam innovation in the Bedding, Furniture, Industrial, Home & Office, Healthcare, and Transportation markets. We have made it our mission to provide tailored solutions that delight our customers and consumers. With our corporate headquarters, high-tech research and development facility, and multiple manufacturing locations in North America, FXI has built a culture of innovation and achievement that is recognized by customers, suppliers and peers. Our products include finished goods, sub-assemblies, services, and raw materials for OEMs, fabricators, and retailers. You will find FXI's foam innovations inside, around, and under yourself in countless applications. Everywhere foam goes, FXI's innovations lead the way! Won't you join us?

 

Job Overview:

FXI is seeking an experienced Vice President, Product Management to lead the product lifecycle for the assigned product lines (Mattresses, Pillows and Soft Furniture). In conjunction with the CPO, this senior level role defines the product strategy and roadmap, ensures product excellence, and drives profitable revenue growth across the portfolio. The VP sets the product vision, builds and leads the product management team, and aligns functions across the enterprise to a shared strategy. As a key role provides market intelligence, pricing strategy, consumer insight, and go-to-market leadership while directing cross-functional teams to optimize speed to market.

• Lead the assigned product line(s) and define the multi-year product portfolio strategy and vision across markets, brands, and channels. Overall leadership across retail (mattress, pillow, topper, soft furniture) and engineering solutions strategic categories.  Will lead by example thru direct leadership in mattress product category management.
• Partner closely with business lines, marketing, and sales to develop multi-year product strategies aligned with customer needs to ensure long-term, profitable revenue growth.
• Create go-to-market strategy for product line introductions and refreshes, setting product development direction and new-product value propositions.
• Develop and execute product roadmaps in partnership with product development, sourcing, procurement, and logistics for on-time supply chain operations, and establish KPIs by which to measure success.
• Oversee the entire consumer centric product lifecycle—from concept and design through sample production, testing, forecasting, cost, mass production, promotion, support, and product end-of-life.
• Lead the development, presentation, and continuous review of business cases; make evidence-based recommendations on the initiation and termination of projects.
• Develop and present new-opportunity business cases to the Executive Team for approval, ensuring alignment with organizational growth and profitability targets.
• Maintain authoritative market, competitive, and pricing intelligence, including benchmarking, to inform go-to-market strategy; oversee SKU rationalization as needed.
• Implement customer segmentation strategies and gather customer feedback through account and channel managers to inform future product iterations.
• Build and lead consumer learning capabilities—including voice-of-consumer research, usage and ethnographic studies, and end-user insights—to translate them into actionable product requirements.
• Collaborate with product development to lead consumer-driven iterative development, using rapid prototyping, in-market and concept testing, and structured consumer feedback loops to accelerate speed to market.
• Monitor and anticipate consumer market trends—including shifts in consumer preferences, demographics, sustainability expectations, and emerging end-use applications—to guide portfolio strategy, innovation priorities, and long-term growth opportunities.
• Educate and enable sales on product lines, technologies, market trends, and the competitive landscape; attend customer meetings to present product strategy.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration among Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Product Development and R&D to achieve product