Product Development Lead

1 week ago

Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom Zebra Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Management Specialist to join our team at Zebra. As a Product Management Specialist, you will be responsible for determining Zebra's product offerings and driving development, launch, and adoption of product to positively impact the customers' experience and market share.

Key Responsibilities
  • Anticipate market and customer requirements for assigned product(s) through comprehensive knowledge of market, competitive landscape, customer requirements, distribution channels, and Zebra offerings.
  • Work collaboratively with other functions to develop and align on business objectives, owning development of business case by completing supportive research, authoring slides, and delivering presentations to internal and external audiences.
  • Monitor and report business metrics against plan, recommending metrics to assess business performance and developing documentation of product and market requirements.
  • Own product lifecycle management for assigned product lines of moderate complexity, including tactical execution, managing custom requirements, developing and driving end of life plans, and execution of inventory objectives.
  • Demonstrate full knowledge of development process and work to design and create the product offer, coordinating post-launch activities such as sales support, bid and quote support, and customer presentations.
  • Monitor financial performance of product lines and make recommendations for pricing action against revenue and margin objectives, recommending target product costs for new products and evaluating cost reduction initiatives.
  • Develop pricing strategy with manager support and recommend product price to maximize sales and profitability.
  • Recommend promotion strategy by working in collaboration with Product Marketing department and support product launch by providing a comprehensive understanding of the value proposition.
  • Deliver product training to sales, sales engineers, technical support, and other internal and external stakeholders and work closely with development teams and other key stakeholders to oversee new product development, validating development is on spec.
Requirements
  • Preferred Education: Degree qualified
  • Preferred Work Experience (years): Minimum 5 years of experience in Product management or customer-facing technical product role
  • Key Skills and Competencies:
    • Strong attention to detail / quality
    • Strong process adherence
    • Advanced level skills in Microsoft business applications including: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
    • Customer services values / orientation
    • Strong professional work behaviors (attendance, teamwork, time management, follow through)
    • Advanced analytical and organizational skills
    • Demonstrates good judgment in decision making, applies knowledge and experience to guide decisions
    • Strong presentation skills
    • Strong communication skills (listening, providing clear and concise information, using proper language and grammar)
    • Advanced problem-solving skills
About Zebra

Zebra is a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working to make everyday life better. United by curiosity and care, we develop dynamic solutions that anticipate our customers' and partners' needs and solve their challenges.

We are a global company with a turnover of over $5 billion and a herd of over 9000+ colleagues spread globally in over 120 countries. We have a strong commitment to our values of Integrity, Teamwork, Agility, Accountability, and Innovation.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to our employees, including:

  • Private Medical Insurance (PMI)
  • Discretionary Company Sick Pay (CSP) Scheme
  • Dental Insurance
  • GEM (going the Extra Mile) our global reward and recognition program
  • WellTrack: wellbeing program to help you take control of your health by tracking goals, joining company step challenges, and lifestyle coaching to earn GEM points
  • Corporate gym membership rate with GymWorks in Fulwood
  • Service Awards: GEM points awarded for each 5 years of service
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Program): free confidential support service which can help you and your dependents solve challenges as well as benefit from employee discounts
  • Group Personal Pension Plan (company matched contributions up to 7% subject to employee earnings)
  • Financial Awareness training
  • Referral scheme: chance to earn between £750 and £1,500 gross for successfully referring a friend to Zebra (subject to certain criteria)
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) – 25 days' annual leave (pro-rated if working part-time)
  • 8 bank holidays (pro-rated if working part-time) plus company discretionary Z Day (Zebra's very own annual bank holiday)
  • Life Assurance four times basic salary
  • 4 days (32 hours per year) of paid volunteer service
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Income Protection in the event of long-term absence from work due to illness or injury
  • Access to our Zebra Education Network (ZEN)

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