Product Line Manager Jobs in Tennessee (NOW HIRING)

Level: Experienced. Job Location: Mt Juliet - Mt. Juliet, TN 37122. Position Type: Full Time. Job Category: Other.

Assists Product Managers and/or Sr. Product Managers with marketing and business plans for the product segment. Provides support for optimization and operational responsibilities of the existing product line and supports implementation of new products into the market.

• Assists in writing strategic product plans with strategic marketing objectives and strategies, including long term profitability, volumes (top-line growth) and new product and acquisition proposals.
• Supports Product Managers with responsibilities such as market analysis, product specification, product and price positioning, business case approval including the long-range volume, revenue and margin projections.
• Assists in the life cycle management of products in portfolio as per strategic plan objectives and strategies and therefore guardian of product line proliferation.
• Leading/Supporting the VOC (Voice of the Customer) process.
• Product champions and experts for key identified product groups. Product management has to sign off as Core member of product project team.
• Responsible for managing and working with other support teams (Purchasing, Engineering, etc.) on value improvement initiatives within the product segment.
• Support process of spare parts documentation, owner’s manuals, and order forms; support product related market research activities within the markets.
• Support the product training process.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Biomedical Engineering, Engineering, Marketing, Communications, or Business; therapist or other relevant clinical background also preferred.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
• 2 plus years selling or technical background a plus.
• Able to make presentations in a professional manner.
• Flexible and able to travel frequently.
• Must be team player and potential leader with strong interpersonal skills.

• Diagnostic Information Gathering – Identifying the information needed to clarify a situation, seeking that information from appropriate sources, and using skillful questioning to draw out the information.
• Initiative – Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked to or required by the situation.
• Technical Expertise – Depth of knowledge and skill in a technical area.
• Thoroughness – Ensuring that one’s own and other’s work and information are complete and accurate; careful preparation for meetings and presentations; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
• Interpersonal Awareness – Noticing, interpreting, and anticipating others’ concerns and feelings, and communicating this awareness empathetically to others.
• Fostering Teamwork – As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together cooperatively.
• Building Collaborative Relationships – Developing and maintaining partnerships with others.
• Customer Orientation – Demonstrated concern for satisfying one’s external and/or internal customers.

• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
• Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
• Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
• Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
• Lifting/Carry Weight - Must frequently move and lift up to 10 lbs. and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 lbs.
• Attendance - Regular attendance is required.
• Overtime - Must be able to work overtime, as required.
• Travel – Ability to travel for business purposes.