Associate Product Manager - Outdoors

Westfield Outdoors is an Indianapolis-based company that solely represents a well-established, fast growing international manufacturing group. It provides manufacturing and international importing services for outdoor leisure products, including camping furniture, tents, shelters, backpacks, trekking bags, soft coolers, pet products, baby products, hunting accessories, fishing tackle, and patio furniture. Westfield Outdoors is the leading global supplier of OEM/private labeling manufacturing services in the outdoor leisure products industry.

Associate Product Manager 

We are looking for an experienced Associate Product Manager to participate in the creation of new products and features, from the idea stage to launch.

To be successful in this role, you should have previous experience in end-to-end project management. Your main responsibilities include gathering product requirements, prioritizing feature implementations and improving overall user experience. Our ideal candidates should combine technical product background with a Product Management or Marketing degree.

Ultimately, you’ll work with internal teams to build products that fill gaps in market and increase customer satisfaction.

Expectations of the Associate Product Manager:

• Suggest product enhancements to improve user experience
• Coordinate with the engineering and product design teams to deliver functional solutions
• Conduct research to identify customer needs and market gaps
• Monitor and report on users’ reactions after launching
• Create support and training documents for internal and external users
• Analyze competition
• Provides up to date Market information in support of major Customer’s product line reviews.
• Develops a Catalog Offering under the Company’s Brand for the Soft Cooler category
• Acquires Consumer Insights via all Methodologies to ensure products are being developed to meet the needs of targeted Consumers.
• Requests and conducts grass roots Consumer Research
• Create the detailed Product Briefs that provide the direction for the new product development projects obtaining input from the Sales Team.
• Ensures the four Product Goal Sets of Product Cost, Product Performance, Project Schedule and Project Budget are tracked and achieved.
• Participate in Customer meetings and perform product demos to Customers
• Develop sales tools and collateral
• Brief and train the sales force at regularly scheduled Company meetings

Requirements of the Associate Product Manager Position:

• Minimum of 1 years’ experience as a Product Manager, Assistant Buyer, Salesperson within the Outdoor Industry
• Demonstrated success, defining and launching of Consumer Products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Experience in Project Management, Product Development and Consumer Research methodologies.
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Ability to effectively use MS Office programs; PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Proven Ability to present to all levels of Management
• Must be able to travel both Internationally and Domestic 30% of the time