Product Marketing Manager

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JOB INFO:
Location: Cold Spring, MN 
Department: Marketing
Supervisor: Brent Koosmann
Grade: MN-I
Pay Grade Range: $85,312-$103,349 (This is a representation of the position’s entire pay grade range. Starting pay is based on an individual’s skills, experience, and at the discretion of the hiring team.)
Status: This is a full-time; salaried position
Hours: Monday – Friday: 8:00am – 5:00pm
Benefits Offered to Full-time Employees: Health, Dental, Optical, Medical FSA/HSA, Dependent Care (FSA), Basic Life Plan, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, 401K with Company Match, Profit Sharing (ROA), PTO (Vacation), Holidays, Jury Duty, and Funeral Leave
ABOUT US:
Who we are: Coldspring, a family-owned business since 1898, is a leading quarrier and fabricator of natural stone and bronze for architectural, memorial, residential, and industrial markets. Headquartered in Cold Spring, Minnesota, with a primary manufacturing facility and bronze foundry, the company employs over 800 people nationwide, operating 30 quarries and multiple fabrication sites. Coldspring’s success stems from the dedication of its team, a commitment to innovation, and a focus on meeting and exceeding customer expectations while upholding corporate sustainability. 
What We Believe: To cultivate a culture of engagement, we emphasize the importance of physical, financial, social, community, career, and spiritual well-being—an approach we refer to as Well-Being 6.
Our Values: HONOR: We uphold Honesty & Integrity, approach our work in an Organized & Purposeful manner, embrace Nimbleness & Innovation, and maintain an Open & Transparent culture. With Respect & Trust as our foundation, we effectively balance the interests of employees, customers, and shareholders to create what we term win-win-win solutions. 
Join our Team: At Coldspring, our employees benefit from profit sharing, a 401K match, extensive training and career advancement opportunities, professional development, financial services, on-site coaching, wellness counseling, and more. Our comprehensive benefits and dedication to employee growth have fostered a workforce with exceptional retention and long-term commitment. 
JOB SUMMARY: The Product Marketing Manager is the bridge between the external end user and internal Coldspring functional teams in developing/improving value stream activities that create deeper connections with our customers while optimizing our resources.  They are responsible for overseeing the product and pricing management system while managing all aspects of our product and service offerings/portfolios.  This includes, but is not limited to research, strategy, value proposition, new product development and improvement, KPI’s, forecasting, product pricing, margin, and life cycle management. This role will have an emphasis on supporting our commercial construction product market.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Leads the product management function and serves as a steward of Coldspring’s product/service solutions providing oversight across the value streams while coordinating with various functional groups to ensure the integrity of Coldspring’s value proposition(s) to meet market needs while achieving company goals.
• Oversee all product management responsibilities across entire product/service portfolio throughout product lifecycles
• Coordinates with leadership to provide direction and priority setting for improvement projects to align with established strategies that drive sustainable value proposition.
• Use strategic and quantitative analysis to support recommendations for new products or improvements, facilitate trade-off decision making, and lead business execution for approved products in the portfolio.
• Maintain insights around market trends, technologies, competitors, customer base, market size, channels of distribution, market share, industry trade associations and required product certifications for developing business in a targeted market segment.
• Conduct effective change management process and communication plans ensuring proper involvement of key stakeholders.
• Determine product pricing and recommended pricing policies based on established gross margin objectives and prepare plans for margin improvement where necessary.
• Responsible to ensure that product training efforts of internal and external customers are consistent with product segment objectives and positioning
• Work with the marketing communications team to provide input to and support the development and roll-out of marketing communication and sales enablement activities
• Establishes measurements within each phase of the product management activities to ensure effective results against objectives and budgets.
• Actively pursues ongoing learning in their field and is an expert in the markets we serve, emerging product management/pricing trends, project management, change management and KPI’s to improve efficiencies within the company.

education & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent work experience
• A minimum of six years of product management and/or marketing experience. Preferred experience in the commercial construction market.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:

• Strong business acumen around strategy, finance, cost accounting, market drivers, and value-added activities.
• Highly proficient in research and analysis, project management, product management, price optimization principles, and forecasting.
• Experience in Business activities (understanding market problems; market definition including market sizing and segmentation, defining positioning); Technical activities (performing competitive analysis, defining user personas and user scenarios); Go-to-Market activities (defining marketing plans, understanding the customer’s buying process, launch planning, buyer personas, success stories, thought leadership); and Sales Readiness activities (sales channel training, collateral, internal sales tools, presentations & demos, FAQ, etc.)
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Coldspring is a Veteran Friendly, Wellness-Oriented, Tobacco-Free Company. Coldspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will give all qualified applicants consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

 

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