Product Manager – Power Tools

Naperville, IL
Full Time
Product
Experienced
Chervon is one of the world's largest power tool and lawn and garden equipment manufactures with a rich history of innovation. Chervon’s commitment to build a better world by building better tools is evident in the products we manufacture and our green approach to manufacturing. We focus on hand-held portable power tools, stationary bench tools, laser and electronic equipment and outdoor power equipment. With world-class R&D, manufacturing, design, marketing, sales, and service teams throughout the world, we do it all.

Job Summary:

The Product Manager - Power Tools will be responsible for several core categories within Chervon’s portfolio of tools, focused on the North America Region.  You will collaborate with counterparts here in the US and our Global Product Management counterparts in our Nanjing, China headquarters to create end user value through great products.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop a market-informed portfolio strategy and roadmap to create a strong linkage between our end users, brands, and products.
  • Promote our products to customers and the sales teams through direct interaction by communicating capabilities, solutions, and product roadmaps.
  • Create a market-leading user experience; be the voice of the End-User, collaborate with our UX and industrial design teams to identify and translate user needs and use cases into actionable user stories that drive our back-end development teams in producing new products.
  • Use direct user feedback and data analytics to drive continuous improvement of our existing products.
  • Collaborate with brand marketing, channel marketing and creative teams to support development of messaging and marketing collateral.

Job Requirements: 
  • Bachelor's degree preferred.
  • 5-10 years of experience in product management or similar roles.
  • Consumer goods experience, preferably in consumer durables.
  • Work experience in roles involving defining, validating, launching, and managing products.
  • Ability to travel up to 25% both domestically and to Asia.

What we value:
  • Relevant power tool or outdoor power equipment experience.
  • Experience working in an Agile development mindset, constantly developing and testing new hypotheses and a ‘fail fast’ mindset, ideally in a Product Owner capacity.
  • Ability to collaborate and drive consensus across teams in different countries/cultures.
  • Skilled in developing and maintaining relationships with key end users, customers and field sales.
  • Excellent planning, execution and project-management skills.
  • Versed in concept validation and market research methods.
  • Disciplined in new process creation and standardization of data and departmental outputs.

Work Environment
Chervon North America operates in a casual and fun environment. We offer a very competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, short/long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) and a competitive time off program.

We think Chervon is a great place to work!  Be part of our new future!  Better Tools.  Better World.
 
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