Cornerstone Building Brands | Employer reference: REF12664M
Director of Product Management and Pricing Brantford, ON, CA / Remote
Posted on October 18, 2024
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Position Overview: The Director of Product and Pricing reports to the VP of Growth Excellence and leads team efforts to continuously develop and drive winning product portfolio and pricing strategies across the business unit and all its product lines. This position has functional leadership for all brands and products in the Canadian Business Unit. It partners with key functional leaders across Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Technology, and Finance, and manages a team of Product and Pricing managers.
Responsibilities: Accountable for the definition and execution of the product strategies and roadmaps supporting long term profitable above market growth, delivering cohesive and unique product solutions to current and future customers.
Oversee the product management and pricing functions who are responsible for the overall product lifecycle, product margin level profitability, pricing systems and policies across all product lines.
Develop a strong product management culture including best-in-class and portfolio management practices,
strong integration of product within all aspects of the business planning,
continuous focus on quality, fit-for-use and sustainability of the product lines.
Lead by influence and champion cross-functional collaboration that enables stronger alignment, drives faster decision making and execution.
Develop a high performing team of product management and pricing professionals through continuous people and capability development.
Partner with R&D and Engineering teams to manage product development stage gate processes.
Collaborate with leaders from sales, marketing, strategy, supply chain and operations and finance to uncover customer growth opportunities and develop implementation roadmaps in a matrix organization.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or advanced degree in appropriate discipline preferred.
Minimum of 10 years of experience and demonstrated track record of product management, new product development and commercialization, product line rationalization, portfolio/category strategies.
Experience in building products industry strongly preferred.
Team leadership and coaching experience required.
Demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
Ability to differentially manage efforts in complex, competitive, fast moving environment and guide teams through ambiguity.
Experience in business case modeling.
Strong business and financial acumen.
High strategic and critical thinking ability.
Strong coaching skills.
Strong data analytical and planning skills. Able to generate data-driven insights that combine quantitative and qualitative methods into actionable strategies and plans.
Problem solving orientation required.
Comfort with making important recommendations.
Growth oriented and customer centric approach.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills: ability to provide clear and concise insights and recommendations to senior leadership, and also articulate high level strategies into actionable team goals.
Computer, software, and MS Office skills necessary to support the role.
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