Product Manager - Retail Exam Gloves - Full-time / Part-time

Medline
Industries, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Product Manager, Retail
Exam Glovesfocused on our product lines sold into retail accounts for
our Exam Glove Division based in Northfield, IL.
With support from the Product Division and Corporate Marketing Manager you will
manage the product life cycle of established branded and private label glove
lines by sourcing product, negotiating pricing, maintaining product cost
databases, analyzing product specs, participating in product bids and offers,
and providing sales with daily support for retail glove product lines.
We are seeking a dynamic, hard-working professional with a desire to work for a
large, fast-paced, private organization and a solid background in product
management, with a high preference for someone with experience in Consumer
Packaged Goods. In addition to exceptional leadership and analytical skills,
you must have a "roll-up your sleeves" attitude.
The challenging responsibilities of the position include:

• Identify and develop new products and
  manage each stage of the process through take to market.
• Collaborate with Regulatory, Quality,
  and Marketing Divisions to design, review, sustain current and execute new
  private brand packaging initiatives
• Review monthly financial performance
  and determine contributing factors. Offer solutions for detrimental sales
  or cost trends. Prepare product forecasts to include revenue and expense
  expectations. Analyze sales trends over time and impact of competitive
  strategies. Support forecasts and budgets with appropriately detailed
  marketing plans.
• Work with Manufacturing, Purchasing
  and Engineering to reduce Cost of Goods by assessing packaging, alternate
  materials, new sources of material, stocking, make to order, direct to
  customer shipments, etc. Manage inventory by focusing on eliminating
  surplus and optimizing SKU count. May negotiate pricing with vendors for
  raw materials and finished goods. Visit vendors to develop products and
  train personnel all aspects of each product and usages. Coordinate
  materials with vendors and develop finished custom items.
• Analyze and bid on new and existing
  branded and private branded retail business for assigned product
  categories.
• Develop and deliver training materials
  for internal stakeholders, sales forces and customers. Create sales tools.
• Interface with Quality teams and
  vendor partners to design, implement, and maintain social accountability
  programs in factories and maintain high levels of ethical product
  production.
• Travel with sales force to support
  efforts to convert customers to purchase Medline products. Provide timely
  follow up to sales forces by answering product questions via e-mail and
  phone.

In
return, Medline offers a business casual, entrepreneurial work environment with
strong growth potential; a competitive compensation package; along with a
complete benefits package including medical/dental/vision/life insurance;
education assistance; 401(k) with company match and much more!
Basic
Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• At least 2 years of marketing,
  sales, product management or clinical practice experience.
• Experience negotiating with
  outside vendors and internal resources.
• Experience collecting and
  analyzing financial data.
• Willing to travel 10-20" of the
  time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
• Intermediate level skill in
  Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers
  and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Intermediate level skill in
  Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character
  spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors,
  adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or
  formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in
  Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting
  column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers
  and footers and/or print scaling).

Preferred
Requirements

• Healthcare industry experience
• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
  experience in sales, marketing, category management