Product Manager at Brenntag France developing specialty polymers portfolio. Negotiating supplier agreements and providing added value solutions to clients in France and Benelux.
About the role
- Drives product development and long-term strategy for retirement solutions at Transamerica. Collaborates with sales, analytics teams, and stakeholders to innovate and enhance products across diverse markets.
Responsibilities
- Analyze market trends and competitive landscape to discern product opportunities and translate market conditions into valid value positions.
- Assist lower level staff as needed.
- Research potential market opportunities; build the business case for product innovations by gathering distribution and consumer feedback, reviewing industry sales trends, and understanding demographic shifts/consumer preferences.
- Guide lower level staff as needed.
- Define product features, competitiveness, profitability, sales goals and launch date.
- Drive collaboration across all functional areas as needed.
- Conduct feasibility studies, research and development (R&D), and participate in labs to evaluate ideas.
- Drive collaboration with sales and margin analytics team and other business groups to conduct hypothesis testing and opportunity sizing; develop capabilities based assessments (CBA) and execution approach.
- Partner with distributors, Marketing, Finance, IT and other key stakeholders to recommend product features, competitiveness, profitability, sales goals and launch dates.
- Negotiate needs and bring consensus/closure to issues, and facilitate decisions on new business portfolio issues.
- Ensure customer centric product ideas are efficiently sourced and prioritized.
- Work with margin analytics, marketing, sales and operations teams to build a strong pipeline for future product enhancements.
- Develop and deliver presentations to communicate research outcomes; provide R&D results to senior management and peers to highlight strategic recommendations for new products and enhancements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a business related field or equivalent experience.
- Four years of product development experience in the retirement industry.
- In-depth knowledge of retirement features.
- In-depth knowledge of retirement and marketing techniques.
- Understanding of profitability metrics.
- Analytical skills and attention to detail to perform market analysis, customer research, opportunity sizing, profitability assessments, and risk/legal/compliance assessments.
- Communication and interpersonal skills to educate audience and advocate recommendations with team members and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Decision making skills to create scope and content for consumer market research, and use insights to develop product design and features.
- Strategic thinker and facilitation skills.
- Presentation skills to provide research data and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Coaching skills to assist team members.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
Benefits
- Competitive Pay
- Bonus for Eligible Employees
- Benefits Package
- Pension Plan
- 401k Match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Disability Insurance
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Employee Discounts
- Career Training & Development Opportunities
- Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits
- Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
- Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
- Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
- Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.
- Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Back-Up Care Program
- PTO for Volunteer Hours
- Employee Matching Gifts Program
- Employee Resource Groups
- Inclusion and Diversity Programs
- Employee Recognition Program
- Referral Bonus Programs
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