The Associate Product Manager supports product strategies that drive brand growth, sales, profitability, and market share. Working with the Brand Team Leader and cross-functional partners, this role helps manage products from concept through launch, in-market performance, and discontinuation, serving as a central point of coordination for product information, timelines, samples, pricing, and assortment planning. This is a hybrid role; we work on site 4 days and remotely 1 day weekly.
Product Strategy and Assortment Support
- Support the Brand Team Leader in developing and executing product strategies and seasonal and long-range roadmaps.
- Analyze sales, margin, inventory, pricing, competitive, and market data to identify trends, risks, and assortment opportunities.
- Help maintain product architecture, segmentation, pricing, and channel assortments, reducing SKU proliferation and duplicate development.
- Prepare product recommendations and materials for internal reviews and leadership presentations.
Product Development and Project Management
- Coordinate product development with Design, Sourcing, Planning, Marketing, Sales, Ecommerce, and other partners.
- Maintain development calendars, project trackers, and milestone dates, proactively flagging timing concerns and roadblocks.
- Coordinate specifications, samples, costing, packaging requirements, and approvals, keeping product data accurate and current.
- Support costing and margin analyses for new and existing products.
Go-to-Market Execution
- Support go-to-market activities for new product introductions, seasonal launches, and assortment updates.
- Compile and distribute product information to Marketing, Sales, Ecommerce, Planning, and other channel partners.
- Assist with line reviews, pricing documents, product briefs, and selling materials, and communicate changes that could affect launch timing.
Business Analysis and Performance Management
- Prepare recurring reports on sales, profitability, margin, inventory, forecasts, and new product performance.
- Support monthly forecasting, margin planning, and inventory reviews, including recommendations for excess inventory.
- Translate data into clear findings and actionable recommendations for the Brand Team Leader and partners.
Communication and Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Participate in weekly brand team and biweekly product development meetings, preparing materials and documenting decisions, risks, and next steps.
- Build effective working relationships across Design, Sourcing, Marketing, Planning, Merchandising, Sales, Ecommerce, Finance, and Operations.
- Escalate product, timing, costing, or inventory concerns to the Brand Team Leader as appropriate.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Product Management, Merchandising, Marketing, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in product management, merchandising, product development, brand management, planning, or sourcing in consumer products.
- Strong analytical skills with sales, margin, inventory, pricing, and market data.
- Strong project-management, organizational, communication, and attention-to-detail skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with PLM, BI, ERP, or project-tracking systems preferred.
- Experience in consumer goods, travel, accessories, retail, wholesale, or ecommerce preferred.
Why you'll love working here:
- Our employees matter. As a people-focused business, we work hard to provide meaningful rewards and development opportunities for our employees, recognizing performance, and creating a supportive working environment for them, wherever they are based.
- Vibrant culture. We are committed to a diverse and rich culture, welcoming people from all walks of life. Our long-standing commitment to culture and inclusion empowers us to bring our authentic selves and unique differences to work every day.
- Socially responsible. We want to minimize our products' impact on the environment and help create positive journeys worldwide. We do this by creating the best products using the most sustainable and innovative materials, methods, and models.
What we value:
At Samsonite, we do more than create the bags that move with our consumer, we inspire and celebrate the moments that move them. We believe we have a responsibility to the world in how we operate, the products we sell, the communities where we live and work, and how we treat the people we employ. We're as diverse as travel itself, and like travel, your journey with Samsonite presents the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and explore your passions. This is why we offer various paths for professionals and celebrate the knowledge and skills they bring to our team. We are committed to a respectful workplace that allows our team members to bring their best selves to the workplace daily.
Samsonite is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting and maintaining a work environment in which all applicants, associates, customers, and other individuals are treated with dignity and respect free from unlawful harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.
Who we are:
Samsonite is the worldwide leader in superior travel bags, luggage, and accessories combining notable style with the latest design technology and the utmost attention to quality and durability. For more than 100 years, Samsonite has leveraged its rich heritage to create unparalleled products that fulfill the travel lifestyle needs of conscious movers everywhere. With a portfolio of brands including Samsonite, Tumi, American Tourister, BÉIS, High Sierra, Gregory, Hartmann, and Lipault Paris, our products are sold in over 100 countries in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America through our company-operated retail store, websites and a variety of retail partners.