Associate Product Manager

Associate Product Manager

Whether you're just beginning your career or have years of experienceyou've come to the right place! Working at Alto-Shaam means you're a part of a passionate team working together towards one goal.

Since 1955, Alto-Shaam has pioneered industry-leading commercial foodservice equipment that anticipates and responds to our customers' needs. Our solutions help foodservice businesses like Sendik's Food Market and Saz's Hospitality Group enhance their menus while providing a greater return on their investment.

Our world-class products are made in a world-class facility. Alto-Shaam's headquarters and manufacturing space is dynamic, clean and safe for all.

As a family company, we also take care of our people by providing market-leading benefits:

• Earn an annual bonus on your gross income, which has averaged 15% over the past five years
• Low Cost premiums for full coverage healthcare with wellness participation
• 11 paid holidays and generous earned PTO
• Advancement opportunities to grow through our career ladders program
• Tuition assistance to pursue a degree or certification
• Fitness reimbursement for gym memberships, classes, or training sessions
• Biannual performance reviews with yearly merit increases
• Annual free lunch with the company president to celebrate your work anniversary

Job Description

The ideal candidate for an Associate Product Manager would be able to do the following:

Product Management Support

• Support the Senior Product Manager team across assigned halo categories throughout the product line life cycle, from strategic planning through tactical execution.
• Assist in maintaining product roadmaps and in gathering the voice of the customer organizing dealer, consultant, and end-user feedback into usable insight.
• Build and maintain competitive comparisons, product matrices, and specification data that support product differentiation and business-case development.
• Develop into a product expert on assigned categories supporting sales force and distribution network training, and participating in customer-facing sales support alongside a Senior Product Manager.
• Monitor the competitive landscape and proactively share findings with the product management and sales organizations.

Pricing Responsibilities

• Serve as a key resource within Alto-Shaam's ERP environment (Oracle) for product pricing data supporting list pricing setup, pricing structures, and discount management, and helping ensure pricing records remain accurate, complete, and current.
• Partner with the Director of Pricing & Product Management to help build and maintain the Pricing Roadmap, contributing the analysis that shapes forward-looking pricing strategy.
• Help identify gaps in our pricing relative to the competitive set, along with sources of margin leakage, and bring forward recommendations to close them.

Analytics, Tools & AI

• Use Alto-Shaam's approved AI tools to accelerate competitive research, data summarization, and documentation; build and share repeatable prompts and workflows so the wider team benefits.
• Identify and propose automation opportunities within pricing operations, and help set the standard for responsible, effective AI use across Product Management.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, finance, economics, engineering, supply chain, or a related field.
• 03 years of professional experience in product management, pricing, finance, analytics, marketing, or sales support. Relevant internship and co-op experience will be considered.
• Working proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; comfort learning ERP and quoting platforms (Oracle and AutoQuotes preferred).

Skills & Attributes

• Quantitative aptitude. Genuinely enjoys numbers, math, and working through a problem to a defensible answer.
• Attention to detail. Treats data accuracy as a personal standard; builds checks into their own work.
• Curiosity and drive. A self-starter who asks why, teaches themselves what they need, and moves work forward with limited direction.
• Presence and communication. Confident and credible in front of sales teams and senior leadership; explains analysis in plain, decision-ready language.
• Appetite for AI. Actively interested in learning and applying AI tools such as Claude to everyday analytical, research, and communication work with sound judgment about where they help and where they do not.

Additional Information

We are looking for team-members that exemplify and live our High FIVE values:

• Highest Quality: Are you detail-oriented and ensure the accuracy of your work?
• Win Together as a Family: Do you exceed expectations by being attentive and going above and beyond?
• Unleash the Innovative Spirit: Are you passionate about finding solutions to streamline and enhance the way you and your peers work?
• Be a Helpful Voice: Are you a positive person who wants to make an impact on others?
• Every Individual Makes an Impact: Are you a go-getter who takes initiative and pride in your work?

If you share our values, we want you to be a part of our Alto-Shaam family!