Product Manager

Role: Product Manager – Knaresborough
Elevation Recruitment Group - Marketing Division are excited to be working with a design and manufacturing business who are on the lookout to grow their team with the addition of a Product Manager.
Salary: up to £40k Per annum
Hours: office hours Monday to Friday

Benefits:

• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working option – 2 days per week.
• 1 month fully paid sabbatical after each 5 year’s continuous service.
• Great development opportunities.
• Perkbox subscription – access to free weekly perks, discounts, Boxx fitness app and wellness hub.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years continuous service.
• Team bonding and social activities.
• Free Food Fridays (Fish and Chips and Pizza are regularly on the menu!)
• An idyllic location away from the hustle and bustle, but just 5 mins from historic town centre. Job Overview:

As Product Manager, you will work predominantly at the inward-facing end of Product, immersing yourself in the brands’ product ranges and championing that knowledge across the group.
You will drive standards across departments, ensuring product information is kept up to date on our online and offline platforms; harness your writing skills to craft quality product documentation; collaborate with our designers on video and marketing resources; curate and deploy staff training plans; and enrich our internal e-learning portal with the latest product materials. You will also support the wider Product team on product development projects, which could involve analysing the market, developing product briefs, assessing samples and crafting onboarding packs as required.
Both a critical thinker and an excellent communicator, your drive to understand how things work is matched only by your ability to convey that knowledge to others. You are endlessly curious, with a strong eye for detail and an appreciation of the influence small details can have on overall success.
You are energised by a varied work schedule: comfortable working alone or in teams, online at your desk or hands-on with a product, methodically pursuing a product issue or thinking outside the box in a brainstorming session. A technical or engineering background is not required; what’s important is your ability to think logically, drawing on the resources available and driving continual improvement where these could be bettered. There is a lot to learn in product. We are expecting specialisms to develop. So, if you are ready to immerse yourself in our world of Product this could be the opportunity for you.

Main duties include:

• Working alongside the Head of Product, you will take ownership of the product roadmap, facilitating the development, onboarding and timely launch of multiple own-brand product ranges each year.
• Project manage owned projects, including co-ordination of stakeholders, manufacturers and internal collaborators, timetabling of milestones and deadlines, ownership of RACI and RAID logs and project comms. o Conduct research to refine product brief, including market and competitor analyses, identification of industry and compliance requirements, analysis of past product performance and customer feedback. o Build product briefs, distilling requirements and collaborating with Design team to produce ingenious and polished product concepts. Product design will focus heavily on digital control systems, requiring meticulous specification of internal logic, interface navigation and app integration requirements. o Assist the Buyer in the assessment of prospective manufacturing partners, identifying and resolving potential crux points before committing to development. o Manage development of product from mock-ups to golden sample, conducting rigorous hands-on testing and exercising problem-solving and negotiation skills to resolve conflicts to the satisfaction of all stakeholders within roadmap timescales. o Champion internal adoption of new products, conducting engaging onboarding sessions that secure business-wide buy-in.

• Become a product guru, proactively building and maintaining your knowledge of our products and their place in a constantly evolving industry.
• Devise, organise and deliver internal training programmes that empower teams business-wide to tailor their output with the latest product/industry knowledge.
• Provide technical product support as required, working closely with our customer-facing teams to facilitate a cycle of continual feedback and improvement.
• Champion product performance across lifecycle: undertake research, data analysis and supplier negotiation to identify and resolve issues with underperforming products; feed back into product roadmap when updates or alternatives are required.

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in product management, in the consumer goods industry.
• Understanding of principles of UX in product design.
• Project management experience and necessary organisational experience.
• Experience in delivering training of specialist products.
• Familiar with Microsoft packages.