Product Manager

Who are we?

Our passion for coffee makes SEB Professional North America a growing company!

We are in the professional coffee machine business managing three leading global brands: Schaerer, WMF, and Wilbur Curtis.

You can find our coffee machines in convenience stores, hotels, and restaurants worldwide. Chances are you have enjoyed a cup of coffee brewed by one of our products during your morning coffee run at McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, or Tim Hortons.

SEB Professional is a subsidiary of Groupe SEB, a large French consortium and the world’s largest manufacturer of cookware in more than 150 countries, with 33,000 employees and over €8,1 b in sales annually. Notable brand names associated are Tefal, T-Fal, Krups, Lagostina, Rowenta, Moulinex, SUPOR, Arno, Emsa, All-Clad. Our Company operates in the Professional Coffee Machine division.

Salary Range: $100,000 - $115,000 DOE

What you’ll do?

As a Product Owner your scope consists of leading complex projects and Curtis branded products, aligning product vision with business objectives, translating market & customer insights into feature ideation, and prioritizing and executing a roadmap that achieves business objectives. Your immediate focus would be to reimagine and redefine the Curtis branded products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, develop, and enhance products - manage product roadmaps, create requirement documents, align business and technical needs, analyze customer and product data, turn customer insights into actionable initiatives, determine rollout strategy, and manage risks.


• Identify strategies and a vision for fulfillment and customer location products using internal and external best practices, market opportunities, and business cases.


• Build collaborative relationships with key partners by driving priorities aligned to business goals, communicating, and prioritizing product roadmaps, and gaining buy-in from executive leadership.


• Maintain a product & feature roadmap and manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, site performance and operational support load.


• Writes complete & detail-oriented product requirements documents; Ensures clear communications of requirements to the business, design, usability & development teams.


• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals; As the subject matter expert, forecast, monitor, understand and report on team's product lines and own the overall results.


• Create buy-in for their product vision both within the team and with key enterprise stakeholders; Lead cross-functionally to ensure Curtis brand implements the business vision efficiently.


• Leverage their thorough understanding of the professional coffee industry, its seasonality and global business trends/events, and competitor/industry developments when managing priorities and trade-offs on their product and feature roadmap.


• Identify and assess the value of technology licensing with new vendors to deliver on innovative customer experience features.

What you need to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent


• 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience.


• Proven analytical and quantitative skills (experience with excel and access); ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and feature concepts; comfort with pro-forma financial and operational analysis.


• Implementation orientation; demonstrated ability to translate strategic differentiators into innovative and detailed product requirements.


• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects across diverse groups, including UX design, creative, technology development, and QA - work prioritization and planning.


• Knowledge of E-commerce business KPIs and technologies.


• Product management/marketing experience within a consumer goods, retail or internet company.


• Demonstrated success building buy-in for an innovative and bold vision.


• Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members.


• Nimbleness and comfort with ambiguity; comfort responding quickly to rapidly evolving threats and opportunities.


• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Physical Requirements:

• Standing, Walking


• Manual dexterity


• Ability to Lift up to 50lbs occasionally

Overview:

• Type of employment: Full time – Exempt


• Workplace type: Hybrid (3 days on-site, 2 days remote) Irvine, CA


• Travel: Up to 50%

Why SEB Professional North America?

Whether working remotely, in one of our offices, or flexing between the two, we offer a number of benefits and perks to support you and your family. Please ask your recruiter for additional details regarding our benefits.

• Health insurance – Generous Employer Contribution


• Competitive 401(K) program w/ Company match up to 5%


• On-site Gym


• Vision & Dental Insurance


• Life insurance


• 12 Paid Holidays 


• Other voluntary benefits and discounts programs

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

SEB Professional is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. For more information, please see OFCCP Equal Employment.