Product Manager

Job Title: Product Manager  

Location: Midlands

Job Sector: Lighting

Job Type: Marketing

Salary: £35,000 - £50,000

Job Reference: RI/00054T

Job Description:

Recruiting for a Product Manager to develop my clients ranges within cookware and pet as they diversify their categories.

This is a maternity contract role responsible for:

• Driving NPD Process. Implementation through Asia team coordinating budgeting, briefs, prototyping, final samples, pilot runs and certification/patents.
• Ensures optimum co-ordination of activities to meet the deadliness and development commitments.
• Has primary responsibility for ensuring that individual new product development projects are integrated into the sales strategy.
• Responsible for the management of product portfolio information and lifecycle analysis.
• Works collaboratively with sales support team to communicate product availability.
• Collaborates and pitches with sales support team commercial ideas for customers.
• Acts as legislation, technology and compliance expert.
• Negotiating prices.
• Identifying trends, preparing competitor analysis, benchmarking and proposing commercially interesting for their product portfolio.

About the Company:

• An established lighting company and BHETA member my client work with large DIY retailers with a range of products but are at an exciting point of diversifying their product offering.
• My client are investing in new categories and expanding their ranges.

Key Skills/Experience Required:

Experience working within the cookware or pet sector is essential with a min. 2-5 years’ experience developing and/or sourcing products from Far East.

• Experienced in various retail channels, ie DIY, Grocery, high street, distributors
• Excellent Project Management skills
• Skilled at presenting In front of customers
• Thrives in a fast paced environment.
• Personal commitment to on time delivery
• Proficient Microsoft Office skills e.g.; Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Travel to China is required.

Contact: Rebecca Isaac

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