Purpose:
The Product Manager - Innovation will assist with the development and execution of DFC's innovation strategy, focusing on enabling growth through insights-driven product solutions. At its heart, this role is about understanding consumer needs, market trends, and channel dynamics to shape the future of our brand and product portfolio. It will also be a catalyst for change that will help drive excitement for our brands and products, both internally and externally.
Key Responsibilities:
Evaluate and De-Risk Concepts that Advance DFC's Product Leadership
Refine market potential forecast to the appropriate degree of fidelity leveraging fast paced learning loops, multiple data points, and suitable research methodologies.
Use the above to determine and prioritize features, functions, benefits, and claims.
Work with your cross-functional team to determine commercialization strategies that align with DFC's key customer segments and provide an outline for success to the core business.
Eliminate concepts from the pipeline when commercial value is not found.
Consumer Insights & Market Intelligence
Work with DFC's insights team to identify and prioritize emerging consumer behaviors, lifestyle trends, and unmet needs.
Translate insights into actionable innovation strategies, on the portfolio and project level.
Spark Change and Drive Excitement
Be a change agent within the organization, pushing DFC's core business beyond what is comfortable to help drive incremental growth
Help foster a culture of creativity, agility, and consumer-centric thinking across the organization.
Metrics:
Throughput
Category/project delivery & success metrics (long term/short term, prioritized according to DFC's strategic plans)
Driving efficiency via understanding of key stakeholder needs
Effectiveness of communication via internal feedback
Education and Experience:
EEO statement:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Company: Delta Faucet Company
Full time
Hiring Range: $88,700.00 - $139,260.00 USD
Actual compensation may vary based on various factors including experience, education, geographic location, and/or skills.
Delta Faucet Company (the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer and we strive to employ the most qualified individuals for every position. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company's policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all people involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.
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At Delta® Faucet, we’re dedicated to transforming the way people experience water. You’ll find a smart, inventive spirit to our products. Our innovative faucets with Touch2O® technology turn on and off with just a touch, which makes life easier when hands are messy. Then there’s our H2Okinetic® shower technology that gives you the feeling of more water without using more. And now, there’s our ingenuous new Temp2O shower technology – with a water-powered LED display that shows you the water temperature before you get in. In every product we make, it’s easy to see what Delta® can do.
A worldwide leader in faucets, toilets, bathing and related accessories, Delta Faucet is proud to be a division of Masco Corporation. Delta Faucet Company is the largest manufacturer of residential and commercial faucets and related accessories in the United States. Our brands include Delta®, Brizo™, Delta Commercial and Peerless®, all offering a combination of stylish looks and unmatched quality at a variety of price points.
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Delta Faucet was founded in 1954, and has manufacturing facilities in Greensburg, Indiana; Jackson, Tennessee; Morgantown, Kentucky; Panyu, China; and Ontario, Canada. Our global expansion strategy is supported by sales offices in New Delhi, India; São Paulo, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; Dubai, UAE; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Delta Faucet appreciates the competitive advantage of our people. We look for those unique individuals who share our desire to innovate and have a passion for our customers. For more information about Delta Faucet and all of our brands, please visit our company website at www.deltafaucetcompany.com.
Delta Faucet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, veteran status, disability status, genetic information or any other protected category.