New Product Development & Marketing Manager – Floorcare, Tools & Consumer Products

Responsibilities

• Drive communication, accountability and follow-up to ensure projects remain on track and milestones are achieved.
• Lead project meetings and provide clear updates on timing, risks, delays and action plans.
• Maintain project schedules, documentation, status reporting and launch readiness tracking.
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis and Voice of Customer (VOC) activities to identify project opportunities.
• Develop product specifications, positioning, cost targets and business cases for new products.
• Create and manage competitive benchmarking, comp shops and product comparisons.
• Work with domestic and international suppliers and factories to support development, sourcing, testing and launch readiness.
• Partner with strong sourcing and operations teams to support cost reduction, margin improvement and supply chain efficiency initiatives.
• Coordinate product samples, approvals, artwork reviews, packaging updates and engineering change requests.
• Ensure alignment between sales, marketing, operations and engineering throughout the development process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in Product Management, New Development or Project management within consumer products, tools, floorcare, appliances or related industries.
• Strong experience managing products through full development and commercialization cycles.
• Proven ability to drive projects from concept through launch with measurable results.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive accountability across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and business acumen with experience using data to drive decisions.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a high sense of urgency and ownership.
• Experience improving SOP’s, workflows and operational processes preferred.

Preferred

• Big Box retail experience preferred.

Benefits

• Great Star Tools offers a range of benefits to meet our employees’ needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include, but are not limited to, our Core benefits: comprehensive healthcare, dental and vision coverage.
• We offer ancillary benefits, such as Life/AD&D Insurance, Salary Continuation (dependent on location), or Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Voluntary benefits (i.e. Critical Illness, etc.), Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
• We also offer a 401(k) Safe Harbor Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Match.
• Vacation/Sick/Personal/Holiday time off is available.
• Additional details about these benefits will be provided during the hiring process.