Assistant Product Manager, Adult

We are North America’s largest book distributor with over 70,000 customer store locations. We move over 325,000,000 books per year and work with over 700 retailers and 500 publishers. If you want to end every day knowing that you helped deliver a book into the hands of readers across America, let’s talk. We are currently recruiting for an Assistant Product Manager, Adult based out of our corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. The position is eligible to participate in a hybrid schedule.

The Assistant Product Manager supports the presentation and planning of trade publisher products and provides day-to-day liaison for Product Managers with the vendors, marketing, inventory, and sales teams.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Manage Line Review and Seasonal Solicitation process.
• Manage Planogram room including changeover of retailer planograms and requesting samples.
• Assist Product Managers on a project request basis.
• Ensure planogram integrity and accuracy for planograms within areas of responsibility, including correct in store dates, product mix, store lists, and prepack set ups while following established planogram input standards and requirements.
• Coordinate with product managers to execute planogram changes due to in store date changes, drop-ins, title drops, available inventory, customer requests, or any other scenarios requiring planogram maintenance.
• Attend publisher product presentations and prepare reports for product managers to reference during presentations.
• Assist in the preparation of customer product presentations, including creating, saving, and organizing presentation materials, samples, and reporting.
• Pull weekly sales/buying reports for product managers and ad hoc reports for analysis.
• Help build and maintain long-term relationships with our customers and publishers.
• Manage product samples: requesting, unpacking, staging, and shipping to customers. 
• Other duties may be assigned, directed, or requested.

What You Will Need:

• High school diploma or general educational development (GED) diploma or certificate required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field is preferred.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in product management is preferred.  
• Strong to advanced experience in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills – in person, phone, email, presentations, etc.
• Adaptive, team player, and aggressive problem solver
• Creative thinker with strong analytical skills
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively.
• High energy level with ability to keep multiple projects on schedule.
• Solid attention to detail and ability to multitask. 
• Team-oriented, hardworking, open-minded, and flexible.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to speak with all levels of the organization and outside partners.
• Ability to create sales analysis reports and product presentations. 
• Must be proficient in basic mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
•  Ability to analyze sales documents to identify trends and successful product performance.
• The work performed is in an office environment.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate at low decibels.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced, team environment.
• Ability to travel to trade shows, presentations, customer location, and corporate facilities as needed. 

Hourly Rate: $24.03/hour - $25.00/hour

ReaderLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. EOE/Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran.

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