Skip to content

Open nowPosted 89 days ago

VP, Product Management & Consumer Insights

FXI104 open roles

Where
Aston, PA, USA
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowVP, Product Management & Consumer InsightsFXI · Aston, PA, USA
  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on FXI's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. FXI postings stay open a median of 1 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.3%7 days
  4. 19.3%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.1%60 days
This job: posted 89 days ago

FXI median: 1 days open

The posting

Job Title: VP, Product Management & Consumer Insights

Location: Aston, PA / Radnor, PA

Job Type: Full-time, Hybrid

Reporting to: Chief Product Officer

Direct Reports: Product Management team

Company Overview:

FXI is a leading producer of foam innovation in the Bedding, Furniture, Industrial, Home & Office, Healthcare, and Transportation markets. We have made it our mission to provide tailored solutions that delight our customers and consumers. With our corporate headquarters, high-tech research and development facility, and multiple manufacturing locations in North America, FXI has built a culture of innovation and achievement that is recognized by customers, suppliers and peers. Our products include finished goods, sub-assemblies, services, and raw materials for OEMs, fabricators, and retailers. You will find FXI's foam innovations inside, around, and under yourself in countless applications. Everywhere foam goes, FXI's innovations lead the way! Won't you join us?

Job Overview:

FXI is seeking an experienced Vice President, Product Management & Consumer Insights to lead the product lifecycle for the assigned product lines (Mattresses, Pillows and Soft Furniture). In conjunction with the CPO, this senior level role defines the product strategy and roadmap, ensures product excellence, and drives profitable revenue growth across the portfolio. The VP sets the product vision, builds and leads the product management team, and aligns functions across the enterprise to a shared strategy. As a key role provides market intelligence, pricing strategy, consumer insight, and go-to-market leadership while directing cross-functional teams to optimize speed to market.

  • Lead the assigned product line(s) and define the multi-year product portfolio strategy and vision across markets, brands, and channels. Overall leadership across retail (mattress, pillow, topper, soft furniture) and engineering solutions strategic categories. Will lead by example thru direct leadership in mattress product category management.
  • Partner closely with business lines, marketing, and sales to develop multi-year product strategies aligned with customer needs to ensure long-term, profitable revenue growth.
  • Create go-to-market strategy for product line introductions and refreshes, setting product development direction and new-product value propositions.
  • Develop and execute product roadmaps in partnership with product development, sourcing, procurement, and logistics for on-time supply chain operations, and establish KPIs by which to measure success.
  • Oversee the entire consumer centric product lifecycle—from concept and design through sample production, testing, forecasting, cost, mass production, promotion, support, and product end-of-life.
  • Lead the development, presentation, and continuous review of business cases; make evidence-based recommendations on the initiation and termination of projects.
  • Develop and present new-opportunity business cases to the Executive Team for approval, ensuring alignment with organizational growth and profitability targets.
  • Maintain authoritative market, competitive, and pricing intelligence, including benchmarking, to inform go-to-market strategy; oversee SKU rationalization as needed.
  • Implement customer segmentation strategies and gather customer feedback through account and channel managers to inform future product iterations.
  • Build and lead consumer learning capabilities—including voice-of-consumer research, usage and ethnographic studies, and end-user insights—to translate them into actionable product requirements.
  • Collaborate with product development to lead consumer-driven iterative development, using rapid prototyping, in-market and concept testing, and structured consumer feedback loops to accelerate speed to market.
  • Monitor and anticipate consumer market trends—including shifts in consumer preferences, demographics, sustainability expectations, and emerging end-use applications—to guide portfolio strategy, innovation priorities, and long-term growth opportunities.
  • Educate and enable sales on product lines, technologies, market trends, and the competitive landscape; attend customer meetings to present product strategy.
  • Foster cross-functional collaboration among Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Product Development and R&D to achieve product goals, and act as a liaison between technical and non-technical teams.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing product management team, providing project-priority direction to improve speed to market.
  • Assist business unit General Managers in achieving top-line and profitability goals.

Skills / Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on managing product lines or categories; experience in manufacturing or product development is advantageous.
  • Proven experience leading consumer insight and voice-of-consumer programs, including qualitative and quantitative research, ethnographic studies, concept testing, and segmentation initiatives that directly influenced product strategy and innovation pipelines.
  • 5+ years of product management experience, including direct leadership of teams and product portfolios.
  • Proven success managing a product portfolio throughout its lifecycle, from development through market launch.
  • In-depth understanding of the assigned product line(s) and the industries they serve.
  • Experience developing and executing product strategies, including positioning and value propositions.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence at the executive level.
  • Highly effective customer presentation skills and the ability to construct and pitch executive-level business cases.
  • Strong command of product pricing models to determine feasibility against organizational and customer goals.
  • Proficiency in using data analytics tools to measure channel performance and derive insights.
  • Advanced MS Office skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Total Rewards:

We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Basic and optional life insurance
  • Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Tuition assistance
  • Flexible spending accounts

Our Commitment to a Diverse Workforce:

FXI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FXI does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or based on any individual’s membership in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We support workplace diversity. We strongly believe that diversity contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

FXI is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FXI via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of FXI. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by FXI as a result of the referral or through other means.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against FXI's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.
  3. We apply on FXI's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.
  4. Every reply, sorted

    FXI's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.
  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.