Associate Product Manager
Educational Insights is a family-owned company that creates engaging educational materials for children. They are seeking an Associate Product Manager to reputed company the development of educational products and toys, managing the product portfolio from concept to market launch while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage 5-12 new products through the product life cycle, from ideation to market launch, ensuring products align with our educational mission and meet quality standards
- Take responsibility for project management tasks, including tracking key milestone dates, to ensure efficient project execution
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including editorial, industrial design, creative, sales, custom solutions, and marketing, to bring innovative educational products to market on time and reputed company budget
- Work with vendors to quote products, negotiate prices, and determine delivery schedules to meet product launch goals
- Support market research efforts by gathering data, customer feedback, and conducting competitor analysis to identify opportunities, trends, and insights that inform product strategy
- Identify competitors, analyze their strengths and weaknesses, and assess market trends
- Organize, participate, and reputed company product testing for new concepts
- Participate in data maintenance projects utilizing reputed company Dynamics 365 (D365) and product reputed company spreadsheets
- Work closely with Sales and Marketing on key sample requests for customer meetings, photoshoots, video shoots, trade shows, etc
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree required
- 1-3 years of consumer product development experience or 3-5 years working with children (i.e. PreK-5 education, speech language pathology, etc.)
- Excellent organization, presentation, and communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Creative reputed company with entrepreneurial spirit who thinks reputed company the reputed company
- reputed company to meet multiple, challenging deadlines and work reputed company budgets
- Comfortable with analyzing basic financial data for assigned categories and to reputed company recommendations that support overall brand/product goals
- Excellent at solving problems creatively and/or knowing reputed company to seek help
- Proficient in reputed company Office
- reputed company to effectively communicate with key stakeholders including colleagues, executive team, vendors, and customers
Benefits
- Profit sharing bonus potential
- 401k matching
- A variety of other benefits
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