Product Development Manager - New business development in Benton Harbor

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

Hey, so what are you doing right now?

We understand that could be a loaded question; it’s supposed to be. And it's a genuinely important question. This is a big job, and we gotta make sure your head is in the game.

So we're looking for someone to help develop an emerging international brand.

Sounds pretty straight forward, right?

No, not right. Obviously not right, or we wouldn't have positioned the question that way.

Anyway back to the important stuff: what you're doing. You’ve experience creating products for large, well known CPG organizations and let’s face it, you’ve realized that it really isn’t product development in that environment, it’s project management for someone else’s idea. But you have always looked at the world a bit differently, saw opportunities that other people have missed and often tried to address those spaces with new ideas. Sometimes landing a success, sometimes only walking away with a lot more learning than when you started.

But now you want something different, you want more.

You want to own the development of products from idea all the way to market. And this is where we come in. We’re jones'n for someone who wants to take that killer growth attitude and combine it with everyday roll up your sleeves, “gotta get it done cause if I don’t, no one will,” execution. Someone who understands the complexities of marketing, sales, and business development in a high growth consumer package goods business while executing these disciplines in a large bureaucratic organization. Take all this, while remaining deeply connected to your creative, artistic, and entrepreneurial roots.

This CPG brand is our corporation’s first real attempt to seriously enter the chemistry consumables space. The main horse is an appliance cleaner that is in direct competition with one of the world’s strongest brands. We have distribution into Walmart, Target, Kroger, Lowe’s, Home Depot, to name afew. And we have recently introduced 4 additional products to increase brand awareness.

We are purely a grass roots brand and product development organization. Our job is to identify a consumer need in the home cleaning space, investigate it, see how the problem could be solved, and then solve it. We live innovation every day.

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