Category Manager

4ocean is on a mission to save the world’s oceans, and we are looking for a Category Manager to help us advance our cause. 

About 4ocean
 
4ocean is a purpose-driven business. We clean the world’s ocean and coastlines while working to stop the inflow of plastic by changing consumption habits. Unlike many other environmentally-focused companies, we are not a nonprofit, and believe in creating sustainable business solutions to achieve our goals rather than relying on donations or grants. 

We were founded in 2017 by two surfers who dedicated themselves to cleaning the ocean and working to end the ocean plastic crisis. They launched the company by creating a handmade bracelet and promising to pull a pound of trash for every bracelet they sold. With the money raised from the sales of these bracelets, we have been able to employ hundreds of people to clean the ocean full-time and pull over 5 million pounds of trash from the ocean and coastlines. 

Bracelet sales are just the beginning. We are building an assortment of high quality, sustainably-made products that will help people reduce their dependence on single-use plastic, reuse the materials we collect from the ocean, and celebrate the 4ocean brand and ocean-conscious lifestyle. 

Beyond our products, we combat the ocean plastic crisis through technology, cleanups, influence, and education. Our ocean clean-up operations, currently in the U.S., Haiti, and Indonesia, are meticulously documented and audited for transparency, and we are regularly expanding to new locations and deploying new clean-up technologies. 

About This Position

We are looking to add another Category Manager to the team.  This role will be located in our recently-opened Austin, Texas office in Penn Field on South Congress.  

Reporting directly to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) as part of the New Product Development (NPD) team, you will work closely with 4ocean leadership and your NPD peers to create and implement our new product roadmap. 

This includes category market research, product roadmap development, product briefing, new product forecasting, pricing recommendations, and leading the go-to-market planning process. You will work closely with internal and external teammates, including product design, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, brand marketing, finance, and sales. 

Other fun stuff you’ll get to do:

  • Strategy:  researching product trends, competitors, and customer demand, to develop strategies for new or updated products to improve our line
  • Monitor category/product performance:  Watching category, product, and channel performance metrics and reporting top level product analytics
  • Cross-functional influence & leadership: utilize influence skills to work with a cross-functional team of product development, marketing, and supply chain professionals providing leadership to execute strategies
  • Product lifecycle management: from strategy to product selection to procurement to end-of-life, you fully understand the product life cycle and its related processes
  • Project management: working with product development, procurement, and marketing teams, you will plan and execute product and category strategies requiring strong project management skills
  • Participate in inventory management:  Staying abreast of inventory levels, working with purchasing to keep appropriate stock levels, and liquidate excess inventory as needed
  • Financial analysis: strong analytical skills, including knowledge of product math (pricing, COGS, margins, ROI) and category financial analysis (sales, margin, turns, etc)

Qualifications

  • A college degree in Marketing, Business, or other relevant field is required
  • Definitely need to have a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Category Manager, Product Manager, PLM, or related role for a consumer product company
  • Product Management experience in a passion / lifestyle brand preferred
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner with various levels of leadership within the organization
  • Comfort in a fast-paced, always changing start-up environment
  • Team-first, optimistic, solution-driven orientation
  • Drive to play an important role in a business that makes a difference in the world
  • Personal passion for sustainability and cleaning the world’s oceans
  • It is also imperative that all new 4ocean employees naturally live and embrace our core values: 
    • Ocean first
    • Transparency 
    • Thing big, act quickly 
    • Nudge don’t judge 
    • We’re in this together 
    • Get stoked! 

4ocean LLC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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