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Product Manager - (Healthy Snacks Division)

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About 8thAvenue

8thAvenue is a leading, private brand-centric consumer products holding company, manufacturing and selling private brand food products primarily to retail, foodservice, and ingredient customers. 8thAvenue Food & Provisions was formed in October 2018 through a combination of Post Holdings’ private brands businesses. The company is owned by Post Holdings and funds affiliated with Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”), a private equity firm.

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The feeling of pride you get when you see something you made being used to nurture the community around you is something you can’t replace. That’s what 8thAvenue Food & Provisions can do for you!

We are not only passionate about the products we make, but we also take pride in what we do! We believe it’s what’s inside that counts. Whether it’s inside our packaging or inside our facilities, you’ll find carefully chosen ingredients and people working together to make the best products possible.

We are a growing organization made up of businesses that produce quality products like Pasta, Peanut Butter, Fruit and Nut trail mixes, Granola, and a variety of other food products.

We’re looking for you! This is an exciting time to join our growing organization!

Position Summary:
This role is primarily responsible for managing the performance of the product line. The Product Manager will ensure optimal assortment of products for marketplace success. This includes providing the business with effective tools, training, and communication that result in value-added benefit to our customers.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develop product strategies that will maximize the long-term profitability and growth of the Healthy Snacks business.
  • Manage the product line for best balance between customer opportunity/expectation and supply-chain efficiency.
  • Partner with Sales to provide essential Sales & Marketing support materials that reinforce the value proposition of 8th Ave Food & Provisions. This includes website, literature, trade show support, and other digital assets.
  • Proactively understand and manage commodity costs to protect impact to P&L and to inform Sales with requisite & compelling information to share with customers.
  • Leverage and partner with Category Management, Insights, and Sales to identify new flavors/packaging and new products that leverage emerging consumer trends and provide customers with new opportunity areas for growth. Establish pricing on these new products.
  • Govern the product optimization across the entire enterprise to ensure highest efficiency of asset utilization.
  • Work with Category Management and Sales to proactively monitor competitive product and pricing activity and recommend strategic and tactical actions to achieve financial objectives.
  • Be the product line expert and resource for the business. Possess 360 knowledge of the product line that supports customers, sales, and management and ensures all product activities yield strategic benefit to the business.
  • Other duties, as assigned

    • Education and Experience Required:

  • Undergraduate degree in business or related area.
  • 5+ years’ experience with CPG and/or Private Brand food companies
  • Strong problem-solving experience, interpersonal skills, and analytical capabilities.
  • Ability to work with and build effective relationships with Sales, Finance, R&D, Supply-Chain, co-packers, suppliers, and customers.
  • Strong capabilities with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Track record of success creating strategies and implementing tactics to drive results.
  • Excellent written and communication skills.

    • Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills:

  • B.A. and / or related advanced degree
  • 7+ years’ experience with CPG and/or Private Brand food companies
  • Experience in grocery, foodservice, and ingredient channels
  • Advanced skills in analytical management
  • Experience in sales or financial management
  • Experience in Healthy Snacks category
  • Familiar with JDE, ACNielsen/IRI, and Tableau
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail

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    The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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