Senior Product Manager

Alliance Automotive Group UK & Ireland is a leading distributor of passenger and commercial vehicle parts to motor factors, garages, franchise networks and public services throughout the UK and Ireland.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our busy team based at the Milton Keynes Head office.

This role offers a competitive salary and requires previous experience in a similar background.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, utilising a range of agile methodologies.
• Work closely with the head of the department and contribute to the overall product strategy and roadmap.
• Line manage Product Managers ensuring their professional development.
• Direct, motivate, engage and challenge the team to deliver high quality, appropriate, creative and effective products and services to agreed performance and quality standards.
• Set measurable goals for your product managers and report against these using data to demonstrate progress against benefits and ensuring products are aligned to the service, product portfolio and strategy.
• Create, communicate and iterate a product plan and vision, in line with the service or wider product roadmap, that is compelling to your team and stakeholders.
• Develop a product backlog, identifying priorities based on data and evidence.
• Manage the complete product lifecycle from New to Range right through to timely removal from stock.
• Play an active role in the product manager community, sharing your learning, developing your own skills and knowledge and celebrating progress made by other people in your team.
• Oversee your team with implementing and maintaining optimal stock levels, including internal re‑distribution of stock.
• Forecast stock levels.
• Negotiate with suppliers.
• Carry out supplier benchmark analysis including pricing and cross‑referencing.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with suppliers.
• Work closely with stock controllers to re‑source any out of stock items.
• Conduct supplier stock cleanses, provision release and share regular KPI information on stock.
• Handle technical queries.
• Work closely with the Marketing team to promote internal and external brand awareness.
• Act on all lost sales logged within your portfolio and provide responses to branches.
• Monitor branch bought‑out parts to determine if regional sales warrant inclusion into stock.

Qualifications

• Ability to motivate and lead a successful team.
• Strong computer literacy, particularly in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working within the automotive aftermarket.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Capability to build and develop productive relationships with internal business partners and externally.
• Good analytical skills to solve complex problems and make timely decisions based on product or service vision and outcomes.
• Flexible approach, willing to embrace new ideas and adapt to changing situations and requirements.
• High level of commercial awareness.
• Strong technical knowledge of vehicle components.
• Experience using MAM Autopart.

Alliance Automotive Group is an equal opportunities employer.

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