TOPS Office ProductsProduct Manager
Jan. 2014 - May. 2017Greater St. Louis AreaTOPS Products
Product Manager – St. Louis, MO • Manage new and existing product life cycles from strategic planning to tactical activities.
• Develop and document new and existing product specifications.
• Work closely with engineering, management, and production personnel to maintain integrity of products.
• Communicate with customers to determine scope of projects, changes to products, complaints or product defects. • Maintain a close relationship with production facilities to ensure products are being produced to true specifications.
• Improve products or processes through new materials or processes. • Provide the sales team with the necessary technical expertise to enable them to sell the product, including printed and electronic promotional material, product training, and sales data.
• Visit stores for market research and competitive frame. • Provide information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests.
• Bring new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; create return-on-investment analyses; establish time schedules with engineering and manufacturing.
• Determine product pricing through market research data, production costs, and customer volume.
• Work closely with creative team to create marketing materials, packaging designs, new-product designs, and web content.