Creative Product Specialist

**Creative Product Specialist**

**Based near Verwood, Dorset, or hybrid, depending on the individual.**

Are you a creative and enthusiastic ideas generator with a background in creative, marketing or products with exposure to printed packaging or promotional print?

If the answer is YES, then please read on, as this may be the kind of opportunity you have been looking for.

**The Opportunity**

Our client is keen to expand their market reach by leveraging their extensive technical print & finishing capabilities and skills to create new products for both B2B and B2C customers.

**The Business**

The business has been around for over 30 years with a recently refreshed leadership team who are focussed on maximising the quality of their service and products and expanding their client base into new areas.

They're profitable, well-invested, quietly confident, motivated and keen to grow with strong end-user clients who already recognise their capabilities and value.

**The Role**

We don't see a long term future in a business that competes on price and volume, which is why this role is all about adding value and creating product-led opportunities for the business.

**They would like you to**:

- Explore & create new printed product ideas and concepts that can be commercialised and sold as new products by sales team and via a future e-commerce.
- Help the business manage and develop new printed products. Recommend intended marketplaces, functionality and branding (if necessary).
- Work with the product design and manufacturing team to understand the business’ manufacturing capabilities.
- Support the Sales team in understanding client requirements, identifying trends in product requirements that can be used and adapted to build a commercial product portfolio.

**They would like you to be**:

- Creatively minded with some experience in print or packaging products, design, advertising or marketing.
- An “ideas generator” who challenges expectations and pushes colleagues to expand their reach in exceeding customer needs.
- Has some commercial understanding and can make commercial arguments for products or concepts.
- Is enthusiastic about new printed product development
- Works well under their own initiative and is able to set their own goals.
- Influential and able to affect change in people and business
- A good communicator, both internally and with customers.
- A visualiser who can “paint a picture” around products and marketplaces.

**Nice to haves**:

- Printed/Packaging Product Design Sector experience
- Hands on Creative Skills
- Project Management experience
- Client facing experience

The potential to grow and develop with this role is huge.

We’d like you to be in the Verwood/Southampton region, but can be hybrid flexible depending on your needs and experience. It’s important you’re regularly on site, as that’s where the print and packaging creators are based.

If this sounds like something that makes you want to get up and get involved, we'd love to hear from you.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Verwood, BH31 6BE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Product management: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Verwood, BH31 6BE

Reference ID: KH/TR/1008