Hybrid Associate Product Manager: Launch & Growth

Samsonite Company Stores, LLC; Mansfield (OH); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsonite Company Stores, LLC is seeking an Associate Product Manager to support product strategy, development, and go‑to‑market launch across channels. This hybrid role requires coordination with Design, Sourcing, Marketing, and Sales to ensure timely delivery and alignment with brand goals.

You will analyze sales, margins, inventory, and pricing to drive assortment decisions, while maintaining calendars, trackers, and documentation for leadership reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Product Management, Merchandising, Marketing, Business, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 2+ years of experience in product management, merchandising, product development, brand management, planning, sourcing, or a related consumer‑products function.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales, margin, inventory, pricing, and market data.
• Demonstrated project-management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across functions, organizational levels, and geographic regions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with product lifecycle management, business intelligence, ERP, or project-tracking systems is preferred.
• Experience in consumer goods, travel products, accessories, retail, wholesale, or ecommerce is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support Brand Team Leader in developing product strategies across categories, channels, and consumer segments.
• Assist with the creation and maintenance of seasonal and long‑range product roadmaps.
• Conduct product, consumer, competitive, and market analysis to identify trends, assortment opportunities, and potential business risks.
• Analyze sales, margin, inventory, pricing, and product performance to support assortment and lifecycle recommendations.
• Help maintain product architecture, segmentation, pricing, and channel‑specific assortments.
• Support efforts to optimize the assortment, reduce unnecessary SKU proliferation, and minimize duplicate product development.
• Prepare product recommendations and supporting materials for internal reviews and leadership presentations.
• Coordinate product development activities in partnership with Design, Sourcing, Planning, Marketing, Sales, Ecommerce, and other business partners.
• Maintain product development calendars, project trackers, milestone dates, and action‑item lists.
• Monitor projects from concept through commercialization, proactively identifying timing concerns, missing information, and potential roadblocks.
• Coordinate product specifications, samples, costing information, packaging requirements, and product‑related approvals.
• Ensure product data and documentation are accurate, complete, current, and communicated to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Support costing and margin analyses for new and existing products.
• Follow up with cross‑functional partners to help keep projects aligned with agreed‑upon timelines, costs, quality expectations, and business objectives.
• Support the go‑to‑market process for new product introductions, seasonal launches, and assortment updates.
• Compile and distribute product information required by Marketing, Sales, Ecommerce, Planning, and other channel partners.
• Partner with Brand Marketing and Ecommerce teams to support product storytelling, launch materials, digital content, packaging, and asset requirements.
• Assist in preparing seasonal product presentations, line reviews, pricing documents, product briefs, and selling materials.
• Help ensure launch plans accurately reflect product availability, positioning, segmentation, pricing, and channel strategy.
• Track deliverables and communicate changes that could affect launch timing or execution.
• Prepare recurring reports and analyses related to sales, profitability, margin, inventory, forecasts, and product performance.
• Monitor new product performance and provide insights regarding opportunities, risks, and recommended actions.
• Support monthly forecasting, margin planning, and inventory review processes.
• Assist with identifying excess inventory risks and developing recommendations for product lifecycle, promotional, or liquidation strategies.
• Maintain accurate product and business information used in departmental reporting and decision‑making.
• Translate data into clear findings and actionable recommendations for the Brand Team Leader and cross‑functional partners.
• Participate in weekly brand team meetings and biweekly product development meetings, providing relevant updates and documenting decisions, risks, and next steps.
• Prepare meeting materials, agendas, product status updates, and action‑item recaps.
• Facilitate the consistent flow of product information across the organization to promote clarity, efficiency, and alignment.
• Build effective working relationships with Design, Sourcing, Brand Marketing, Performance Marketing, Planning, Merchandising, Sales, Ecommerce, Finance, and Operations.
• Escalate product, timing, costing, inventory, or communication concerns to the Brand Team Leader as appropriate.
• Contribute to a collaborative, transparent, and solutions‑oriented team environment.
• Recommends product, assortment, pricing, segmentation, and lifecycle actions based on analysis and business needs.
• Coordinates assigned product development projects and day‑to‑day deliverables within established strategies and approval parameters.
• Identifies and escalates material risks involving timing, cost, margin, quality, inventory, or launch readiness.
• Provides product information and analytical support to enable decisions by the Brand Team Leader and business leadership.
• Does not independently own final brand strategy, product architecture, long‑range development plans, financial targets, or major assortment and pricing decisions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Written and verbal communication

Attention to detail

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Product Management or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

ERP systems

Business intelligence tools

Job description

Samsonite Company Stores, LLC is seeking an Associate Product Manager to support product strategy, development, and go‑to‑market launch across channels. This hybrid role requires coordination with Design, Sourcing, Marketing, and Sales to ensure timely delivery and alignment with brand goals.

You will analyze sales, margins, inventory, and pricing to drive assortment decisions, while maintaining calendars, trackers, and documentation for leadership reviews.