Global Product Executive - London, United Kingdom - ghd hair

ghd hair
ghd hair
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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WHO ARE WE?


Iconic British brand ghd is a global leader in high end professional hair styling tools and the UK's number one recommended styling brand.

Loved by stylists and consumers, loved by press, and loved by the people that work for the brand


Merging science and innovation, with luxury beauty and style; ghd pioneers new technologies and beautiful designs to create the most technically advanced hair tools in the world.

Developed by leading scientists in the dedicated ghd R&D laboratories in Cambridge, ghd tools deliver safer for hair heat styling and have become an essential part of the daily lives of professional hair stylists and consumers globally.


A trusted and loved brand, ghd sells 2 million stylers every year and 5 iconic ghd products are sold every minute.

The award-winning ghd tools are used by 200,000 stylists around the world and sold in 30+ countries and more than 45,000 premium salons.

Renowned for game changing innovation and superior performance, at ghd we are on a mission to transform lives with the power of a good hair day


ABOUT THIS ROLE


The Global Product Executive is a key member of the ghd New Product Development team and is responsible for supporting company growth through assisting the development of the latest innovations and strategic launches.


The Global Product Executive will do this through a combination of administration, research, concept creation, product testing and project management as required for the development of new products and innovations.

The Global Product Executive will report directly into the Global Senior Product Manager.


JOB ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Product Development:


  • Assisting the Global Senior Product Manager in delivering the 5year plan for category innovations.
  • Supporting the creation of new product concepts through market, industry, and consumer insights as well as creative moodboarding and product name ideation.
  • Leading packaging artwork development with full ownership creating copy, coordinating the copy approval process crossfunctionally, managing amends and local market variants to ensure final copy is signed off and implemented on time.
  • Maintaining all copy files and ensure excellent version control; maintain a copy library for each category to ensure all copy information is easy to access in one place
  • Being a key contact with the regions and global markets on product and new project queries, as well as gathering global competitor information.
  • Collaborating with the brand team to coordinate global NPD sample sendouts and communicate with the regions.
  • Supporting the creation of key Presentations to Management team and markets.
  • Supporting the Global Senior Product Manager with the daytoday product management of projects, collaborating with the crossfunctional teams to ensure marketing deliverables are completed for project milestones.
  • Support the Global Senior Product Manager by maintaining the claims plans for NPDs.

Market Intelligence:


  • Develop and review trend reports for the beauty and tech industry, summarizing and relaying relevant findings to the Marketing team.
  • Analyze competition on a worldwide basis:
  • Conducting and upkeeping competitor reports
  • Maintaining competitor library
  • Upkeeping pricing trackers
  • Monitoring Social media trends.

Budget processing

  • Raise and receipt all Purchase Orders for the Marketing Innovation team using the finance system.
  • Upkeep the budget tracker providing regular updates to the team key to the management of the total Global Marketing spend.

REQUIREMENTS

Essential:


  • Experience: 6 months to 1 year+ experience (as intern or grad) within a marketing role, ideally in beauty, tech, or fashion.
  • Qualifications: Educated to degree level, having studied a Marketing, Business Studies, Business Management or Businessrelated degree.
  • Skills:
  • Basic project management skills with excellent organisation, a focus on meeting deadlines and the ability to juggle several projects at once
  • Strong communicator, with great interpersonal skills and ability to network and quickly build rapport #hp
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