James Schott
Product Management | Corporate Strategy | BD | M&A
- Role
- General Manager, Signaling Products at Kidde Global Solutions
- Location
- Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Schott
Experience as an accounting & finance professional, marketing product portfolio manager, and corporate strategy professional - incorporating a broad business and analytical background to evaluate market trends and efficiently working cross functionally to drive growth and bring industry leading products to market.Versatile consumer retail / CPG product management professional with expertise in crafting product strategy and product specifications. Lead demand and financial forecasting activities, support supply chain functions, develop and execute pricing strategy, and work cross functionally to launch new OEM ODM products that improve profitability and generate significant revenue in big-box retail and E-commerce channels.A passion for developing innovative products and product strategies is what drove me into my career shift to marketing. Being more directly connected to the product as a portfolio manager along with having more direct opportunities to drive additional sales and profit is what interests me.
Experience
General Manager, Signaling Products
Jul 2025 — Present · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
Education
John Cabot University
Business, Italian
2007 — 2007
North Carolina State University
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2019 — 2022
Marquette University
Bachelor of Science, Business Adminstriation; Finance, International Business, Psychology
2005 — 2009
Skills
- Budgets
- Finance
- Sap
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Management
- Forecasting
- Analysis
- Consolidation
- Variance Analysis
- Corporate Finance
- Leadership
- Manufacturing
- Microsoft Excel
- Marketing
- Competitive Analysis
- Accounting
- Hyperion Enterprise
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