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Product Manager

W. L. Gore & Associates Elkton, MD

Elkton, MD

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$125k - $165k/yr Full time Product Management Product Manager Product Strategy

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Job Description

Own strategy and execution for the ELIXIR Strings portfolio, translating customer needs into differentiated products while driving value across the global business.

Responsibilities

Drive revenue and profit for the ELIXIR Strings portfolio by shaping cross-functional decisions that balance long-term profitability with near-term market needs.
Build and execute a product strategy by leading new product ideas and concepts, creating and maintaining Product Concept Worksheets (PCWs), and integrating cross-functional input during development.
Manage the product portfolio across the full product lifecycle, including retiring underperforming SKUs to make room for new offerings.
Develop business cases for new product ideas by modeling volumes, pricing, COGS, and SG&A against targets.
Guide tradeoffs across product development workstreams with responsibility for timeline, scope, and cost.
Ensure fitness-for-use (FFU) by defining performance criteria and confirming each product meets its promised value.
Partner with Compliance Taskforce teams on global regulations and labeling for product programs.
Apply GBS principles including problem solving, lean daily management, and kaizen to revenue attainment, pricing strategy, and new product development.
Conduct regular customer and consumer visits using Voice of Customer tools to gather, synthesize, and validate global insights for product and business model innovation.
Own global pricing strategy and value positioning for ELIXIR Strings to grow Enterprise Value, support sales execution, and increase market share.
Partner with Marketing to create, validate, and approve product claims aligned to actual performance.
Maximize profitability by identifying opportunities across the value chain and supporting key investment decisions through the lifecycle.
Contribute heavily to ELIXIR strategy development, share market insights that support top- and bottom-line growth, and own related action plans within Strategy Deployment initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Minimum 3 years experience as a Product Manager, or minimum 7 years in a combination of technical and market-facing roles with global scope and support for a consumer brand.
Experience evaluating product performance and validating product claims using defined performance criteria, test data, or customer feedback.
Ability to influence decisions without formal authority, including leading cross-functional discussions, maintaining an inclusive environment, and demonstrating understanding of equitable practices.
Experience gathering end-user needs and converting them into clear product requirements and product concepts, including presenting concepts to cross-functional teams for review and alignment.
Financial acumen, including interpreting P&L data and influencing decisions that impact profitability; experience owning product or portfolio-level profitability.
Proven experience developing or executing value-based pricing strategies across regions or sales channels, including pricing discussions with distributors, retailers, or global customers.
Experience developing product strategy using market insights, competitive understanding, and voice-of-customer data.
Track record driving multiple complex priorities and prioritizing what matters most for product and business outcomes.
Experience applying Lean Principles in manufacturing and business process settings.
Ability to travel up to 30% (domestic and international) for customer meetings, end-user engagement, and industry events.

Benefits

Medical, Dental and Vision benefits effective on Day 1 of employment as part of a comprehensive total rewards package.
Variable pay program each fiscal year for roles above $150k, based on defined business performance metrics.
Associate Stock Ownership Plan in each country.
Potential opportunities for profit-sharing.

Desired Qualifications

Experience or knowledge of the music industry and competitive products.
Experience as a musician playing fretted stringed instruments.
Prior experience implementing lean business concepts.

Pay

$125,000 - $165,000 per year.
Roles above $150k are eligible for the variable pay program each fiscal year, based on defined business performance metrics.
Offer range factors may include education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

What We Offer

Equal opportunity employer.
Drug-free workplace; employment contingent upon successful completion of drug and background screening.
Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is generally not provided unless noted in the position description.

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