POOLCORP
Overview
Location: Remote within the U.S. Pay: $75,000 - $80,000 plus annual bonus opportunities, company vehicle, benefits, and more. Join POOLCORP, the world's leading distributor of outdoor living products. With over 445 Sales Centers in 12 countries and a team with more than 6,000 employees, POOLCORP is committed to meeting the needs of its customers with integrity, trust, diversity, and innovation. The company emphasizes a family-oriented, hometown culture and strong, stable, and growing business. POOLCORP includes SCP Distributors, SCP Distributors International, Superior Pool Products, National Pool Trends, Pinch A Penny, and Horizon Distributors. POOLCORP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a drug-free company. Job title: Above Ground Pool Product Manager at POOLCORP
Job Summary
The Above Ground Pool Product Manager is responsible for developing and executing strategic plans for product categories, managing vendor relationships, and driving innovation to achieve growth and profitability. This role oversees the product development lifecycle, including market analysis, pricing strategies, promotional plans, training programs, and new product launches. The position requires cross-functional collaboration with various departments to ensure alignment with business objectives, while serving as the primary resource for product expertise and industry insights.
Responsibilities
Develops and leads the strategic plan for the category and manages the vendor and product portfolio. Evaluates strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and monitors market intelligence and share analysis. Creates and manages sample and display programs. Acts as the go-to resource for product and programs, provides field and product guidance. Manages customer, employee, and vendor conflict resolution. Serves as the voice of the customer and liaison to internal teams and the industry. Acts as the visionary for the category, manages new product introductions, obsolescence inventory management, and collaborates with marketing and other internal departments to ensure vision, strategy, and timeline alignment. Ensures vendor and internal initiatives are aligned, identifies process and product gaps, creates solutions, and develops best practices. Maintains sales tools, data management, forecasting, and KPIs. Creates training content for internal and customer use; coordinates factory training events, dealer conferences, and trade shows. Analyzes consumer needs and current market trends to identify new product opportunities and prioritizes according to business strategy. Creates product strategy documents describing business cases, market requirements, pricing and positioning, and marketing strategy. Assesses current competitor private label offerings and activity to identify opportunities for differentiation and disruption. Drives product launches by partnering with Vendors, Sales, Marketing, Sourcing, Pricing, and other teams to meet category growth objectives. Builds relationships with vendors to develop and execute promotional plans and product launches. Serves as the subject matter expert for products, solutions, and suppliers, providing training and market intelligence to the field to grow revenue, profitability, and market share. Provides direction to Sourcing on price targets, discounts, costs, and other profit components to maximize category profitability while growing share. Contributes to annual management strategy discussions focused on sales execution and actions to grow category share, gross profit, and gross margin %. Provides leadership and guidance to help the organization achieve sales objectives by working with field leadership. Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business. 5 years of experience in product development and management. Expertise with successful product launches preferred. Significant experience in a dynamic product management role in consumer or industrial products. Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle including innovation assessment, competitive analysis, ROI, pricing, product launch, and promotional plans. Highly effective cross-functional team management. Previous experience delivering finely tuned product marketing strategies. Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills. Proficiency with MS Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). A valid driver’s license with a satisfactory driving record (no more than 2 violations in 3 years). Must be 21 years of age or older to apply.
Benefits and Additional Information
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug coverage with Flexible Spending Accounts and Wellness Programs 401(k) with generous company match 13 days of paid time off (PTO) and 8 paid holidays (PTO grows with tenure) 100% employer-paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance Paid Parental Leave Fully Funded Tuition/Education Programs Bonus programs including Employee Recognition and Referrals, Summer Madness, and Annual Performance Employee Stock Purchase Plan Employee Discounts and more
All offers to external candidates are contingent upon successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background verification. This position is considered safety-sensitive and may involve tasks that affect the safety and health of the employee or others. Relocation or cost of living adjustments may be available. The application window is posted for 30 days and will remain open until filled.
POOLCORP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and inclusion and hire solely on qualifications for the job. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability. This commitment is critical to our success as a global company.
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Location: Remote within the U.S. Pay: $75,000 - $80,000 plus annual bonus opportunities, company vehicle, benefits, and more. Join POOLCORP, the world's leading distributor of outdoor living products. With over 445 Sales Centers in 12 countries and a team with more than 6,000 employees, POOLCORP is committed to meeting the needs of its customers with integrity, trust, diversity, and innovation. The company emphasizes a family-oriented, hometown culture and strong, stable, and growing business. POOLCORP includes SCP Distributors, SCP Distributors International, Superior Pool Products, National Pool Trends, Pinch A Penny, and Horizon Distributors. POOLCORP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a drug-free company. Job title: Above Ground Pool Product Manager at POOLCORP
Job Summary
The Above Ground Pool Product Manager is responsible for developing and executing strategic plans for product categories, managing vendor relationships, and driving innovation to achieve growth and profitability. This role oversees the product development lifecycle, including market analysis, pricing strategies, promotional plans, training programs, and new product launches. The position requires cross-functional collaboration with various departments to ensure alignment with business objectives, while serving as the primary resource for product expertise and industry insights.
Responsibilities
Develops and leads the strategic plan for the category and manages the vendor and product portfolio. Evaluates strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and monitors market intelligence and share analysis. Creates and manages sample and display programs. Acts as the go-to resource for product and programs, provides field and product guidance. Manages customer, employee, and vendor conflict resolution. Serves as the voice of the customer and liaison to internal teams and the industry. Acts as the visionary for the category, manages new product introductions, obsolescence inventory management, and collaborates with marketing and other internal departments to ensure vision, strategy, and timeline alignment. Ensures vendor and internal initiatives are aligned, identifies process and product gaps, creates solutions, and develops best practices. Maintains sales tools, data management, forecasting, and KPIs. Creates training content for internal and customer use; coordinates factory training events, dealer conferences, and trade shows. Analyzes consumer needs and current market trends to identify new product opportunities and prioritizes according to business strategy. Creates product strategy documents describing business cases, market requirements, pricing and positioning, and marketing strategy. Assesses current competitor private label offerings and activity to identify opportunities for differentiation and disruption. Drives product launches by partnering with Vendors, Sales, Marketing, Sourcing, Pricing, and other teams to meet category growth objectives. Builds relationships with vendors to develop and execute promotional plans and product launches. Serves as the subject matter expert for products, solutions, and suppliers, providing training and market intelligence to the field to grow revenue, profitability, and market share. Provides direction to Sourcing on price targets, discounts, costs, and other profit components to maximize category profitability while growing share. Contributes to annual management strategy discussions focused on sales execution and actions to grow category share, gross profit, and gross margin %. Provides leadership and guidance to help the organization achieve sales objectives by working with field leadership. Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business. 5 years of experience in product development and management. Expertise with successful product launches preferred. Significant experience in a dynamic product management role in consumer or industrial products. Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle including innovation assessment, competitive analysis, ROI, pricing, product launch, and promotional plans. Highly effective cross-functional team management. Previous experience delivering finely tuned product marketing strategies. Exceptional writing and editing skills combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills. Proficiency with MS Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). A valid driver’s license with a satisfactory driving record (no more than 2 violations in 3 years). Must be 21 years of age or older to apply.
Benefits and Additional Information
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug coverage with Flexible Spending Accounts and Wellness Programs 401(k) with generous company match 13 days of paid time off (PTO) and 8 paid holidays (PTO grows with tenure) 100% employer-paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance Paid Parental Leave Fully Funded Tuition/Education Programs Bonus programs including Employee Recognition and Referrals, Summer Madness, and Annual Performance Employee Stock Purchase Plan Employee Discounts and more
All offers to external candidates are contingent upon successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background verification. This position is considered safety-sensitive and may involve tasks that affect the safety and health of the employee or others. Relocation or cost of living adjustments may be available. The application window is posted for 30 days and will remain open until filled.
POOLCORP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and inclusion and hire solely on qualifications for the job. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability. This commitment is critical to our success as a global company.
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