Senior Product Manager

Why join us?

Geiger furnishes the modern office with beautiful solutions for private offices, conference rooms, collaborative spaces, and more. Geiger designs play an important role in creating environments where people want to be-spaces that stimulate creative and analytical thinking, strengthen organizational culture, and communicate trust to clients and visitors.

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

Serves as product champion for the Geiger | DatesWeiser product lines by developing, implementing, and managing product management and improvement activities to provide optimum sales and profits. Accountable for managing the Geiger | DatesWeiser product lines to support all of the corporate strategies including the development of cross-platform work process elements, components, and collections. Serves as a critical leader within product marketing.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Develops, drives, and implements individual, multiple, or more critical Geiger | DatesWeiser product plans and strategy.

• Directs ongoing analyses and leads the pricing and discounting strategy for Geiger | DatesWeiser products to provide greatest financial performance.

• Provides category feedback to innovation and kitchen development teams and support and integrate the launch plans. Support and integrate launch plans as appropriate.

• Provides direction, make recommendations, and make decisions in support of data management system functionality and usage.

• Supports strategic sales opportunities and provide product updates to sales.

• Defines analytical tools necessary to provide insight necessary for decision making for a group of products.

• Defines product sales support and training requirements to support several products within a category.

• Leads presentations, both internally and externally, for critical product training and other various presentation opportunities.

• Owns the effort to resolve quality issues, evaluate and drive changes that highly affect P&L.

• Responsible for the financial health of the Geiger | DatesWeiser product line including accountability for P&L.

• Manages the product life cycle of Geiger | DatesWeiser product lines from introduction, through growth and maturity, to decline and discontinuation. Provides input on product simplification/discontinuation for product lines or groups of products.

• Acts as a mentor to help develop other Product colleagues. Provide direction and priority setting in absence of Work Team Leader and act as WTL for the internship program.

• Identify and build business case for product extensions and/or new platforms. Ability to serve as Core Team member representing the Geiger | DatesWeiser product category.

• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

Additional Essential Functions

Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree required. Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or Interior Design preferred.

• Master's Degree preferred.

• Excellent understanding of product management best practices and processes, typically gained through 6-8+ years of experience in product management/product marketing or related experience.

• 3+ years of project management, leadership, or management experience.

• Contract furniture of capital goods and/or consumer merchant experience preferred.

Skills and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of the customer and sales process with demonstrated customer and field interaction.

• Full understanding of operations, production, supply management, full value stream.

• Applies understanding of Herman Miller's channels, including dealer and/or retail, and understanding their main functions (sales, design, and operations) to develop product strategies for one or more products.

• Demonstrated high level of written, verbal and interpersonal skills to communicate information, ideas, procedures and processes in a logical sequence; at a level appropriate to the audience and resulting in effective working relationships.

• Demonstrated entrepreneurial, risk-taking, and creative design orientation.

• Ability to handle multiple concurrent responsibilities and work in a constantly changing environment. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple major projects and priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines.

• Outstanding leadership skills with proven creative problem-solving skills and the ability to lead through influence and relationship building within all areas of the company.

• Proven mentoring, people development, and leadership skills, including experience leading cross functional development teams.

• Prior product platform team and market research experience.

• Demonstrated analytical and project management skills. Ability to develop project plans and manage activities for a large cross functional project. Ability to get alignment, secure resources, and manage activities of project.

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with business, financial, manufacturing, and purchasing acumen and integrate this knowledge into decision making to optimize the return for one or more products.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation and communication software and tools currently being used in the Herman Miller office environment.

• Willingness to travel 20% of the time.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.

Who We Hire?

Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Geiger is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We're committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at careers_help@millerknoll.com.