Company Snapshot:
Born in Miami more than a quarter of a century ago, Tuuci is the global leader in premium shade and placemaking products for hospitality, commercial, and residential outdoor settings. From locations in North America, Europe and Asia, our teams strive to meet and exceed the Tuuci vision: to help people live their best life outdoors through inspiring design, enduring performance, and convivial service. We work in a fun, fast-paced, and diverse environment in which close collaboration and the spirited exchange of ideas are encouraged. Our culture supports our vision by encouraging creativity, driving excellence, and supporting personal growth and development.
Position Summary:
The Product Manager will be responsible for conducting market research and competitive analysis to inform our product strategies. This role will include providing detailed reports on market size, customer insights, and industry trends, helping to develop a clear understanding of user needs and future use-cases globally. The Product Manager will manage the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept through to discontinuation, and lead the product development tollgate process by creating and managing all necessary documentation and timelines. Additionally, formulating pricing and product positioning strategies, exploring new growth opportunities through diverse channels and segments, and supporting strategic sales initiatives by providing updates and insights to our sales teams.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide market, customer and competitive research reports on products, macro and industry trends, and market size.
- Ensure a deep user/customer understanding, develop key insights, and identify a clear POV of future needs, wants, and use-cases for global customers.
- Manage product life cycle through identification, introduction, growth, maturity, decline and discontinuation.
- Own the product development tollgate process, create required documents (including design, product, forecast, financials, requirements, opportunity, etc.), produce timelines and manage team to goals.
- Develop price & product positioning strategy and analysis within owned line and market.
- Develop strategy for growth via new channels, segments, and products.
- Support strategic sales opportunities and provide product updates to sales.
Skills and Requirements:
- Strong verbal and written presentation skills including the ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple way.
- Adept analytical and creative thinker with a design eye.
- Possess a macro mindset and healthy curiosity, demonstrating an ability to delve into intricate details and explore innovative solutions in the realm of product development.
- Market research: macro, industry, customer (commercial/contract, hospitality, residential), product.
- Tollgate/stage gate knowledge and ability to implement new processes.
- Proficient project management skills. (MS Project knowledge preferred)
- Experience developing and delivering compelling and elevated presentations individually and within a team selling approach.
- Ability to proactively achieve goals under shifting conditions and a variety of key stakeholders.
Education and Qualifications:
- 2+ years’ experience in product management, marketing, or new product development.
- 1+ years product management with furniture systems preferred.
- Traditional construction or prefabricated walls experience preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Tuuci offers:
- Welcoming friendly environment
- Culture that encourages diversity of thought
- Support for professional growth and development
- Dynamic and talented staff of creative professionals
- Collaborative environment that welcomes innovative ideas and allows you to make an immediate impact on the team
- Health benefits, matching 401k retirement plan, paid holidays, sick days, personal days
ABOUT TUUCI
For more than 26 years, Tuuci® has revolutionized outdoor living spaces with durable, innovative shade and furniture products featuring nautically inspired designs. Founded by Dougan Clarke in 1998, the Ultimate Umbrella Company, Inc., (simply known as “Tuuci”), was born from his seaside roots in Miami, where Clarke began his career as a marine outfitter for high performance yachts.
With a keen eye on design and a passion for form and function, Clarke applied his craftsmanship to the shade industry to create Tuuci’s unique brand of marine grade shade architecture. Today, Tuuci’s distinctive, award-winning parasol designs, luxury indoor-outdoor furniture, cabanas and pergolas, and space-making accessories are experienced around the world and sought by leading design professionals within the commercial, hospitality and residential design communities.
Globally headquartered in Miami, the company owns two additional manufacturing centers in Northern Europe and Southeast Asia, and operates showrooms in Miami, Chicago, Atlanta and The Netherlands.
Tuuci’s sense of community is a cornerstone of the company’s foundation, providing charitable outreach across a host of environmental and humanitarian concerns. The company’s mission is to help people live their best life outdoors through inspiring design, enduring performance, and convivial service.