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PMI WW Brands LLC Contract Product Manager in Seattle, Washington
ABOUT US tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world's leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions - from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery. Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including Starbucks, T-Mobile, O2, McDonald's, and adidas. Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best. WHAT MATTERS THE MOST Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving. tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com. WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE TMS is looking for a Contract Product Manager, North America Programs, responsible for executing and tracking product programs to support growth opportunities for the Specialty Coffee business unit. You are an experienced decorative product design creator, adept at creative product solving, maintaining detailed milestone trackers and driving deadlines with cross functional teams while managing proactive and thoughtful top tier customer service. WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION Create product concepts and assortments that embrace customer program themes, briefs, and price targets. Deliver inspired designs season over season. Be an expert on decorative feasibility to ensure your innovation aligns to manufacturing capability and constraints. Manage product deliverables and create presentation materials from concept to two dimensional renderings through approved sample status, ensuring products and presentations align to customer objectives and all quality expectations and best practices. Track and report out on status of customer and internal timelines. Drive internal project timelines and deliverables in alignment with management direction and with proactive management reviews to achieve customer deadlines within our companies' global program priority, lead times and best practices. Collaborate with Account management to ensure program goals are achieved such as customer and production related deadlines, customer cost targets and gross margin expectations. Partner with the graphics team to create high quality, visually impactful power point presentations using our brand templates that showcase the product assortments while ensuring content validation and accuracy. Review artwork files for line accuracy and quality as well as alignment to the renders presented to the customer. Partner with technical product management team on sampling to ensure first time accuracy with clear communication and immediate sample reviews and feedback. Distil customer feedback with your manager as needed to resolve sample timing or execution issues prior to engagement with the technical product management team. Maintain all product development tracking tools in a timely and efficient manner ensuring all request forms are complete and accurate. Work ahead of schedule whenever possible to ensure timeline readiness or to pivot when necessary. Other duties as necessary. SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE Bachelor's degree in Product Management, Marketing or Business, or have specific Product Management Training. 5-7+ years' work experience contributing to product devel