Product Manager

Alliance Laundry Systems, LLC is ideally located in a beautiful, recreationally rich, and family friendly environment that offers a wealth of home purchase options that allow you to have a much better work/life balance than you may have today. Our office environment is team-based and our commercial laundry is recession resistant. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package to include 6% 401(k) Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Company-Paid Dental, Company-Paid Disability, and much more. Alliance Laundry Systems LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.

Reporting to the Director of Marketing, the Product Manager is responsible for the management of assigned product lines including the development of product marketing plans, managing product lifecycles, accountability for product performance and profitability, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements to define product roadmaps, competitive analysis, and to work closely with Engineering, Sales, and Marketing departments to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Primary duties:
    • Establishes both long and short-term objectives and strategies for assigned product lines.
    • Monitor the overall performance of assigned product lines (volume, revenue, margin, inventory, SKU count, distribution and pricing) to ensure overall sales and profitability objectives are met.
    • Make changes to the product lines as needed via rationalization and/or extensions. Manage the process from concept to reality, including sales and margin analysis, competitive and overall market analysis, product line extension and discontinuation recommendations, plan presentation to management teams and execution of approved changes. The execution requires working closely with various departments:
      • Manufacturing—Ensure product specifications are established and product is produced within timeframe indicated.
      • Accounting—Acquire costing information to ensure product is priced correctly to generate appropriate sales and profitability.
      • Marketing—Contribute to annual marketing and communications plans and programs to promote assigned product lines.
    • Develop new products within assigned product lines. Conduct research to determine product viability. Work with Sales to validate pricing potential. Establish business goals and volume expectations for new products
    • Conduct competitive benchmarking for assigned product lines by gathering competitive intelligence and monitoring competitive actions.
    • Monitor activities of external influencers such as legislation, consumer groups, vendor innovations, technological advances, etc. which affect product design and/or use.
    • Communicate relevant product information to Sales, Engineering, and Marketing as needed. This includes new products and product extension and discontinuation communications.

Position Qualifications:

  1. Knowledge/Experience:
    • Minimum 4-6 years product management and new product development experience, preferably in laundry, appliance or other manufactured goods market segment.
    • Previous supervisory or coaching experience strongly preferred.
  2. Skills and Abilities:
    • Effectively establish, communicate and deliver product plans and strategies.
    • Possess strong project management abilities
    • Ability to effectively interact with executive management
    • Strong communication and time management skills
  3. Education:
    • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Management or related field required.
    • MBA strongly preferred.
  4. Physical Requirements:
    • Position involves sitting long periods, standing, manual dexterity, stooping, bending and minimal lifting.

Alliance Laundry Systems offers a competitive salary and benefits package to include 6% 401(k) Match, Company-Paid Dental, Company-Paid Disability, and much more. Please send your resume along with salary requirements to:

Email: applyALS@alliancels.com (please include position applying for in subject line)

Mail To:
Alliance Laundry Systems LLC
Attn: HR Department
Shepard Street, PO Box 990
Ripon, WI 54971

Alliance Laundry Systems LLC is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer

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