Interim Product Lead

2 weeks ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Kingfisher Plc Full time

Overview:
We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We’re looking for a Product Lead to join our Outdoor Plants and Greens category team based in Southampton, with hybrid working on an initial 12-month fixed term contract. The role reports into our Head of Range for Outdoor and will specifically look after the Garden Pots & Artificial Christmas area within our Outdoor category. As a Product Lead your role will be to develop innovation in the Own Exclusive Brands (OEB) within your category whilst being more agile in new product development and impactful on performance.

**Responsibilities**:
**What you’ll be doing**:

- Lead OEB projects and ranges within your category from concept through to delivery whilst using insights and data to identify commercial opportunities to build and maintain an exciting and competitive category
- You’ll lead on identifying new product development, input into eligibility criteria, selling data, comms brief and product validation working with a cross functional team of designers, engineers, quality, brand, packaging etc.
- Work with the business and retail banners to identify requirements for your category direction using customer insights gained
- Shared responsibility for the sales and margin performance of the OEB products within range
- Own ongoing performance review of OEB products and manage remedial actions with the retail banners to support overall range performance

Qualifications:
**What experience you’ll bring**:

- Industry knowledge and previous buying experience within the Outdoor category, ideally Greens category within a large international retailer
- Experienced at building, planning, and executing product strategy and ranges
- Prior experience utilising commercial and customer insights to shape product decisions
- Understanding of colour, material & finish will be important, experience in fashion or soft furnishings preferable
- Experience in new product development

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We’re adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office. Your office location? This person will be in our B&Q Head Office in Southampton.

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