Associate Product Manager - Multiquip Inc.

Why Work At Multiquip?

Multiquip Inc has been in business for almost 50 years, with our parent company ITOCHU International Inc. who is part of the Fortune Global 500 companies. We are one of the largest, diversified manufacturers and suppliers of excellent quality products. Multiquip’s comprehensive product portfolio includes light to medium construction equipment, power generators, and lighting.

Join our team as an Associate Product Manager!

The Associate Product Manager is responsible for supporting the planning and execution of product line initiatives and overall category strategy.  This includes development of new products, optimizing and increasing profitability of existing product lines, and vendor management.  The position assists in leading product development from conceptual stages through its entire life cycle to optimize profit and meet marketing, sales, financial, and corporate growth objectives. The APM will have an opportunity to lead innovation and growth within assigned category extensions.

• Supports product strategies and proactively helps manage products throughout the lifecycle to ensure success of products.
• Supports product category strategy and P&L to achieve established revenue, margin and profit goals
• Maintains market position of products through competitive review
• Works with Engineering, Operations and Strategic Sourcing to identify and execute cost out initiatives to maintain market competitiveness
• Helps to identify new product opportunities and conduct analysis by product line to support resource allocation.
• Supports internal teams in establishing pricing strategy of assigned products, ensuring that financial targets including sales volume and margins are monitored and achieved.
• Assists the marketing department in the development of promotions and other initiatives related to the sales and marketing of assigned products.
• Assists the marketing department to update and maintain company web site, videos and sales literature.
• Assists the technical publications department as necessary in creating and verifying content for operations manuals, instructions sheets and service bulletins.
• Travels to assist salespeople in the promotion, education and sales of assigned products to distribution partners, rental companies and end users. Additional travel might be required to visit vendors/factories.
• Works with suppliers to ensure acceptable product quality, conformance and support to include communicating product quality issues and product improvement requests through established formats and resolving warranty issues.
• Coordinates with suppliers to ensure current and accurate product manuals and service/parts manuals are published and shipped in accordance with company guidelines.
• Assists in product updates and improvements to management, applicable company employees, channel partners and customers.
• Monitor warranty and ensure that product issues are resolved.
• Performs other duties that may be assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A/B.S.) or equivalent from a four-year college/university in Business Administration, Marketing, Engineering, or related field
• 2-3 years of related experience in Product Management.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking skills.
• Solid communication skills to include verbal and written capabilities;
• strong presentation ability including with all audiences and levels of management.
• Experience in the manufacturing of construction equipment or Rental Construction/Power equipment a plus. 
• Japanese or Spanish language skills a plus.
• The position requires an ability to understand, balance and direct multiple product lines with differing market demands.
• Working knowledge of MS Office is required.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demand 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to use hands, to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.