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Manager - Product Assortment

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Key Responsibilities

Owns and drives the end-to-end new product introduction (NPI) and onboarding intake process for assigned product categories, ensuring clear prioritization,

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As a Manager - Product Assortment, Responsible for leading the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of new product introduction and product onboarding processes across assigned product categories. Accountable for ensuring efficient, scalable onboarding of products, enabling high-quality product data, and supporting strong sales performance, margin expansion, and a best-in-class digital product discovery experience.

Responsibilities

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  • Owns and drives the end-to-end new product introduction (NPI) and onboarding intake process for assigned product categories, ensuring clear prioritization, requirements definition, and timely progression of new products into onboarding workflows
  • Leads product onboarding initiation activities, including intake, identification of required product information, and alignment on data needs to support validation and enrichment by downstream teams
  • Partners cross-functionally (Category Management, Supplier Management, Master Data Management, Pricing, Inventory, and Digital teams) to ensure all required inputs, dependencies, and handoffs are clearly defined and executed
  • Ensures adherence to established product data standards and onboarding workflows, driving consistency, quality, and compliance across all new product introductions
  • Identifies gaps in onboarding inputs and requirements early in the process, proactively working with stakeholders and suppliers to resolve issues that could delay product activation
  • Monitors onboarding pipeline progress and intake quality, helping to remove bottlenecks and improve speed-to-market for new products
  • Aligns new product introduction priorities with overall assortment strategy, ensuring new products support category growth, customer demand, and financial objectives
  • Partners Digital teams to support launch readiness, ensuring newly onboarded products are positioned for activation and visibility
  • Communicates priorities, progress, and onboarding status across stakeholders, driving alignment, accountability, and execution against business objectives
  • May oversee one or more product assortment or onboarding professionals

Requirements

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  • Bachelors Degree – Marketing, Sales, IT or related field required; Master's Degree preferred
  • 5 years product assortment planning and management
  • 5 years managing product assortments through the product lifecycle with direct responsibility for channel execution, sales and ROI performance 
  • Strong understanding of product assortment strategy, market trends, customer behaviors and merchandising strategies applied in a complex global distribution environment for a single category
  • Demonstrated ability in implementing research findings into actionable and profitable programs that help drive market differentiation
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in Supply Chain, Category Management, Marketing, Pricing, and eCommerce/Omnichannel
  • Ability to multi-task and reprioritize in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Experience with sales reporting, profitability reporting, and financial analysis
  • Strong problem solving, influencing, and decision-making skills
  • Sales mentality and a proactive thinker who can translate corporate product management strategy into digital customer experiences
  • Strong analytical skills and excellent communication abilities 
  • Ability to travel 0% - 25%

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Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Glenview, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US

Listing Details

Posted
June 1, 2026
First seen
June 1, 2026
Last seen
June 1, 2026

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CSSManager - Product Assortment