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Product / Innovation Manager

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
England, Tyne and Wear, Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
12 Sep 2018

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Business Sector
Non Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Category Management, Marketing

Job Details



Better Placed are proud to be working with a prestigious Consumer business who are leaders in their product area. Their innovation is delivered through one simple principle, putting the customer at the heart of every decision they make, resulting in outstanding design and functionality that consumers love.

The Opportunity:
  • Build the innovation pipeline in partnerships with category
  • Deeply understands consumer insight for the product and own consumer product testing
  • Creative build landscape solutions and reason to believe to solve the unmet needs of our consumers
  • Owns and builds the holistic design & artwork brief based on insight and business need
  • Create the business model including capital & scale with partners
  • Benchmark new products vs competitors, developing claims territories, claim story, evidence and demos
  • Scout for new consumer products and materials (both soft and ridged)(, from adjacent partners to inform innovation pipeline
  • Owns the product specification, form, function, dimensions, IP and meeting of regulations & standards
  • Delivers products into first production, on time and in full.


The Individual will:
  • Understand, empathise and embody the consumer through the development process
  • Apply creative tools and thinking to build our innovation pipeline
  • Make connections between materials, technical routes, design direction and our business needs.
  • Always looking for inspiration in the market and from consumers
  • Technically literate, to support or engineering and supply chain
  • Appreciate and challenge costs; understand business models.


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Company

With an enviable client list of blue chip FMCG businesses, Better Placed focuses on the recruitment of Sales and Marketing professionals across the UK. Working from offices in Leeds and Manchester, our team of highly experienced Consultants have built relationships with a wide range of companies in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands as well as elsewhere in the UK.

In many cases we are preferred supplier to these businesses operating on an exclusive basis. We operate at all levels from graduate through to Director and our team are widely acknowledged as specialists in their chosen vertical markets.At Better Placed we focus on our candidates as much as our clients and we understand that failure to do so will slow the rapid growth that we have seen since our inception in 2002. Our track record of maintaining long term relationships with both candidates and clients is testament to how seriously we take this and is a fundamental part of what we stand for.

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