Product Manager in Bradford

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.

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.
• 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.