Brand Manager

Tempur Sealy is committed to improving the sleep of more people, every night, all around the world. As a leading designer, manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of bedding products worldwide, we know how crucial a good night of sleep is to overall health and wellness. Utilizing over a century of knowledge and industry-leading innovation, we deliver award-winning products that provide breakthrough sleep solutions to consumers in over 100 countries. Our highly recognized brands include Tempur-Pedic, Sealy and Stearns & Foster. We hire people who have a passion for helping others find their best night's sleep. No matter what stage of your career, you can build your future at Tempur Sealy!

OUR COMPANY OFFERS GREAT BENEFITS, INCLUDING:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Competitive Medical, Dental & other wellness programs
• Disability and Life Company Paid
• Retirement Plan Options
• Generous Employee Purchase Discounts

Pay Range: $ 89,000- $126,000

What You'll Do (Essential Duties and Responsibilities):

This role is primarily responsible for strategically implementing the business strategy for a key area of focus, the Alternative Sales Channel, including the development and management of the Sealy Dreamlife collection. Additionally, this role supports the implementation of the total Sealy product strategy in the Alternative channels and select key retailers, such as Costco and Amazon. It may also have other, smaller responsibilities as dictated by business needs.

This individual will be the Sealy brand's advocate for their product category, ensuring that new and existing products enhance the brand and maintain the brand's positioning in the bedding market. The ideal candidate for this position can demonstrate their creative energy and passion for implementing product initiatives and launches.

In addition to product development and P&L management, key success attributes include a high level of curiosity and drive to champion consumer-led ideas through execution with cross-functional teams.

This channel is the highest growth potential channel for Sealy. This position will report into Josh Fenner, Director, Sealy Brand Management.

Insights and Strategy

• Responsible for translating business objectives into actionable, coordinated annual plans to deliver long term category growth.
• Leverages consumer insights and data to sell-in and drive strategic initiatives.
• Builds and maintains category expertise with a thorough understanding of the target consumer, competitive insights, customer strategies, and sales environment.
• Leverage insights and concept testing to refine product and concepts into winning definition for product projects, technology briefs, marketing initiatives.
• Analyze portfolio to help identify opportunities such as adjacent product categories and channel expansion / diversification.

Business and Product Management

• Manage category P&L, support S&OP and FP&A processes for Sealy's Alternative Channel business
• Understands drivers of any gaps to sales/profit performance and uses cross-functional relationships to recommend and implement a plan of action.
• Lead development of business cases for new products, promotions and operational projects, including estimating sales and financials.
• Responsible for understanding competitive landscape and making recommendations for how to win in the market via product, price, promotion and distribution.
• Uses collaboration and facilitation skills to build productive and powerful internal relationships to advance key initiatives.

Innovation and Product Development

• Accountable for innovation pipeline (concepts, prototyping, commercialization) for category. Manages health of the funnel relative to product roadmap and innovation priorities.
• Develops a winning product pipeline while balancing product innovation and financial targets in close partnership with Sales.
• Product project champion defining positioning and winning features/benefits, leading advisory groups, owning financial business cases.
• Serves as Brand Management lead on new product core teams partnering heavily with product development and operations to successfully design and develop winning new product on time, on cost, and on quality.
• Partners with marketing and communications team to translate insights, features and benefits into compelling marketing and advertising.
• Manage product lifecycle.

Channel and Customer Support

• Becomes the lead point of contact to Alt Sales for the Sealy brand.
• Partner to retail marketing and/or sales operations on brand or product-centric initiatives.
• Independently represents the brand/products in customer/channel meetings with top retail customers
• Established knowledge of key channel/customer P&L, sales processes, strengths and opportunities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What you'll need:

• Proven track record of delivering results in a large organization
• Excellent business acumen
• High level of curiosity with ability to solve complex problems
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong consumer focus
• Communicates persuasively, conveying complex information in a clear and concise manner
• Minimum of 6 years of product development or other relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in related field

Tempur Sealy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.