Job Responsibility:
* Responsible for the management of multiple aspects of the product creation process.
* Influences, and negotiates with functional leadership on product process goals. Act as "product conscience" for the category/division.
* Provides Sr. Ops staff with information they need to run their businesses.
* Supports business priorities to product team in order to facilitates decision-making and makes go/no-go decisions when product team is undecided or split.
* Plans and tracks key business milestones for the category/division, and ensure product is at key review meetings.
* Provides Category Leads, Development Directors, and Manufacturing and Innovation teams with information they need to run their businesses.
* Maintains strong connections with manufacturing offices regarding quality and production issues, and makes decisions around the quality and profitability of product.
* Tracks and measures Global Product Performance & profitability through sales/margin reports.

Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):
- Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience
Experience Required (Soft skills):
* Understands organizational and product strategies and priorities, as well as future trends, and fosters common goals across functional disciplines.
* Must possess a strong client focused approach to work. Effective project and resource management experience with a proactive approach to team specific issues.