Product Launch Manager

Job Title

Product Launch Manager

Position Overview

Position Overview:

Shaw Contract is a global design leader in commercial flooring for some of the world’s most creative and innovative environments. Our vast, sustainable product offerings can be found in diverse markets such as workplace, healthcare, hospitality, education and multi-family dwellings; supporting the spaces in which we work, learn, live, play and heal. This role will lead product launches for Shaw Contract. Responsibilities include managing budgets and timelines, outlining and maintaining scope of work, and assisting with product training while maintaining connectivity to key stakeholders. This individual will work with cross-functional teams within the organization: product development, marketing, field sales, category management, quality control, operations and others involved in the product launch process. While working closely with the brand Creative Director, in-house Creative agency and managing relationships with external creative agencies. The Product Launch Project Manager must be an outstanding project manager that can both attend to process detail while leading their product launch teammates to meet project objectives in a timely and professional manner. We’re looking for a self-starter who is detail and task-oriented, social, and highly-motivated who can manage multiple product launches at a single time within a fast-paced, innovative, and design-centric organization. They must be able to navigate complexity and communicate effectively, in both written and verbal forms, to a broad, global organization. They need to be passionate about design, creative, meeting deadlines and driving results. Success is measured on meeting timelines, coordinating resources and communicating with key stakeholders. Additionally as a key conductor of each product launch, they must stay within budgets and create a positive impact of the work within our team, large organization, and industry.

Primary Responsibilities:

● Manage product launch workflow, schedule, and traffic of projects from concept to completion to ensure timelines and budgets are met.

● Lead product launch team meetings with design, creative, technical and other project stakeholders.

● Coordinates internal and external agencies on product creative with direction of the brand Creative Director.

● Provide regular and necessary updates on product launch timing and development to larger team and leadership.

● Communicate accurate and timely updates with the team, both written and verbal.

● Ensuring all resources are aligned at all key milestones on the product launch timeline.

● Have a positive impact on our work environment.

Requirements:

● 4-year business, marketing degree or relevant experience.

● Clear and concise written and verbal communication & relationship building skills.

● Excellent problem solver with a strong sense of ownership.

● Must possess excellent organizational and planning skills with outstanding attention to detail

● Marketing and/or product development experience in the flooring industry desired.

● Well-developed, effective project management skills.

● Strong presentation skills.

● Analytical thinker focused on driving results.

● An eagerness to learn and grow with the ability to be flexible in a fast-paced environment.

Although our highly-distributed workforce can be found around the globe, the Shaw Contract brand and this position requirement is based out of Cartersville, Georgia and works from our new highly-sustainable, world-class Create Centre facility, which will be home to product development and marketing for our commercial division, demonstrating our commitment to hiring the best talent. We hire humble, collaborative and ambitious people and give them endless opportunities to grow and succeed. Shaw Contract is the commercial design brand for Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a vertically integrated manufacturer that supplies carpet, hardwood, laminate, resilient, tile & stone flooring products and synthetic turf to residential and commercial markets globally. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, and with manufacturing in the United States, Mexico and China, Shaw is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $4.5 billion in annual sales and 23,000 associates worldwide.

Competencies:

● People: Build Trusting Relationships

● Strategy: Deliver Compelling Communications

● Strategy: Plan and Organize insuring on time and targeted deliverables

● Strategy: Demonstrate urgency for on time and targeted deliverables

Work Shift: 1 (United States of America)

Shaw is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.

Work Shift

8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM

Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.