Steelcase Looking for Product Manager – Seating at Grand Rapids, MI Full Time

We are hiring a Product Manager on the Steelcase Seating Marketing team to develop and manage a strategic, well-rounded portfolio of high-performance work chairs. You will use your deep product knowledge and strong relationships to lead product development and launch initiatives to support growth within Steelcase dealer-led contract and authorized retailers/consumer business.

What you will be doing:

Your objective is to build and reinforce the portfolio value proposition with training, audience specific messaging, and compelling arguments to improve sales touchpoints. You are comfortable with not only project management and marketing initiatives, but also strategic sales support. Other typical day-to-day tasks may include:

• Craft product line or portfolio strategies and execution, considering a holistic view of the portfolio across our company

• Take ownership of and manage assigned product lines to achieve growth or profitability targets

• Analyze market trends, user and client needs, competitors, sales and financial data for decision making

• Represent your products by creating and leading sales presentations and trainings for customers, dealers, and design partners

• Serve as a consultant and subject matter expert in support of strategic sales opportunities

Who you are:

You are intensely driven to discover new ways of connecting with customers (internal and external). You are skilled at project management, using your time wisely, and efficiently completing tasks while keeping various others moving. Your agility allows you to respond quickly to new situations and you have the tools /experience to do so.

You can relate and empathize with both the business customer and internal team members. By putting yourself in others’ shoes, you drive results, build productive cross-functional teams, and keep partners motivated.

You like to conduct training and customer presentations. You are always looking for ways to simplify messaging and engage the specific audience – motivating them to act on the information provided.

You work to create clarity and controlled conversations. Your experience includes developing creative and/or marketing briefs, compelling opportunity statements, key performance indicators + return on investment, category/corporate prioritization, and cross-functional resource planning.

You work collaboratively across our team and the company to leverage diversity of thought and experiences, and are comfortable engaging and influencing people at all levels of the organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a business-related field is desired

• Minimum 5 to 10 years of marketing or product management experience is preferred

• Experience working within the contract furniture industry or with distribution partners is highly preferred

Your future team:

While you are part of a fast-paced large global team, your area of responsibility is within the Americas. The cross-functional global team has diverse backgrounds in sales, digital marketing, retail merchandising, ecommerce, operations, product development, and project management. It combines the excitement of working on the dealer-led contract side of the business with the fast-growing consumer business. This role falls within our Steelcase brand side of the business.

Why People Choose to Work with Us:

At Steelcase, we put people at the center of everything we do. We understand the role of work and believe that it can bring meaning and purpose to the lives of our customers and our employees. We prioritize supporting our employees both in and out of work, in all aspects of their lives. When we bring our talents together, we make a positive lasting impact through our work and communities.

Who We Are:

Organizations around the world trust Steelcase to help them create places that help people work better, be inspired, and accomplish more.

We design, manufacture, and partner with other leading organizations to provide architecture, furniture, and technology solutions- accessible through a network of channels, including over 800 Steelcase dealer locations. Steelcase is a global, industry-leading, publicly-traded company with fiscal year 2021 revenue of $2.6 billion.

What Matters to Us:

More than qualifications, we’re looking for talent and potential. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we’re always looking to improve our global community. We value applicants who are comfortable interacting with people different from themselves, building mutual respect and positive relationships. We invite people from all backgrounds and genders to apply. If we can make the application process easier through accommodation, please email us at myhr@steelcase.com.

Steelcase provides employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, genetic information, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or veteran status and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. We are proud to be recognized for our inclusive workforce by the Corporate Equality Index for the past nine years.

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