Product Manager Interim

Our client, a leader within the retail sector serving over 7 million customers and growing across a number of locations, are currently looking for a Product Manager who will own the strategy and oversee the execution of the Seasonal product category for the group.

You will need to be a fresh thinker and team player who is passionate about your work, collaborating to solve problems, constantly challenging yourself to learn and innovate, and thrive on delivering an exceptional customer experience.

This role is a 12-month, fixed term contract covering the Group’s seasonal range which includes the product portfolio of Calendars, Cards & Gifting. Ideal start date as soon as possible.

The impact you’ll make within the team:

• You’ll define the standards for product quality and develop clear guidelines to ensure we consistently deliver on these standards by collaborating with key stakeholders across the business.
• Collaborate with teams across the business to ensure the strategy is understood and executed, working closely with Digital Product, Product Marketing and Manufacturing, Fulfilment, Commercial and others.
• You’ll be passionate about our products and the value they offer to customers; you’re goal oriented and focussed on delivering best in class customer experiences.

Key responsibilities:

Create and evolve the Seasonal Physical Product Strategy for the Group

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure we have the required resources able to prioritise work on your category to deliver the strategy.
• Recommend investments/ product opportunities as input to the annual OKR process.
• Set the foundation for continuous improvements via a testing and learning framework to inform future decisions for the category.
• Identify and execute improvements to our physical products to help us move closer towards our sustainability goals.
• In collaboration with Product Marketing, develop product positioning and storylines- ensuring the development and communications teams fully understand what needs the products satisfy for customers, how the products are differentiated in the market, and what communications strategies will resonate with customers.

• Product quality management

• New Product Innovation and Introduction

• Packaging Strategy and Standards

• Customer creation experience

Must Have Experience:

• Demonstrated experience working on cross functional projects within a complex organisation.
• Strong execution & communication skills- an ability to synthesise information, to break a problem into its component parts, to prioritise by value, to efficiently manage a meeting, to communicate decisions clearly and effectively.
• Candidate must have minimum 3 years of experience in pan-European / global eCommerce environments.
• Strong understanding of strategy, research, product development and innovation, range architecture and product positioning.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into useful insights.
• An understanding of the process to enable change – Harmonisation, Innovation and Simplification between departments, Product-Tech-Manufacturing-Marketing
• Experience working within a multi brand portfolio business.
• Understanding of the printing industry and manufacturing process

 

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