Product manager, consumables job description

At NASCAR, you will find a community of passionate individuals who care about our sport and are united in seeing it grow.

NASCAR seeks a talented professional to join in the position of Manager, Licensing and Consumer Products based in Charlotte, NC.

The Manager, Licensing and Consumer Products manages the day-to-day activities of the NASCAR and NASCAR Team Properties (NTP) categories of trackside merchandising, inline fan gear apparel and headwear, apparel accessories, and segments of the Walmart DTR program- and other classifications (inside and outside of NTP). The Manager also oversees trackside line development processes for NASCAR-owned tracks, as well as additional programs and relationships, as assigned.
Duties include but are not limited to:

* Manage licensing functions, including product development, approvals, renewals, royalty gathering, forecasting and reporting for assigned categories
* Create, identify and pursue business opportunities in assigned categories
* Oversee legal, forecasting and accounting tasks related to licensing efforts
* Work with venue partner (currently Legends) on day-to-day merchandise line development of NASCAR and Track branded merchandise lines at NASCAR-owned facilities
* Work with online partner (currently Fanatics) to ensure product placement and growth
* Work with various track-based partners (currently Legends, SMI, E2, Cruisin') to ensure product placement and growth
* Secure partner credentials
* Entertain clients at events
* Percent of travel required: 15%

Required skills / experience:

* Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in licensing, account management, merchandising, retail development, sports licensing/brand management.
* Proficient on Company-provided hardware and software.
* Advanced Proficiency in Power Point and Excel preferred
* A strong working knowledge of apparel line development and production, retail mathematics (Cost, Retail, Gross Margin, Sell-Through, etc.)

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Learn more about this role and our team by applying at www.careers.nascar.com for consideration.

We are a company unlike any other. We want you to bring your experience, skills and passion to our close-knit, high-energy environment in which our employees thrive and where you can prosper. We know the key to our success is our employees and we offer highly competitive salaries, a solid benefits package focused on wellness, and opportunities for you to grow and develop both personally and professionally. It won't take you long to find out that you are on the right track here at NASCAR!

NASCAR is committed to fostering a diverse work environment where all employees feel valued and empowered. NASCAR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). We seek to attract and retain the best qualified people available. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any basis that is protected by applicable law except where a bona fide occupational qualification exists.

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At Forward we are on an ambitious mission to rebuild healthcare, the country's most important and most broken industry, from first principles. We want to create the world's most advanced personalized healthcare platform from the ground up, combining hardware, software, and doctors under one roof.

We plan to be the world's first doctor dedicated to your long-term health and the first to serve a billion people with healthcare for free. Since launching in 2017, we have experienced hyper growth - opening an additional 10 locations across the country (and counting), rolling out Forward at Home in just over a month, launching our doctor-led programs in March of 2021, and we are just getting started!

Our founders are former executives and engineering leaders from Google and Uber and strongly believe in building strong connections with every employee. In fact, it's not uncommon that you'll have a 1:1 with our CEO, or eat lunch with our Head of R&D. We take pride in investing in our people's development.

We're also lucky enough to be funded and advised by some of the world's top investors -- Founder's Fund, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet Chairman), Marc Benioff (Salesforce Founder), and Garret Camp (Uber co-Founder).
So what are we looking for?
We are looking for Product Managers that are interested in:Moving healthcare from a service-based industry dependent on human labor to a tech driven product that scales Designing the processes and infrastructure that will drive the healthcare platform of the future Leading interdisciplinary functional teams of designers, engineers, doctors and operators to reimagine every health interaction and rebuild healthcare as a product from the bottom up Challenging yourself by working on a massive scope (seriously, many of our products could have been their own startup - we built our own telemedicine app, exam room screen, body scanner and electronic medical record system) Working on an inspiring team alongside founders, PMs, designers, and engineers hailing from top companies like: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber, Palantir, IDEO
What makes a successful Product Manager at Forward? Someone that is: User-obsessed. You are deeply empathetic, constantly putting yourself in the shoes of our users (whether that be our patients or great clinical team) Impact-driven. You care about your impact upon the world. That means more building and less talking as you work towards something that has the chance of changing people's lives. A Renaissance (wo)man. You're curious, always learning, and as comfortable talking shop with a doctor as you are with a designer or engineer.A good helicopter. You can alternate between 10,000 foot and 10 foot views easily, and at the right time. Product vision? Fit-and-finish? All in a day's work.Creative. You don't need to be asked to think outside of the box...you know when to climb hills and when to jump them.Scrappy. You're a hustler who will get your hands dirty and protect your builders at every turn.A leader. You're kind, charismatic, and humble. Teams want to be in the trenches with you, and to build something great by your side.
What experience should you have? 2+ years of Product Management experience shipping impactful products and features BA/BS in STEM major required (CS, CE, EE, ME, symbolic systems, Physics, Math or Chemistry) Startup experience preferred
Sound like it could be a fit? We'd love your application and recommend exploring the following links to get a better idea of what we're working on:

Virtual Tour of Forward [YouTube]
Health Moves Forward [CEO Blog Post]
Series D Funding Funds Doctor-led Programs [TechCrunch]
Forward - What Quality Healthcare Should Look Like [Mashable]
Primary Care Start-ups Vying for 170B Market [Business Insider]
The Pivot to Virtual Care [Chief Medical Officer @ Stanford Medicine]
The Meaning of Trans Broken-Arm Syndrome [USA Today]

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of product life cycle from customer discovery through delivery and adoption.
• Understand and break down problems for our customers through user research, running experiments with prototypes, prioritizing what to build next by evaluating tradeoffs, and executing on the roadmap that contributes to the company's goals and vision.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, product marketing and analytics teams to make smart decisions that deliver for our customers
• Manage the day-to-day operations of a kanban team in partnership with an Engineering Manager via A/B test, specs, figma prototypes, tickets, etc.
• Monitor the market and develop competitive analysis
• Learn and adjust frequently to meet goals

Required background:

• 4+ years experience in web-based Product Management and demonstrated success as a previous Product Manager with a consumer facing product
• 3+ years experience with end to end project management exhibiting ruthless prioritization
• Proven ability to simplify complex business problems and find the solutions that our customers will love that fit within the confines of the business
• Superior communication skills: you communicate clearly and concisely and can tailor your message to your audience - translating between technical details, customer problems, and business impact of the team's work
• Strong ability to collaborate across functions and levels, seamlessly managing the priorities of multiple stakeholders
• A detail-oriented mindset and a bias for actions
• Strong time management skills and ability to work in ambiguous situations
• Strong problem solving, analytic, and decision-making skills. Able to ask the right questions, interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and formulate effective action plans to resolve issues.
• Knowledge of project management tools, like Jira or Trello
• Existing mobile experience

About our hiring:

We support equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

This is a full time position starting at $110,000 (dependent on experience)

Check us out at signpost.com