Junior Product Manager
- Employer
- Advocate Group
- Location
- Bedfordshire – commutable from St.Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes
- Salary
- Up to £35,000 plus benefits
- Closing date
- 18 Feb 2017
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Marketing, Sales
Job Details
Junior Product Manager
Up to £35,000 plus benefits
Bedfordshire – commutable from St.Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes
FMCG – consumer goods
VAC-23090
Are you looking to be part of a global FMCG business where you can develop your career as a junior product manager? Somewhere you can gain international experience, working across global markets? If so, please read on!
Operating across 100 countries, this global consumer products company is widely considered as one of the world’s leading employers with an extensive product portfolio. A few words to best describe them; ambitious, innovative and progressive, somewhere you can make a real impact.
Primary responsibilities:
• You will be responsible for providing support to the Product Marketing Manager
• You will gather, maintain and communicate competitor information to the sales force as well as running ad hoc projects
• It will be part of your role to communicate and handle product changes and execution of product launches
• Monitor competitors’ products evolution and spread relevant information internally
• Provide support to the Product Manager in preparing and updating sales force/ customer presentations
• Support the Marketing Manager in completing the marketing elements of tenders
The successful candidate:
• Must have B2B marketing experience – ideally within product management
• Ideally have a marketing degree
• Have an analytical mind-set
• Logical in thought process
• Be able to manage projects – in an organised, timely manner
• Competent in excel advance and adobe acrobat
Company
We are a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. Brand advocate representation, with a focus on inclusive hiring, is central to our ethos and ethics.
As talent partner to some of the most exciting global names, innovators, and challenger brands, we have a proven track record of not only sourcing top talent, but improving employer brand, candidate journey, and talent acquisition strategies. Our specialist consultants plug directly into your brand to act as your talent team, or work alongside your existing talent function.
Being consumer product-centric means that our candidate and client partners can draw on our deep networks, proven processes, and highly trained talent specialists.
Our aim is to: identify, engage, assess, and provide exceptional consumer product talent, always with the candidate journey at the forefront of mind.
What Do We Offer?
- 3:1 interview-to-placement ratio.
That means that, for every three candidates we have out on interview, one is getting the job.
- 96% employee retention.
Our retention rate is market leading – 96% of the people that we place are still with that organisation at least 12 months later.
- 92% right-first-time shortlists.
Of the placements we make in roles that we work exclusively (which is the vast majority), 92% are hired from our hired from our first shortlist.
- 28 days average time to hire.
From briefing to offer, our average turnaround time is 28 days.
Our Recruitment Solutions:
Search & Selection | Project Recruitment | Embedded Talent | Executive Search | Contract Recruitment | Market Mapping
Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next Recruitment Project:
📞 0333 772 7200
📩 workwithus@advocate-group.co.uk
💻 https://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Website
- http://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0333 772 7200
- Location
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The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB
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