Product Development Manager
4 weeks ago
Placing Leaders is seeking a Product Development Manager to oversee the development, testing, and certification of our client's products. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle, including positioning and prioritizing product development opportunities to maximize sales opportunities.
The Product Development Manager will communicate effectively with the centralised Product Development teams to maintain the company's product portfolio. This includes collaborating with teams such as Marketing, Technical, Operational, Commercial, and Customer Service to ensure each sales division has the best opportunity to maximize market share and drive customer satisfaction.
The Product Development Manager will drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes, including product research, market research, competitor analysis, planning, positioning, pricing, roadmap development, and product launch.
Key responsibilities include:
- Performing market research and providing UK market insight and product briefings to centralised Product Development Teams for new and existing products.
- Collaborating with Central Product Development Teams to ensure UK testing and certification requirements are conducted and maintained.
- Providing regular reports and analysis with a clear view on market trends and benchmarking of product range and hierarchy, product performance, strengths, weaknesses, features, benefits, and price points against competitors.
- Own new product introductions and plan, manage, and communicate across the UK organisation and sales divisions in conjunction with Central Product Development teams and stakeholders.
- Acting as the primary communication channel between the UK and Central Product Development to ensure all stakeholders are kept fully informed of product-related matters, changes, or modifications and products achieve planned profit contribution.
Requirements include strong analytical skills, including experience of market insight, competitor analysis, product life cycle mapping, and product delivery. Excellent written and oral communication skills, including report writing, presenting to a variety of audience types, are also required. Proficient IT skills, including common software skills such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with the ability to create spreadsheets and presentations, are necessary. Additionally, SAP experience and the ability to speak German are desirable. A clean driving license and ability to travel within the UK and/or other offices abroad are also required.
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