Product Development Manager - Manchester, United Kingdom - Alex James Digital

Alex James Digital

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Our client are a fast growth business.

Overview:

This is a newly defined role to focus on product and managing NPD pipeline through to successful market launch.

Our client are offering a great opportunity to work with established market-leading Brands in an exciting and growing category, as they strengthentheir Manchester based marketing team.

With responsibilities across core categories and a specific focus on NPD, you will be fully involved in the delivery of growth plans.

Your role will involve:

Leading development of the NPD pipeline for brands and licenses across a range of categories
Project managing product NPD lifecycles and renovations across all stagegates, from opportunity identification to launch, meeting delivery deadlines accordingly.
Identifying product opportunities by proactively keeping up to date with latest market, trends, research and technologies.
Working closely with buying, sales, operations and brand marketing teams to ensure delivery of successful launches in line with brand and customer priorities.
Developing NPD business cases for approval that include consumer insight, commercial analysis, market mapping and SRP development.
Managing the Monthly Innovation Meeting to ensure process rigour and timely approvals, and aligning internal and external stakeholders to proposals.
Monitoring and reporting on NPD performance through analysis of market and sales data, proactively diagnosing issues and opportunities.
Effectively launching new NPD to sales teams, with insight driven sales packs and best in class marketing assets.

Key skills & experience:

A passion for product, ideally with experience in têxtile/fashion environment.
Project management able to independently run projects and lead cross functional teams to deliver results
Commercial awareness confident with numbers and an ability to sell concepts to sales teams and customers
Creative assessment experience of briefing design and packaging and assessing responses in line with brand guidelines and objectives.
Content writing skills an advantage
Organised and able to prioritise workload across multiple projects to meet fast deadlines.
Confident communicator able to influence at all levels both internally and with external.
Commercial awareness with a keen eye for detail.
Driving licence is essential
Great office environment

Excellent package on offer