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Product Manager

Sauder Woodworking Co. · Archbold, OH · 1 mo ago
$75k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The description includes intro paragraph about company and role. Use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real content. We need to parse content: The posting includes: - Intro: "The Sauder Family of Companies...". That's about the company and role. Could be "About the role" or maybe "About the company". We'll use "About the role". - Responsibilities: The "Key Responsibilities" section with bullet points (though they are paragraphs). We'll extract each bullet as
  • . - Qualifications: There's "Qualifications" heading then "Essential Skills & Knowledge", "Education & Experience". We'll combine into Requirements/Qualifications? The instruction: Use headings for sections like Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to decide which sections to include. We have content for Responsibilities, Qualifications (Education & Experience), Skills (Essential Skills & Knowledge), Benefits, Pay. No explicit Schedule content (though hybrid arrangement mentioned). That could be Schedule? It says hybrid arrangement with agreed-upon portion of work time spent at office. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. Remove "Other duties may be assigned." maybe keep as part of responsibilities? It's minor; we can keep but not as separate heading. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details. We need to format as HTML fragment: use

    for each section heading, then content:

    for prose,

    • for lists. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading (not present). No Job ID. Let's extract sections: About the role: The introductory paragraph(s) before "Key Responsibilities". Let's capture: "The Sauder Family of Companies, Sauder Woodworking, Sauder Building Products, and Sauder Manufacturing, are a family-owned group of manufacturing businesses headquartered in Archbold, Ohio. We design, manufacture, and market furniture, cabinetry, closets, and specialized commercial furnishings that serve customers throughout North America. With a legacy spanning more than 90 years, we are united by a commitment to craftsmanship, innovation, customer service, and creating opportunities for our team members and communities. The Product Manager serves as the business owner for an assigned product line or portfolio, leading its strategy and performance throughout the lifecycle and remaining accountable for the roadmap, productivity, value, and consumer satisfaction. This role works closely with Business Unit leaders and cross-functional partners to drive profitable growth and continuous product improvement. The Product Manager maintains a deep understanding of consumer and customer needs, market trends, competitors, and how assigned products are manufactured or sourced. This role offers a hybrid arrangement, with an agreed-upon portion of work time spent at our office in Archbold, Ohio." That's the about. Responsibilities: Under "Key Responsibilities" there are several bullet-like paragraphs each starting with a bold heading? Actually they are like: "Product Business & Productivity Owns the overall health and productivity of the assigned product line or portfolio, including margin, cost, velocity, SKU productivity, inventory turns, complexity, quality, and lifecycle performance.Continuously identifies opportunities to improve product economics and ensures cross-functional action is taken until measurable results are achieved.Uses financial, operational, consumer, and market data to prioritize actions and measure results." Then "Product Strategy & Roadmap Management Owns and continuously manages the product roadmap as the primary planning tool for the assigned product line or portfolio.Integrates current product performance, lifecycle, consumer/customer needs, competitive position, product value, productivity, and future opportunities into a clear multi-year roadmap.Uses the roadmap to identify and prioritize where to invest, improve, extend, maintain, rationalize, or exit products.Maintains a forward-looking pipeline of product, assortment, customer, channel, and innovation opportunities aligned with Business Unit and enterprise strategy.Uses the roadmap to drive cross-functional priorities and Product Review Management (PRM) decisions." Then "Business Unit & Customer Alignment Partners with Business Unit leaders, who own the business unit, to align product-line strategy and priorities with customer, channel, growth, and financial objectives.Brings the product-line perspective to Business Unit decisions and works through tradeoffs between long-term product health and immediate customer or business needs.Partners with Marketing/VOC and Sales to translate consumer, customer, installer, competitive, and market insights into product priorities and actions.Maintains a strong understanding of competitors, market dynamics, customer assortments, and emerging trends and uses that knowledge to identify opportunities and risks." Then "Manufacturing, Global Sourcing, and Sourcing Productivity For domestic products, maintains hands-on knowledge of how products are made and works directly with Operations and Engineering on the shop floor to improve labor, process, quality, material utilization, cost, and productivity.For imported products, develops deep knowledge of our global partner factories, capabilities, processes, costs, quality, capacity, and lead times; works with Global Sourcing team and factories throughout development and ongoing product management.Actively drives sourcing and factory productivity, including cost reduction, quotation and pricing discussions, supplier/factory alternatives, and production shifts or consolidation when appropriate." Then "Cross-Functional Business Leadership Mobilizes Engineering, Operations, Global Sourcing, Purchasing, Sourcing, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Planning, Quality, and other functions to solve product-business problems and achieve required outcomes.Sets clear priorities and expected results, challenges assumptions, drives decisions, follows actions to completion, and escalates barriers when needed.Owns the product-business outcome while functional teams retain ownership of their technical expertise and execution.Leads cross-functional teams through influence and business accountability." Then "Product Development & Commercialization Develops and presents product business cases and product briefs that define the opportunity, consumer/customer need, value proposition, target economics, strategic fit, and expected business outcome.Defines the business need, product requirements, positioning, target economics, priority, and expected outcome for new product and product-improvement work.Develops pricing and product-economics recommendations with Business Unit leadership, Sales, and Finance to support revenue, margin, and value objectives.Partners with Project Management/NPD, Global Sourcing, and functional teams as appropriate to execute approved projects through commercialization while remaining the product-business decision owner.Owns successful product commercialization from a product-business perspective, ensuring the launched product meets the intended consumer/customer need, value proposition, economics, and business objectives.Remains accountable after launch for product performance, economics, consumer satisfaction, sourcing/manufacturing productivity, and lifecycle results." Then "Other duties may be assigned." We'll turn each of these into
    • items. Qualifications/Education & Experience: Under "Qualifications" heading there is "Essential Skills & Knowledge" and "Education & Experience". We'll split into Skills and Qualifications sections. Skills: "Essential Skills & Knowledge" bullet list: each sentence maybe separate? It's a paragraph with multiple sentences separated by periods. We'll break into list items each sentence. List: - Strategic and forward-thinking, with the ability to anticipate evolving consumer, customer, market, and product needs beyond today’s requests and assortment. - Naturally curious and committed to building knowledge of consumers, customers, competitors, products, markets, manufacturing, and sourcing. - Able to synthesize consumer, customer, competitive, market, and business insights into a clear product strategy and prioritized roadmap. - Sound judgment and comfort making recommendations, evaluating tradeoffs, and prioritizing opportunities with incomplete information. - Strong financial and analytical acumen, including revenue, margin, cost, pricing, inventory, SKU productivity, and business-case development. - Business ownership mindset with accountability for measurable product results and the communication, facilitation, and influencing skills to align stakeholders across functions and organizational levels. Education & Experience: "Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university is preferred.Minimum of 5-7 years related experience.Working knowledge of product development, Stage-Gate, and commercialization processes.Demonstrated experience developing and managing product, category, customer, or portfolio roadmaps across the full lifecycle, from opportunity identification and development through commercialization, continuous improvement, rationalization, and exit.Experience leading cross-functional teams, influencing decisions without direct authority. Minimal travel is required." We'll break into list items. Benefits: After Pay Summary paragraph: "We believe that all people are capable of great things. Because of this, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description. Sauder is a family company, so we believe in a healthy work-life balance for our employees. We want employees to know their time here is more than just a job--they can build a life-long career at Sauder. We have a culture of continuous improvement and internal advancement. We provide 3 weeks of vacation and a full benefit package beginning at 30 days. Other perks include 401(k), a company-funded health savings account, free counseling, furniture discounts, and tuition reimbursement." We need Benefits section: include vacation, benefit package, 401(k), HSA, free counseling, furniture discounts, tuition reimbursement. Also mention healthy work-life balance, culture of continuous improvement, internal advancement maybe as prose. Pay: "Pay Summary Expected offer is minimum $75,000. The actual salary will be based on factors such as location, relevant experience, and skills. The Max salary listed is not the top of the salary band." We'll include Pay section with that prose. Schedule: The hybrid arrangement mention: "This role offers a hybrid arrangement, with an agreed-upon portion of work time spent at our office in Archbold, Ohio." That's schedule info. We'll put in Schedule section. We must not include boilerplate like Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer etc. Remove that. Now produce HTML fragment. Structure:

      About the role

      ... (the intro paragraph)

      Responsibilities

      • ... each responsibility
      • ...

      Skills

      • ... each skill
      • ...

      Qualifications

      • ... each edu/exp item
      • ...

      Benefits

      ... benefits prose

      Pay

      ... pay prose

      Schedule

      ... schedule prose

      Make sure to preserve all details exactly as in text, but we can split sentences. Check for any duplicated lines: we should not repeat. Let's craft the About paragraph exactly as given (maybe combine sentences). Ensure no extra. About paragraph: We'll copy the text: "The Sauder Family of Companies, Sauder Woodworking, Sauder Building Products, and Sauder Manufacturing, are a family-owned group of manufacturing businesses headquartered in Archbold, Ohio. We design, manufacture, and market furniture, cabinetry, closets, and specialized commercial furnishings that serve customers throughout North America. With a legacy spanning more than 90 years, we are united by a commitment to craftsmanship, innovation, customer service, and creating opportunities for our team members and communities. The Product Manager serves as the business owner for an assigned product line or portfolio, leading its strategy and performance throughout the lifecycle and remaining accountable for the roadmap, productivity, value, and consumer satisfaction. This role works closely with Business Unit leaders and cross-functional partners to drive profitable growth and continuous product improvement. The Product Manager maintains a deep understanding of consumer and customer needs, market trends, competitors, and how assigned products are manufactured or sourced. This role offers a hybrid arrangement, with an agreed-upon portion of work time spent at our office in Archbold, Ohio." Now Responsibilities list items: need to keep the text exactly as in each bullet but we may need to add periods where missing. We'll copy each heading+description as a single string. Let's extract each: 1. "Product Business & Productivity Owns the overall health and productivity of the assigned product line or

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