Join our Beauty and Wellness Team at Helen of Troy as our Product Marketing Manager (hybrid work onsite and from home), and make an immediate impact on our trusted brands: Revlon, Hot Tools, Bed Head, Drybar, Gold-n-Hot ,Curlsmith, Honeywell, PUR, Braun, and Vicks. Together, we build innovative and useful products that elevate people's lives everywhere every day!

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Work Location: Boston, MA

What you will be doing:

We are looking for a savvy, passionate and experienced Product Development Manager for beauty tools, who is passionate about launching new products in the beauty sector. This position will be critical, responsible for managing the daily activities of product development, evaluating, and developing new products and line extensions that fit with each brand’s portfolio, and managing the entire process from concept to launch.

They will work closely with brand marketing, sales, sourcing, operations, industrial design, and engineering as part of the product development cycle.

• Stay current on the latest beauty industry trends, consumer, and competitor activity to be able to generate product vision backed with data to inspire and inform briefs and handle product innovation ideation.

• Maintain strong product and brand focus keeping the customer top of mind. Manage and create new product development briefs that address consumer needs and ensure product experience. Maintain the product roadmap, keeping it always up to date.

• Manage the daily functions of product development, driving the project forward, ensuring all product development tasks are timely, aligned to and detailed.

• Maintain and handle timelines with key product development breakthroughs. Report out in phase reviews and dashboard meetings. Identify all project risks throughout the product development cycle while providing appropriate risk mitigation plans, resolving obstacles, recommending solutions, and providing visibility cross functionally to risks.

• Review and evaluate submissions and advise on redirects providing specific directions to design and engineering.

• Prepare and present projects for project/design reviews, tooling reviews, brainstorm sessions, weekly team meetings etc.

• Manage accurate product cost estimates for project financial justification and Cog’s analysis.

• Partner closely with industrial design and engineering on the entire product process, ensuring we meet timelines, submissions for internal and external testing, claim support and testing requirements.

• Manage the collaboration of communication between design, engineering, and manufacturing to ensure a successful, timely product launch.

Skills needed to be successful in this role:

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and to identify when assistance is needed and seek help from appropriate parties

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to problem solve

• Strong attention to detail and ability to switch between projects without sacrificing quality and accuracy

• Ability to harness the team’s technical creativity and transform it into specific design solutions that meet schedule, cost, and performance goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years in the personal care industry within Product Development

• Engineering - ME or EE engineering experience

• Solid understanding of plastics, injection molding and manufacturing processes typically found in consumer appliances

• Solid experience understanding and working with/around a complex patent environment

• Experience with DFMA and FMEA methodology

• Proficient with CAD, FEA, CFD, and other engineering tools

• Familiar with appliance regulatory and testing agencies such as UL, ETL, CE, CSA, ASTM, IEC, RoHS

• Authorized to work in the United States on a full time basis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in PD with beauty tools

Wondering if you should apply? Helen of Troy welcomes people as diverse as our brands. Have the confidence to come as who you are because your point of view, skills, and experience will make us stronger. If you're eager to share new ideas and try new things, we want to hear from you.

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Helen of Troy is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to developing a diverse workforce and cultivating an inclusive environment. We value diversity and believe that we are strengthened by the differences in our experiences, thinking, culture and background. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any protected basis.

We will provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application process. If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact Human Resources at (915) 225-8000.

Incorporated in 1968, Helen of Troy has grown into a leading global consumer products company with career opportunities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. We offer creative solutions for our customers through a diversified portfolio of well-recognized and widely trusted brands, including OXO®, Hydro Flask®, Osprey®, Honeywell®, PUR®, Braun®, Vicks®, Hot Tools®, Drybar®. Most of these brands rank #1 or #2 in their respective categories.

We boldly bring brands into our family, where we nurture what makes them great. We collaborate internally and externally, always striving to provide the consumer-centric innovation, operational excellence, scale, global reach, and stellar shared services to make them soar.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified. Management retains the right to add or to change duties of the position at any time.