The Product Line Manager will own the strategy, innovation, and go-to-market execution for the creatine portfolio to drive growth and profitability. This role involves managing the product lifecycle from concept to shelf while collaborating cross-functionally to optimize margins and portfolio performance.
Role Overview
This Product Line Manager is a key operator in scaling our RAW Creatine portfolio. This role owns the execution and evolution of a key building block in our company, turning category strategy into winning products, clear consumer narratives, and disciplined go-to-market execution. You will operate with urgency, commercial rigor, and a challenger mindset in this hyper-competitive category. Experience scaling a brand in the creatine space or similar category is a must.
This is not a passive coordination role. We are looking for a builder who can manage complexity, create clarity, and push products from concept to shelf with speed and precision.
What You'll Do
Strategy, Insight & Innovation
- Translate category strategy into a focused, long-term product roadmap that prioritizes growth, margin, and consumer relevance.
- Define clear target consumer segments and use cases for innovation, grounding new product development in unmet needs, performance benefits, and commercial opportunity.
- Help lead product ideation and concept generation, translating consumer insight, brand strategy, and business objectives into viable innovation pipelines.
- Actively monitor market trends, competitive launches, and consumer behavior to identify whitespace opportunities, portfolio gaps, and emerging marketing shifts.
Product Storytelling & Go-to-Market
- Build sharp, consumer-facing product stories that clearly articulate functional benefits and product benefits to cut through crowded creatine shelves.
- Partner with the GM to design and execute go-to-market strategies for new product launches, ensuring speed, alignment, and commercial readiness.
- Evaluate and size business opportunities to prioritize innovation and renovation launches based on revenue potential, margin accretion, and strategic fit.
- Set channel priorities by consumer segment, ensuring the right flavors, pack configurations, ingredient mix, pricing, and messaging are deployed across channels to maximize velocity and profitability.
Portfolio Performance & Margin Management
- Continuously track and report on portfolio performance using market and internal data, flagging issues early and translating insight into corrective action.
- Help build promotional calendars and develop channel-specific plans that balance brand impact, velocity, and margin.
- Work cross-functionally with Innovation, Finance, Ops, Commercial and Supply Chain to improve CM1, and drive contribution margin growth.
- Actively manage portfolio complexity by identifying underperforming or redundant SKUs and leading rationalization efforts to improve focus, efficiency, and profitability.
- Improve category and product line margins by shaping assortments toward margin-accretive SKUs and disciplined pricing, trade, and mix decisions.
Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership
Serve as the project management backbone for creatine product line, driving timelines, decision-making, and accountability across teams.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product management, brand management, or category management within CPG or high-velocity consumer brands.
- Proven strength in project management, with a track record of delivering complex initiatives on time and at pace.
- Strong commercial instincts with the ability to connect consumer insight to P&L impact.
- Experience supporting or leading multi-channel product launches.
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where priorities evolve quickly.
- Operates with a growth mindset: tests, learns, iterates quickly, and uses wins and failures to drive better personal and commercial outcomes.
- Highly analytical; cuts through noise, pressure-tests assumptions, and turns insight into decisive action.
- Required: Experience in sports nutrition, creatine, snacks, functional nutrition, or performance-driven categories.
What Success Looks Like
- Product roadmaps that are decisive, prioritized, and aligned to company goals and growth objectives.
- Launches that move fast, hit the mark, drive velocity and grow share.
- Tangible margin improvement driven by smarter portfolio, pricing and promotional decisions.
Our Leadership Principles
- Speed without sacrificing quality.
- Data beats opinions.
- Ownership beats excuses.
- Testing beats assumptions.
- Accountability is non-negotiable.
- Every problem has an owner.
- We do what's best for the client.
- We are builders, not caretakers.
- We hire adults who don't need to be managed.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: The base salary range for this position begins at $125,000 per year; final salary offer based on experience and skillset.
- Bonus: Annual bonus potential tied to employee performance.
- Insurance & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans.
- Retirement Savings: Plan for your future with a 401(k) savings plan featuring a company match.
- Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need with a flex PTO plan, sick time, and paid holidays.
- Extra Perks: Monthly stipend to spend on our products and gear, access to the RAW Athletic Clubs in Port St. Lucie and Stuart, FL, and discounts on our family of brands.
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