About Berry
At Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY), we create innovative packaging and engineered products that we believe make life better for people and the planet. We do this every day by leveraging our unmatched global capabilities, sustainability leadership, and deep innovation expertise to serve customers of all sizes around the world. Harnessing the strength in our diversity and industry-leading talent of over 40,000 global employees across more than 250 locations, we partner with customers to develop, design, and manufacture innovative products with an eye toward the circular economy. The challenges we solve and the innovations we pioneer benefit our customers at every stage of their journey. For more information, visit our website, or connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
The role drives the development and execution of both short- and long-term strategies for industrial film product lines. Works closely with segment/functional leaders, sales personnel, R&D, and manufacturing to assist in driving overall product line profitability and efficiency.
Responsibilities:
Strategy:
- Work cross functionally to update, communicate and implement the strategic vision for the business.
- Identify internal and external business needs along with growth opportunities.
- Define and develop strategic investment plans to support growth and profitability improvement.
- Understand the market requirements and consumer trends to inform and shape the strategy.
- Conduct market research to drive innovation and growth.
- Gather competitive intelligence to set product requirements and differentiated value propositions.
- Provide product and pricing recommendations for new opportunities.
- Participate in customer meetings and trade events to drive growth.
Multi Generation Product Planning:
- Develop and execute 1-year and 3-year product development roadmap for product line effectiveness, growth and profitability.
- Define and develop next generation products, collaborating with Sales, Technical and cross-functional teams.
- Manage allocation of technical resources to the most impactful projects.
- Manage all aspects of new product launches and cross customer promotional opportunities.
- Provide oversight for product line specific competitive information.
Product Line Profitability:
- Manage new product and customer pricing and profit, collaborating with Finance, Operations, Sourcing, Supply Chain and Sales.
- Monitor market pricing and provide input on competitive landscape.
- Champion cost-reduction projects; manage product mix and margin erosion on mature items.
- Identify changes in equipment and process technology to improve cost position.
- Work with Supply Chain for raw material sourcing, validation and cost-improvement.
Support of Existing Business:
- Collaborate with Sales leadership for top target growth (current and new).
- Develop clear product positioning and communication strategies; collaborate with Marketing, manage product positioning tools, including web, trade, ad, sell sheets, research and presentations.
- Lead cross-functional teams to bring solution to resolve quality initiatives.
- Work with cross-functional teams to define service needs for new/changing/outgoing items.
- Maintain oversight for new and modified products; working with Marketing, Corporate Creative teams and Packaging Design in determining packaging requirements and art work.
Qualifications:
Competencies Required:
- Ability to extract item-level sales data, organize, analyze and draw conclusions.
- Ability to perform category analysis and category management.
- Understanding of profit & loss statement and how commercial and operational activities translate to P&L.
- Ability to organize, coordinate and direct cross-functional teams; commercial as well as operational.
- Ability to drive new product development and lead the commercialization of products.
- Team player with ability to influence without direct authority to consistently drive profitable growth.
Education, Experience, Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. MBA preferred.
- 7+ years Product Management in manufacturing experience or comparable combined experience in commercial and finance functions.
- Solid understanding of business functions Sales, Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sourcing, etc.
- High proficiency level with MS Office applications required.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, with demonstrated meeting facilitation skills.
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
- Ability to travel up to 30%.