Assistant Global Range Selection Manager - Dewsbury, United Kingdom - UK Greetings

UK Greetings

Verified Company

Dewsbury, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Learn more about us and the role: Could you be our new Assistant Global Range Selection Manager?

An exciting part-time opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Global Range Selection Manager to join the John Sandsteam, working 30 hours per week over 4 days.

You'll be working with teams across the organisation, including personnel at the company's locations in the USA and Australasia.

Are you self-motivated with excellent communication skills and have a keen eye for market trends?If so, then this could be the role for you.

You should be a tenacious, confident self-starter, with an appetite for bringing new product to market.

Have a creative eye and a genuine interest in designled product. Be highly organized and possess excellent communication and analytical skills. Be able to adapt to changing priorities, with the ability to multitask being key. Excel & Microsoft Officeknowledge is essential, as is the ability to work to strict deadlines with meticulous attention to detail.

Key activities & responsibilities include:

Ensuring that the displays for our customers are working to their optimum, to drive profitability and performance, through considered and thorough line management. Ensuring cost of goods targets are met, delivering clear value for money and to product specification.
Monitoring and analysis of marketplace activity, sales and market research, in order to develop proposals for new product launches. Liaise with our inhouse design team to produce new product concepts.
In addition to the formulation of objectives andstrategies for your product area, you will have responsibility for ensuring plans are communicated and implemented within established schedules. You should be a strong communicator with the ability to build relationships whilst liaising with key internaldepartments.

A full clean driving licence is required as some travelling is expected.

This role will be office based but with a flexible approach to working from home.

Notes/Brief for Recruitment Team:

Who we are We create greeting cards, gift dressings and social expressions products for big events, special occasions and those "saw-this-and-thought-of-you" moments of life.

We're the largest direct to retail publisher, so you'll find our products just about everywhere

We're one of the largest direct to retail publisher of greeting cards and social expression products in the UK, so you'll find our products in most high street specialists, independent retailers and major supermarkets.

Along with our sister Company John Sands, we're part of the American Greetings family, the largest privately owned greeting card publisher in the world.