Product Manager

Position Overview

As a member of the Operations team, the Product Manager (PM) serves as a liaison between WAV and its vendors, ensuring the success of the product lines in all facets of the relationships. The PM will be responsible for guiding the daily interactions, taking WAV's Executive strategic vision and developing the strategic roadmap, and clearly communicating their results in executing the strategy. The PM confidently collaborates with internal and external business stakeholders and vendors to define an action plan, and capture requirements. The ideal candidate displays a high degree of ownership, is agile, strives for continuous improvement, and judges his or her success by the success of the team and the satisfaction of WAV's customers, and achieving the Company's goals.

Essential Job Functions

• Establish rapport (with frequent communication) with key vendors

• Work internally with purchasing to align forecasts with quarterly product purchases and rotations/returns

• Communicate sales numbers and forecasts to key departments within the vendor

• Assist in managing the new vendor onboarding process

• Assist in coordinating new vendor training and determine new product training cadence

• Ensure WAV's sales and technical staff maintain required training, certifications, etc.

• Work closely with WAV's Marketing team to maximize MDF opportunities, promos for inventory and additional marketing activities

• Attend vendor partner events

• Assist sales staff by providing feedback on products, ancillary products, pricing, establishing BOM's, aligning vendor engineering/sales talent with WAV sales staff

• Participate in establishing SOPs (standard operating procedure) related to area of responsibility

• Communicate lead disposition and reporting to vendors

• Manage product life cycles and transitions to new products based on supported product lines

• Assist in developing and finding net new partners and establishing new markets

• Attend and conduct quarterly business reviews with WAV and vendors upper management

• Contract review, interpretation, and communication and execution of the requirements

• Any additional duties as assigned

Non-essential Job Functions

• Balance, execute and prioritize both routine and analytical tasks

• Support the growth and maintenance of WAV house accounts

• Maintain a clean, neat, and orderly work area

• Other duties as assigned