Product Program Specialist

STANDARD TEXTILE; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Textile is seeking a Product Program Specialist in the United States to lead day-to-day product and program initiatives that support growth and profitability. The role involves managing product lifecycles and ensuring new products meet business goals.

You will partner with Merchandising, R&D, Marketing, Sourcing, and Sales to bring ideas from concept to commercialization while ensuring operational readiness for launch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 1–3 years experience in Product/Business/Marketing Strategy or Project Management preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required; Salesforce and Power BI preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and enthusiasm for new ideas.

Responsibilities

• Manage product development and commercialization from concept through final development for assigned programs.
• Lead RFP and brand program deliverables, ensuring complete, timely, and competitive submissions, including tailored customer-facing product samples.
• Develop and maintain pricing, margin analysis, and roadmap updates aligned to business objectives.
• Oversee program or RFP specific product projects, ensuring milestones and quality standards are met.
• Maintain existing assigned Hospitality Programs with incremental changes and ongoing assortment upkeep.
• Partner with R&D, Product Merchandising, Sourcing, and Marketing to align on design, cost, quality, and positioning.
• Collaborate with Sales and Account Management to support customer-specific initiatives and new opportunities.
• Coordinate launch readiness across internal teams including operations, marketing, and customer support.

Skills

Excel

Salesforce

Power BI

Communication

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Power BI

Job description

At Standard Textile, we’re dedicated to providing comfort and care across generations. Guided by our values, we focus on solutions that serve our customers, support our associates, and strengthen our communities. Since 1940, we’ve remained committed to creating better textiles—delivered seamlessly by experts who care. The Product Program Specialist leads the day-to-day execution of product and program initiatives that support Standard Textile’s growth strategy. This role manages product lifecycles, drives cross-functional collaboration, and ensures new products and programs meet business goals, customer expectations, and profitability targets. The Program Manager partners closely with Merchandising, R&D, Marketing, Sourcing, and Sales to bring ideas from concept to commercialization while ensuring operational readiness for launch.

Product & Program Leadership

• Manage product development and commercialization from concept through final development for assigned programs.
• Lead RFP and brand program deliverables, ensuring complete, timely, and competitive submissions, including tailored customer facing product sample submissions.
• Develop and maintain pricing, margin analysis, and roadmap updates aligned to business objectives.
• Oversee program or RFP specific product projects, ensuring milestones and quality standards are met.
• Maintain existing assigned Hospitality Programs with incremental changes and ongoing assortment upkeep.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with R&D, Product Merchandising, Sourcing, and Marketing to ensure alignment on design, cost, quality, and positioning.
• Collaborate with Sales and Account Management to support customer-specific initiatives and new opportunities.
• Coordinate launch readiness across internal teams including operations, marketing, and customer support.

Market & Customer Focus

• Gather and interpret customer and market insights to guide product improvements and new development.
• Support trade shows, customer presentations, and brand reviews with accurate and compelling product and program information.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• 1-3 years experience with Product, Business/Marketing Strategy Project Management experience preferred
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required, Salesforce and Power BI preferred
• Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills and enthusiastic about new ideas

PM21 Proudly, Standard Textile has earned a title of US Best Managed Company for the sixth year running, an honor awarded by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, celebrating the exceptional achievements of American private companies and their management teams.

Standard Textile is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

Join us! We’re passionate about creating innovative textiles and services that provide people around the world a healthier, more gratifying, and more inspiring life.

Founded in 1940, Standard Textile has developed a culture of innovation, quality, and service. With more than 150 patents, our products are engineered to deliver durability, longevity, and value. A vertically integrated company, we’re the leading global provider of total solutions in the institutional textiles and apparel markets. Leveraging textile design, manufacturing, and laundry expertise, and our global infrastructure, we serve customers in the healthcare, hospitality, interiors, workwear, and consumer markets worldwide. We have been inspiring care, comfort, and change in our communities for more than 85 years. While our business is creating innovative textiles, it’s our purpose that guides the solutions we offer and drives how we treat our customers, our associates, and the impact we make in our communities. We hold ourselves to a higher standard. A higher standard for why we exist, for how we create, and for what's next.

Standard Textile has been selected as US Best Managed Company for a fourth consecutive year! Sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, the program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams.

Standard Textile supports a Drug-Free Workplace.

Any offer of employment for this position will be contingent upon the candidate passing a post-offer, pre-employment drug screen* and satisfactory background investigation.

*Candidates selected for employment in Ohio will also be subject to a nicotine screening included in pre-hire requirements. In order to pass the nicotine screening, you must be completely free of the use of any nicotine containing products.

To support individuals protected under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, we offer reasonable accommodations.