Sr. Product Manager

Senior Product Manager – Rosemont, Illinois

Position Summary:

Leads Prestone Performance Chemicals to build consumer and commercial demand, market share, sales, and profitability. Sets the strategy, product portfolio, pricing, marketing, and new product roadmap, and drives overall P&L results.

Direct Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• STRATEGY: analyzes information to set a growth strategy across Performance Chemical segments, both for the current market and for the future of electric vehicle sales; recommends product classes to enter, exit, and maintain, and how to win.

• MARGIN/PRODUCT PORTOLIO MANAGEMENT: understands drivers of the P&L and supports cross-functional initiatives to improve product margin while maintaining product quality. Seeks to grow product margin and prunes unprofitable SKUs. Manages the day-to-day operations of the Performance Chemicals line, including but not limited to analyzing POS performance, executing marketing research, addressing commercial/customer needs, and resolving product issues.

• PRICING: sets pricing for new products and guardrails on existing products. Reviews product family margins, costs, and pricing on a regular basis and recommends price increases or decreases, as needed.

• INNOVATION: sets the innovation strategy for the Performance Chemicals line. Creates a robust new product pipeline grounded in consumer insights, market needs, and company capabilities, to drive sales. Partners with R&D on front-end discovery and developmental stages and works with our project management team (PMO) to follow a stage-gate implementation process. Ensures new products meet financial and operational hurdles.

• MARKETING: develops all Performance Chemical marketing communications, including packaging, digital ads, website, videos, social media, in-store merchandising, and trade show materials, to drive sales and branding. Sets clear statements of work and assignment briefs with all agencies. Partners with the broader product marketing team to maintain Prestone branding guidelines. Independently manages the Performance Chemicals marketing budget, partnering with Finance on invoicing and tracking.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in marketing or related field. MBA preferred.

Position Experience:

• Seven or more years of brand management or product development experience, including a minimum of three years managing product margin, pricing, and developing new products in collaboration with research and development
• Seven or more years of experience leading cross-functional teams
• Prior P&L accountability desired
• Ability to fluctuate between being strategic and “big picture”, yet also be detail and process-oriented. Comfortable with ambiguity
• Strong entrepreneurial aptitude and solution-focused mindset. A strong sense of urgency and ability to manage numerous projects at the same time
• Ability to make fact-based recommendations and then act quickly and decisively
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team
• MS Office skills
• Approximately 5-10% of travel required

We are KIK!

We create the products and brands that people trust to clean, sanitize, and protect their homes, pools, and cars. We are one of North America’s largest independent consumer product manufacturers with 20 North American manufacturing facilities. We also operate globally in Europe, Asia, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. We are known by our portfolio of over 40 brands including Spic and Span® and Comet® cleaning products, Clorox® Pool&Spa™ (under license), BioGuard®, and Natural Chemistry® pool chemicals, and Prestone® and Holts® automotive performance chemicals. We are also the #1 producer in North America for store-brand (“private label”) bleach and a leading private label provider of laundry detergent and additives, dishwashing products, general purpose cleaning and other home care products.

Our global team of over 2,500 employees drive our capabilities in product development, product formulation, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, packaging design, brand marketing, project management, quality assurance, compliance, distribution, and logistics.

Our organization is constantly evolving and is driven by a set of “One KIK” values – a dedication to following through on commitments in a customer-focused, profit-motivated way; while never compromising on safety, ethics, or integrity.

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