Job Description:

At Emerson, we are innovators and problem-solvers, focused on a common purpose: leaving our world in a better place than we found it. Each and every day, our foundational values—integrity, safety and quality, supporting our people, customer focus, continuous improvement, collaboration and innovation—inform every decision we make and empower our employees to keep reaching higher. As a global technology and engineering leader, we provide groundbreaking solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Our Emerson Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturers maximize production and protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure.

Emerson, a Fortune 500 company with $15.3 billion in sales and 200 manufacturing locations worldwide, is committed to helping employees grow and thrive throughout their careers.
Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring options or a recent MBA graduate, you’ll find a variety of opportunities at Emerson. Join our team and start your journey today.

Our Values

Emerson Professional Tools is a business unit of Emerson Electric, a Fortune 500 company, representing the RIDGID, Greenlee and Klauke brands.  We believe that team collaboration is the key to delivering on our brand promise.  Our people are passionate about working together to solve challenging problems for our customers and our business. Our products and tools are used by millions of trade professionals worldwide.  Our products incorporate diverse opinions to bring high quality, new solutions to market. These products are distributed across the globe through a distributor channel network of industrial, wholesale, and retail partners (i.e., Grainger, Ferguson, Sonepar, The Home Depot, etc.).  Our end-customers are focused primarily around the Plumbing / Mechanical / Electrical contractors, as well as Industrial/Institutional organizations.

RIDGID (Elyria, OH) is a global leader in pipe-working tools (threading, pressing, underground inspection, drain cleaning, hand tools, etc); Greenlee (Rockford, IL) is a global leader in electrical tools (hole making, bending, pulling, crimping, hand tools, etc); and Klauke (Remscheid, Germany) is a global leader in electrical connection technology and hydraulic tools (crimping, cutting and punching).  RIDGID, Greenlee and Klauke are the brands of choice when a job requires purpose-built, durable and dependable tools that perform in the most demanding conditions.  Similarly, these brands are recognized as the industry leaders for incorporating new technology to produce innovative tools for the professional tradesmen.

What is a Retail Product and Channel Manager?

This position is focused on driving the RIDGID brand in the retail channel.  This role is expected to drive critical elements such as: new product development, channel marketing, strategic partner management, new business opportunities and business analysis.  This role is located in our RIDGID® World HQ in Elyria (just a little west of Cleveland), Ohio USA.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Build and apply product and customer knowledge to identify new retail product opportunities and specifications.


• Lead cross-functional, collaborative new product development teams.


• Build and apply retail channel expertise and customer knowledge to identify marketing and promotional opportunities.


• Partner with cross-functional, collaborative retail channel marketing and operations teams.


• Monitor and develop deep understanding of competition.


• Manage product portfolios to maximize sales, profitability and ROI. 


• Develop and execute long-term category vision and forecast.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience of professional product management, marketing or equivalent experience that demonstrates the requirements of the job


• Involvement in new product development projects and project management methodologies


• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering or related field required


• Willingness to travel for work (~30%)

 

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in the hardware/home center market is a plus


• MBA

 

Desired Knowledge and Experience

• Creativity - ability to immerse oneself in the customer environment and visualize new product/service applications


• Strong business acumen to gauge marketplace trends, the development of new technologies and products, and competitor activity.


• Ability to communicate and present critical information to all levels of employees and customers to achieve assigned objectives.


• Ability to effectively identify and resolve complex problems. 


• Capacity to coordinate multi-year projects that have significant impact on the organization


• The organizational agility, interpersonal skills and political savvy necessary to gain cooperation of several departments that do not report directly to the position.


• Strong analytical skills – must be comfortable developing data-driven analyses to support new product recommendations, pricing decisions, and other category initiatives


• Core Skills of planning, organizing and process management to maneuver with other functions such as, engineering, manufacturing, marketing communications and others

Who You Are

You build and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations.  You identify and seize new opportunities.  You create teamwork allowing others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.  You prepare content for communication that is impactful.

Perks and Benefits

• Matching 401k and Defined Contribution

• Medical, Dental, Vision


• Employee discounts


• Tuition assistance


• Short/Long Term Disability


• On site Fitness Center


• Performance Bonus


• Tool Lender Program

 

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

 
Equal Opportunity Employer

Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.

 

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