Are you someone that thrives in a fast-paced environment? Do you have experience in the lighting industry and the ability to help a rapidly growing company reach new heights? Are you a team player? This might be the job for you!
Since 1945, Keystone Technologies has been a leader in creating quality-driven lighting solutions for the industry’s top lighting fixture manufacturers and wholesale distributors. Based in the greater Philadelphia area, Keystone offers a full catalog of lighting products with more than 20 fulfillment centers across the United States. We aim to provide a casual and friendly work environment where teammates collaborate. As we have steadily grown and expanded our operations, we have continued to add more bright, energetic, hard-working team members who share our core values of professionalism, positivity, and dedication to delivering outstanding customer service.
As we continue to grow, we are looking for a qualified individual to serve as our company’s Product Manager for Indoor LED Lighting Fixtures. This position’s fundamental purpose is to ensure Keystone’s product offering remains innovative and competitive with the market.
The Product Manager will report to the VP of Products and Sourcing. They will serve as an integral part of Keystone’s Product Development team. Product Development is one of the most crucial departments in perpetuating our “Light Made Easy” promise to customers.
A typical day for a Product Manager includes:
- Working with global engineering, production, and sales teams to design, produce, and bring new high-quality lighting products to the market
- Ensuring our product offering remains optimized in terms of cost, lead times, and manufacturing efficiency
- Determining customers’ needs and desires by specifying and leading the research needed to obtain market information
- Working with sales personnel to assess the market competition
- Supporting customers with technical difficulties or queries
- Interpreting product details from engineering and producing user-friendly materials for customers
- Collaborating with the Marketing team to provide technical guidance for proper sales enablement functions, assist with packaging design, and proofreading technical content for all customer-facing print and digital marketing collateral
- Coordinating product safety certifications
- Soliciting feedback from the sales team for new product offering opportunities and working with internal product development resources to determine feasibility and options
- Providing technical feature competitive analysis on new product offerings to inform marketing and sales teams
- Creating selling tools, defining product features and benefits, differentiators, how to counter objections, applications of use, etc., to support the sales team and manufacturing reps in the field
- Assisting in content creation of technical documentation for product spec sheets (not content for marketing collateral)
This position is ideal for an individual who has experience in the lighting industry! A Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Business, Engineering, or a related field. The Product Manager role is a great fit for one who works well with a team and has the determination and drives to learn! We encourage you to apply if you are:
- Efficient with Microsoft Applications, specifically Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel
- Able to demonstrate the capability to manage time and prioritize tasks efficiently
- Able to be a positive team player
- Capable of communicating with multiple departments throughout the day
- Keen attention to detail
- A strong understanding of the lighting industry and lighting products is REQUIRED with at least 5 years of experience in a product management role
- A proficient verbal and written communicator
- Open to occasional travel, approximately 3 to 4 times a year
Keystone is a third-generation, family-owned business with a 75-year legacy in the lighting industry. Our family values honesty, hard work, and treating others with respect drive everything we do.
We strive to offer a work environment that is diverse, inclusive, and fun and a company culture that fosters engagement, collaboration, and personal growth and development for all employees.
In addition to our commitment to the employee experience, we provide medical, dental, vision, voluntary life insurance, employer-paid group life insurance, short-term disability, 401k plan, paid time off, and philanthropic opportunities.
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Keystone is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Keystone’s core values that drive the company’s success are:
- We are a customer service-obsessed company.
- We earn the trust of our co-workers, customers, and partners by acting with honesty and integrity.
- We bring a positive, can-do attitude to all of our efforts.
- We are a company that is easy to do business with in every aspect.
- We treat all associates, both internal and external, with respect and professionalism.
- We operate with efficiency and continue to find better methods for conducting business.
- We share our ideas, thoughts, responsibilities, and accountability to succeed as a unified team
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.
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