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Product Manager Trainee | Leggett & Platt
The Tone:
This is a full-time Product Manager Trainee role at Leggett & Platt, located in Conover, NC. Leggett & Platt is a global, engineered products manufacturer with a 130-year heritage, committed to enhancing lives by delivering quality products and offering empowering careers. Known as “The Components People,” the company is a leading supplier of a wide range of products and components, from mattress springs to aerospace tubing, with divisions like Hanes Geo Components specializing in geosynthetic and environmental solutions. This supply chain-focused role offers an early career professional the opportunity to learn the business directly from key management, make decisions that influence overall company performance, and drive strategic growth within the Hanes Geo Components division.
The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Conover, NC
• Mission: Learn the business, make impactful decisions, build relationships, and drive strategic growth within a supply chain-focused product management context for geosynthetic and environmental products.
What You’ll Actually Do
• Working Capital: Fine-tune working capital management skills to optimize financial performance.
• Strategy: Establish and execute market and product strategies for assigned portfolios.
• Relationships: Develop and nurture key relationships with both suppliers and customers, including domestic and international travel.
• Product Management: Forecast demand, manage purchasing, analyze product costs, and optimize product positioning for sales growth and profitability.
• Development & Quality: Coordinate new product and market development efforts while assessing and implementing improvements in product and service quality based on customer requirements.
The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field of study.
• Experience: Early career professional seeking to learn and grow in a supply chain and product management focused role, with willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Skills: Strong analytical skills and the ability to effectively communicate; demonstrated capabilities in negotiation, marketing, and selling.
