Product Line Manager

The Product Line Manager is a key leader within the marketing organization. This role is responsible for delivering owned category strategy, P&L management, and in-market results focused on key growth categories including proteins, sauces, and sides. This position will build, coordinate, and execute strategic and tactical commercial plans across innovation and business continuity aligned with growth agenda. Candidate will lead cross-functional teams to identify strategic, data-backed growth opportunities grounded in internal and competitive market analyses, drive new product launches, build compelling sales stories, and manage the product life-cycles of their portfolio. With support from the Sales & Marketing Analyst, the Product Line Manager is expected to be highly hands-on with data and lead the strategic decision-making for their product line.

Strategic category planning driving transformational growth across channels including Consumer and Foodservice.

Drive portfolio excellence including assortment tracking, lifecycle management, and optimization of core, innovation, and seasonal/limited-time offerings.

Deliver innovation pipeline from insight-to-launch for assigned product lines; collaborates closely with

commercial functions to deliver innovation agenda including Culinary, Sales, and Commercialization.

Responsible for leading launch strategies that drive excitement behind the initiatives and sell them

Develops briefs for integrated communications, creative, branding/design, and market

Analyze business performance to identify and prioritize growth initiatives based on consumer/ customer, brand/category, research, and landscape analysis.

Go beyond reporting, interpret data to uncover the “why" and “so what” behind business

Collaborate with the Sales & Marketing Analyst for additional data mining, while remaining accountable for full analysis and strategic implications.

Act as the internal subject matter expert for assigned product lines, driving strategy through market insights, competitive intelligence, and culinary trends.

Partner across teams to ensure alignment on strategy, execution, and business

Lead product line pricing strategy to balance growth and

Partner with Sales and Marketing to create customer-facing messaging, launch assets, and training that enable commercial success.

Remote position

Less than 10% travel expected for events or meetings

Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.

Kettle Cuisine is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Kettle Cuisine are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Kettle Cuisine will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.