Product Line Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Summary

The Product Line Specialist working with product engineering, business development, and production teams is responsible for ensuring the products developed, produced or acquired, marketed and sold exceed the Customer’s expectations in each respective market segment while meeting the profit objectives. These products include; hard armor plates, helmets, shields and accessories utilized by law enforcement, corrections, security or as directed military personnel.

Essential Duties and Accountabilities

• Define the ballistics requirements based on market intelligence and end-users needs allowing the

Company to be the market leader in all soft armor markets.

Competencies

Cognition : Processes thoughts and experiences effectively from decision making to innovative thinking, analysis, judgments and problem solving. This includes examining information to draw conclusions, developing creative ideas and perspectives, making informed decisions considering all of the facts, goals, constraints and risks associated and resolving difficult challenges.

Communication : Communicates clearly with others avoiding ambiguity in all aspects of communication from speaking to writing, listening, and reading. This includes expressing ideas and facts orally and in writing, understanding and learning from what others say and grasping the meaning of written information.

Interaction with Others : Communicating and reacting with co-workers appropriately to maintain a

professional environment. This includes encouraging others and furthering Company objectives, building constructive working relationships consisting of acceptance and respect, promoting cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and embracing a work environment that appreciates diversity.

Personal Effectiveness : Incorporating all personal resources to achieve work objectives the most efficiently from accountability to adaptability, customer and safety focus and continual learning. This includes taking responsibility for actions, quality and timeliness of work, adjusting to changing business needs, conditions and work responsibilities, maintaining customer satisfaction with the products offered by the company, adhering to all workplace standards, regulations and practices and showing an ongoing commitment to self-improve.

Management : Structures and directs others to ensure Company goals are met from coaching, leading, organizing and self-managing. This includes supporting all co-workers growth by giving feedback, instruction and encouragement in order for them to better succeed. This also includes promoting Company objectives and demonstrating the way to achieve them, coordinating ideas, prioritizing tasks by importance and deadline, keeping a quick pace without sacrificing quality, maintaining composure in stressful situations and tactfully handling challenges or tense interpersonal situations.

Qualifications

Physical Demands and Working Conditions