Job Description
Title: Product Manager
Location: Chicago Suburbs, remote until new office is open in 2027!
Hire Type: Direct hire
Compensation: $100-120k
Bonus/ Incentives/ Stock Options: Annual Bonus potential
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k
Must have Skill Set:
- 4+ years of Product Management experience
- Experience with product innovation, gap analysis, and competitive research
- Retail manufacturing experience managing a broad product portfolio
- Strong analytical skills with experience using product data and market insights
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to help drive product innovation, competitive positioning, and portfolio strategy for a growing manufacturing organization. This role will focus on analyzing market and competitor data, identifying product gaps, and using insights to guide scalable product decisions across a broad portfolio.
The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple products within a retail manufacturing environment and is comfortable using data and market research to influence product strategy. Experience with durable, rugged, tooling, industrial, or similar products is highly preferred.
Job Duties:
- Lead product innovation initiatives through market research, product gap analysis, and competitive analysis
- Evaluate competitor products, features, pricing, and positioning to identify opportunities for portfolio improvements
- Own and analyze product data to develop actionable insights and recommendations
- Help shape internal product strategy based on market trends, competitive intelligence, and portfolio performance
- Identify product enhancements and opportunities that can be implemented across a broad customer base
- Partner with engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and other internal teams to support product development and strategy
- Drive continuous improvement across a diverse and growing product portfolio
- Balance market opportunities with business objectives to support scalable product decisions
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of Product Management experience, preferably within a manufacturing or consumer/retail product environment
- Proven experience with product innovation, competitive research, and product gap analysis
- Experience managing or supporting a diverse portfolio of products rather than a limited number of individual SKUs
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate product data into business recommendations
- Experience influencing internal product decisions rather than solely responding to customer-specific requests
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with durable, rugged, industrial, tooling, or other highly functional products is a plus
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Rosemont, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $100,000–$120,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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