Product Manager, Business Innovation
Spectrum Brands, Inc · Middleton, WI · Yesterday
MarketingFull-time
Job Summary
The Product Manager, Business Innovation will play a central role in the global growth for one of Spectrum Brand’s home brands, helping transform it to serve today’s consumers in the health and wellness space. You are responsible for the brand’s global product portfolio, including existing products and the new product roadmap.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Optimizing existing products to improve commercial performance, cost, and margin
- Refreshing products to deliver new brand position
- Delivering new product innovation that drives long-term growth
- Expanding the brand through consumer solutions beyond appliances
- Using voice-of-consumer inputs, research, category and competitive trends, commercial data, and digital analytics to identify product and assortment opportunities and improve portfolio performance
- Leading product initiatives from definition and business-case development through cross-functional team alignment, product development, creation of the global product launch blueprint for the regional teams to execute against, and post-launch performance tracking and optimization
- Partnering with Brand, Creative, Digital Marketing, DTC, Regional Marketing, and Sales to bring product initiatives to market, evaluate in-market performance, and drive ongoing improvements across digital and retail channels
- Tracking progress against growth goals, aligning cross-functional partners around shared outcomes, and using performance data and new learning to adjust priorities, plans, resources, or investment as needed
- Using AI deliberately to improve speed and quality of work and build what works into repeatable processes that can be transferred to broader business
Education and Experience Profile
- 6+ years of experience in product management, innovation, brand growth, product development, or related consumer-product role
- Experience with end-to-end ownership of a product portfolio, including driving a new product roadmap and in-market performance evaluation
- Experience developing global product launches including the positioning, pricing, channel strategy, and launch plans that regional teams can execute
- Experience with digital commerce including an understanding of how DTC, digital shelf, content, and social commerce inform product decisions
- Experience using consumer insights, commercial data, and performance signals to identify opportunities, make portfolio decisions, and evaluate results
- A track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering results
Required Skills
- MBA or equivalent commercial, product management, or innovation experience
- Experience in the health and wellness consumer space
- Experience in an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial environment
- Experience working in cross-functional product environments that emphasize shared ownership, iterative learning, and continuous improvement rather than sequential functional handoffs
- Hands-on experience with AI tools beyond basic chatbot use, such as applying AI within workflows or tools to produce key deliverables
- Experience managing products across multiple countries and working with global teams
- A strong collaborator. You build good working relationships, create clarity, and drive action with cross-functional team members
- Digitally and commercially savvy. You know how product, brand, content, digital commerce, and retail execution work together to drive growth
- A compelling storyteller. You bring consumer needs, product ideas, and the brand promise to life in a clear and persuasive way
- Direct and constructive. You are an effective communicator and make recommendations that strengthen the team and outcome
- Curious and adaptable. You seek out expertise, learn quickly, and act