Product Manager

What if your product decisions helped people celebrate life’s biggest moments?

We are recruiting for a global manufacturer and retailer who are looking to recruit a Product Manager.

The Product Manager is responsible for the execution and commercialisation of range builds and briefing product and creative in line with the Product & Range strategy. You will bring to life the creative vision and deliver it to market. You’ll develop and commercialise product (end to end solutions including partnering with marketing on POS and in store activation), build ranges in line with ranging principles in collaboration with the VM team.

Hours: Monday to Friday 35 hours per week

Location: Bradford

Responsibilities

Delivery of an insight led, market leading product range build.

Execution of the product strategy within a Value for Money matrix

Execution of range builds, within a range strategy including architecture, pricing, and fixture/display layout, including:

Ability to use shopping lists and sales data to identify product for range builds

Build within architecture constraints, make recommendations and capture data for financial roll ups

Ensure overall range is profitable and aligned to financial targets

Understand retailer strategy, shopper and market, and competitive landscape

Identifying product gaps at build and writing line level product briefs, in line with the creative vision

Collaborate with Marketing to deliver marketing activity to support product launches

Collaborate with supply partners on supplier SLAs (service level agreements) to deliver right first time, right quality, right cost & on time

Where relevant attend customer meetings, present range and provide commentary, and set up support for customer meetings

Where relevant, and in conjunction with Procurement, develop & nurture brokered publisher relationships to complement our range

Drive efficiencies through utilisation of global resources and common skus

In conjunction with Senior Product and Range manager, complete workbook ready for PO sign off

Identify efficiencies and improved ways of working across the team

Accountabilities of role

Delivery of specific range builds for in store or online

Product briefs in line with range gaps, VFM matrix & COPs parameters

Range builds and data capture (APO, price mix, caption mix, profitability)

Adherence to CDP (critical date path)

Input to the product development process

Indirect contribution to the business plan

Influencing EBIT and sale figures

Lifecycle management of allocated sku pool

To be successful you ideally need to have

Experience within a product development/marketing discipline

Experience delivering a strategy to fixed objectives and KPIs

Experience building product ranges and articulating the rationale behind selections

Experience writing line level product briefs – Creative collaboration

Experience managing internal stakeholders

Commercial acumen and experience of delivering profitable products within KPIs

Knowledge and experience of retailer range validation – APO, price and product mix, variance vs. previous

Knowledge and experience of costing and product pricing, sourcing, contract negotiations and supplier management

To be flexible, resourceful, agile and resilient, whilst staying focused on objectives and targets

Comfortable with insights driven decision making, data management and reporting for varying audiences