Senior Product Manager

Hi-Line provides vendor managed inventory (VMI) services and after-market products to the industrial after-market. Our products can be divided into nineteen product groups comprising over four hundred product lines and thousands of SKUs. The continued development and growth of our product offering is a high priority.

We seek an experienced person to lead the management and expansion of the Hi-Line product portfolio while upholding the company’s core values and competitive advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze competitive moves, sales trends, and market opportunities for new product or business requirements.
• Cultivate team member and customer relationships to better understand customer requirements and identify opportunities.
• Develop business knowledge to articulate business benefits for new opportunities and communicate the “why” across project teams.
• Design and communicate Product Roadmaps.
• Manage products throughout the product life cycle from inception, launch, growth, and retirement.
• Maintain and prioritize any product backlog and get cross-functional alignment on execution status and communicate throughout the company.
• Build go-to-market plans with a cross-functional team to ensure quick and successful adoption of new products.
• Lead steering meetings to promote products through phases of development and ensure all team members of the business are providing the needed support thus allowing the product toreach the market with maximum potential.
• Ensure product launches are done in a way that represents Hi-Line and maintains the standard for competitive differentiation.
• Confirm product information to ensure all digital pieces are aligned for supporting any launch.
• Coordinate product marketing support through the various phases of the marketing funnel for product launch as well as targeted marketing campaigns.
• Collaborate with Operations, Accounting, and Purchasing to research and bring operational efficiencies to current and future product lines in a way that ensures balance of the value.
• Develop and enhance vendor partnerships.
• Collaborate with the President, COO and sales leaders. Travel as required.
• Create product support tools.
• Support the sales, ops and marketing teams during major installation operations.
  
  

Skills And Experience

Servant Leadership | "Communicator of the Why" | Comfortable in the digital workspace | Attention to detail | Sound judgment | Just as comfortable directing a team member to do a task as they are to roll up their own sleeves | Lifetime learner | Enjoys solving problems | Ability to communicate high-level vision as well as the details to all audiences (executives, sales, customers, team members, vendors) | Generate analysis, communication, and training tools to support the business. | Four-year business degree.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Paid vacation (four weeks annually) and sick leave.
• 401(k), health, dental, and life insurance.
• A 60-year history of steady growth as a privately-held, Dallas, Texas-based company.
• Healthy work environment.
• An essential and debt-free business.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

At Hi-Line, Inc., we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants and our associates without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or any category protected by applicable law.

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