Senior Product Manager, Bioactive Ingredient Product Management

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

• Define and maintain target product profile for all developing Bioactives, designing the most commercially desirable, sellable and profitable products.  Determine target claims and positioning, functional profile, customer segmentation and pricing.
• Project manage Bioactive Ingredient work streams from inception to launch through Phase Gates, working with a highly cross-functional team and making key decisions along the way.
• Determine optimal market access strategy (global rollout) for each product to deliver speed to market, maximize revenue and profit.
• Identify and define new products and line extensions that will grow the Bioactives business by leveraging deep market knowledge of the Bioactives business from a customer, consumer and competitive standpoint.
• Determine competitive landscape and track key competitive activity in partnership with insights.
• Develop robust projections and forecasts to guide and measure business performance including ingredient demand and product as well as sales revenue.
• Partner with sales and engage directly with customers as the product expert to support customer success, product adoption and demand for Brightseed Bioactives innovation.
• Shape, inform, and drive development of customer prototypes and demonstration products that drive demand, demonstrate capability and accelerate product adoption.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU WILL NEED

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Food/Nutrition Sciences, or other related field; MBA is preferred.
• 5 - 7 years of specific product management experience.
• B2B Ingredients experience is essential. Health product or health ingredient experience would also be a big plus. 
• Food, beverage and supplement sector expertise, including strong understanding of ingredients and innovation processes and applications.
• Proven track record of working with other departments to facilitate delivery of innovation, customer collaboration and operational improvement projects.
• Expertise in analyzing, scoping and forecasting opportunities and options to define and key strategies to grow and optimize business.
• Effective collaboration with sales to generate and update revenue forecasts.
• Financial acumen to develop and maintain demand and production forecasts for all in-market and commercializing product.
• Significant experience in customer engagement and customer project facilitation.
• Strong entrepreneurial ability and willingness to build a Consumer & Market Insights structure in a rapidly evolving company.
• Ability to partner effectively across functions and act as a thought partner to key  stakeholders across a rapidly growing organization, as well as develop and manage a team with urgency to deliver against multi priorities and tight timelines.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at time.

COMPENSATION

• The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $170,000. 
• Compensation for this position is commensurate with relevant qualifications and work experience, academic credentials, job related skills, employment location and other factors. 
• More senior candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.