Product Manager-Licensing

Foxboro MA
, 
United States
15 July 2025

About us

We are looking for a Product Manager-Licensing to join our Juvenile Consumer Product Management team in Foxboro, MA. The Product Manager-Licensing is responsible for short/mid-term development of the product roadmap with a view to increase its market share and contribution to sales and margin.

This position works on site in Foxboro, MA 4 days a week (M-Thur. & Friday remote)

Dorel Juvenile is a dynamic and innovative company dedicated to understanding consumer behavior and market trends.

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

Your mission

The Product Manager-Licensing is responsible for short/mid-term development of the product roadmap with a view to increase its market share and contribution to sales and margin.

Responsibilities includes: driving multi-year product roadmaps,  driving licensing partnerships, product strategy solutions, full product line management of global brand both brick & mortar and e-commerce, and facilitating actionable requests to keep all projects on tight timelines. Works closely with all of marketing (research, brand, graphics) and product development (program management, industrial design, product engineers, quality, compliance, and fashion teams).

Key responsibilities

  • Support vision and strategy for the relevant category and/or product group, including licensing partnerships. Identifies product (B&M & E-commerce) opportunities based on in-depth analysis of trends, consumer and market data, as well as sales and retailer feedback.
  • Participates in the creation and implementation of three-year roadmaps.
  • Global Product Lead for specific categories and supporting efforts to drive the US segmented portion of the roadmap
  • Support efforts to manage the product portfolio including analysis related to adding, growing and exiting categories, sub-categories and SKUs
  • Ability to provide quantitative and qualitative inputs for the development of business cases and other financial assessments
  • Provide analytical support to assess growth and profitability of assigned category and product group, recommend initiatives based on that analysis
  • Build and maintain a robust assessment of current marketplace conditions. This will include constant analysis of market information and understanding the relevant consumer needs including sales (internal & external), retailers, e-tailers and other stakeholders.
  • Conducts market analysis (competitive landscapes and market overviews) on a consistent basis and reports to brand leaders, brand managers and sales. Creates market-data based questions for qualitative and quantitative research associated with them.
  • Manages the category margin requirements for respective new products.
  • Develop and display an understanding of what drives category performance, execute a variety of activities that support category P&L improvement. Manage the category margin requirements for respective new products.
  • Create product briefs driven from ideas on the product roadmaps and drives the process forward with help of Product Management. Responsible for updating product briefs when/if there is a scope change to active the primary marketing and brand goal objectives.
  • Influence and lead cross functional team to drive schedule Champion the cross-functional team members with the help of Product Management to drive the schedule. Inputs and facilitates checklist tickets to proper channels to drive products forward.
  • Develop and maintain close working relationships with Brand and Retail Marketing to execute commercialization plans that support annual brand and sales plans.
  • Plays a lead role in market launches for assigned category and/or product groups.
  • Additional duties as assigned.

 

Your profile

•    B.S. or B.A. in Marketing or Business preferred 
•    3- 5 years’ experience in a similar position, preferably in consumer goods working closely with big box retailers. 
•    Expertise in aligning global cross-functional teams to protect brand equity while expanding reach through licensing, and regional adaptation strategies.
•    Skilled in negotiating licensing deals, managing international licensors/licensees, and ensuring cohesive brand representation worldwide a plus.
•    Must have the ability to inspire people, within and outside of their immediate working environment to effectively direct and guide their respective teams.  
•    Must be an out-of-the-box thinker who is constantly looking for ways to improve processes, team and themselves.
•    Ability to think big picture yet understand the need for strong execution.  
•    Must have strong communication and presentation skills to effectively lead, influence and inspire others within the organization.  
•    Strong sense of “customer comes first” attitude.  
•    Must be a strong team player who has the ability to maintain a positive attitude through challenges and demanding deadlines.
•    Occasional domestic travel if required.

Are you ready to grow with us?

Dorel Juvenile provides people the invaluable opportunity to make a difference. To work on leading brands together with talented people across the globe, and to keep growing both personally and professionally.

Take the next step in your career and join our quest to improve the parenting journey for millions of families around the world.

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