Assistant Product Manager - BBB Industries LLC

Company Overview:

At BBB we bring sustainable manufacturing to life. Our employees help to develop products and services that enable our customers to achieve business success. From delivering forward-focused, sustainable solutions to the remanufactured and OEM auto parts industry, to recycled solar panels and EV batteries, we aspire to build and maintain market-leading businesses. To enable this outcome, BBB’s employees are all dedicated to our mission, purpose, and values of operating ethically and contributing to our communities in a positive way. Our inclusive and collaborative work environment is focused on celebrating our diversity and recognizing what has kept us as a market leader for 35 years – our people.

PURPOSE

Reporting to a Director or Senior Manager in the Marketing and Product Management Team, the Assistant Product Manager will be focused towards assisting in continuous product category growth and the strategic objectives of the product business team. Daily activities will include preparing and maintaining critical product data, assisting new product R&D, competitor analysis, interchanges, market intelligence, and product item maintenance. The position requires excellent communication with cross functional departments, vendors, and channel partners contacts. Keys to success and future growth in BBB Industries include great organization, project management, and practical thinking.

JOB DUTIES

• Support aggressive new product development by tracking milestones for product launches
• Research new SKU application data, prices, VIO, and OE sales to produce new product sales forecasts
• Assist Marketing and Product Management Team in preparing executive level product line reviews that include current product category value propositions, market share, market intelligence, industry trends, and Right-to-Win strategies
• Maintain product status reports through life cycle changes, rationalizations, and catalog consolidation process reviews
• Interact with sales teams, category management, pricing team, engineering team, catalog team, technical service and customer service to gather and distribute information.
• Support customer presentations and fact-based materials to educate current and future partners
• Maintain competitive part number interchanges for consistency and accuracy
• Participate in the development of product sales and training literature
• Support sourcing, procuring and shipping samples for Research and Development
• Participate in data maintenance activities in support of the company’s ERP system
• Review product images and catalog selling data
• Work with technical and customer service lines where needed for customer inquiry resolutions

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Qualifications

• Associates degree in a technical or business major (Bachelors Preferred)
• Minimum 2 years of work experience in an office environment.
• Minimum 2 years of work experience in an Automotive related business
• Understanding of major functional systems within an automobile (For example, braking systems, starting and charging systems, steering and suspension systems)
• Proficient in MS office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail
• Minimum 10% travel (factory visits, trade shows, commercial team support)
• Ability to travel without restriction to Mexico and Canada to engage in visits to our facilities and customers
• Physical requirement: able to handle 45 pounds of product/samples

Preferred Skills

• Project management processes and tools
• Demonstrate proficient use of online applications and web searching tools
• Bilingual: English and Spanish

Keys to Success

• Results driven
• Practical thinking and problem solving
• Motivation for learning and continuous improvement
• Integrity, consistency and fairness