Product Marketing Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, and Consumer Insights, through multiple concurrent product development initiatives utilizing a structured stage-gate process.
• Develop and execute a multi-year category and innovation roadmap grounded in consumer insights, market trends, channel dynamics, customer needs, and competitive opportunities.
• Own the category P&L ensuring revenue and margin metrics are achieved.
• Identify, evaluate, and champion new business opportunities, product adjacencies, and emerging category segments that expand Pfister's participation beyond core Bath and Kitchen categories.
• Own new product business cases, including market opportunity assessment, customer value proposition, financial modeling, volume forecasts, investment requirements, and success metrics.
• Author and manage NPI scope documents, including product requirements, feature definitions, financial assumptions, project objectives, launch criteria, timelines, and key performance indicators.
• Partner with Engineering and Sourcing to ensure products are developed to meet consumer needs, quality expectations, target cost objectives, and commercialization requirements.
• Attend global supplier, factory, customer, and market visits as required to develop product insights and support innovation initiatives; domestic and international travel required periodically.
• Present category strategies, innovation roadmaps, business cases, and new product concepts to senior leadership, cross-functional stakeholders, and key retail, wholesale, and trade partners.
• Own overall category performance, including revenue growth, gross margin, pricing strategy, portfolio mix, inventory productivity, and profitability across assigned product categories.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years of progressive experience in Product Marketing, Product Management, Category Management, Consumer Insights, or related commercial functions, with a demonstrated track record of delivering business results.
• Experience in decorative plumbing, home improvement, building products, consumer durables, or adjacent categories strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success leveraging market research, consumer insights, and competitive intelligence to influence product strategy, portfolio decisions, and commercial outcomes.
• Experience managing category, product line, or portfolio performance, including pricing, profitability, business case development, and lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical, financial, and problem-solving skills with experience utilizing market, POS, syndicated, and internal business data to support decision-making.
• - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite — Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• - Advanced presentation skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership and large external audiences
• - Strong project management skills; ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives
• - Advanced P&L and budget management knowledge

Preferred

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including sick and vacation days
• 12 paid holidays
• Job-protected leave benefits in accordance with applicable law
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Supplemental critical illness, hospital, accident, and indemnity available for purchase
• Health and flexible savings accounts subject to eligibility requirements
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions and matching subject to plan eligibility requirements