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Hunter Douglas is the world’s leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we’ve defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally. We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world. What’s yours? Position Overview Plays a key role in establishing the vision and direction through all phases of the product lifecycle and executes objectives through cross-functional teams in the areas of product strategy, product development, and product quality.  Plays a key role in identifying and driving product initiatives that clearly link to short and long term goals.  What you'll do An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. (These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.) LEADERSHIP •    Basic ability to inspire and motivate others to take action and to influence cross-functional team and divisional leadership as needed. •    Proactively initiates important conversations. •    Takes initiative to identify areas of opportunity for inefficient processes or identifies areas of best practice which can be replicated. Works on cross-functional teams to eliminate non-value add work. Identify, develop and roll out change. •    Supports team members through mentoring. May have the opportunity to manage junior members of the team. TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION  •    Contributes to the team by being engaged and present at meetings, trainings and summits and demonstrates strong teamwork skills. •    Contributes by collaborating with other teams to recognize their needs. Genuinely values and recognizes the ideas, abilities, contributions and differences in others. •    Acts upon data, input and opinions from cross-functional team members to make informed decisions for the product line. •    Listens to, solicits and acts upon feedback from cross-functional team members regarding changes or decisions to better understand impact to timelines, cost or product specifications.  COMMUNICATION •    Solid presentation skills. Solid ability to create visual presentation content. •    Effectively communicates through verbal and written communication providing support for complex product related needs.  •    Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills. •    Demonstrates the ability to clearly and effectively communicate and document requirements.  PROJECT MANAGEMENT •    May lead multiple medium to large scale projects and advise on small scale projects led by junior members of team. •    Demonstrates the ability to productively lead and facilitate small meetings. Supports facilitation of large meetings. •    Receives minimal guidance to assist in prioritization of tasks within a project. •    Intermediate knowledge of Project Management tools. NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT •    Participates and assists with ideation process for projects; specific product and/or specific needs. •    Demonstrates basic understanding of product development processes and procedures. •    Creates produ