Product Development Manager Job in Northamptonshire Nn4, Anglia Uk
Our client is a highly successful and profitable financial services business now looking to improve and develop its products range and services, as well as its customer journey and become a household brand name. As a result, it is now increasing its Marketing function to support these aims. The Product Development Manager is the driving force within the business for new concepts, innovations, products and services.
Developing a clear understanding of our client’s strategy, you will proactively develop ideas from concept through to implementation and measurement. You will use your first class communication and influencing skills to gain but in from senior management around the business so that ultimately, the business thrives and becomes less reliant on current product and service offerings.
Key results areas:
Development of new ideas and concepts.
Implementation of profitable new products to market
Effective management of the product development process
Optimisation of existing products e.g. add ons, with a view to increasing income and profit
Long term and sustainable new business customer volumes and ultimately profit to the business
Successful management of the product development budget.
Evidence of best practice team working with other areas of the business (specifically Operations and Business Development) in order to achieve the overall business goals.
Experience and skills required:
You will be an experienced product development manager or innovations specialist (any industry) with 5+ year’s recent experience.
Proven track record of taking complex projects from inception through to completion.
You will have strong commercial understanding helping you to drive the business forward and you will thrive in a dynamic and busy environment.
You will have strong team building and leadership capabilities.
You will bring imagination and a new depth of ideas and creativity, a sales innovator with proven business acumen to match.
Sound judgement and ability to make decisions without reference above.
You will be hard working, self motivated and able to work independently in a team orientated environment and will demonstrate a hands on work ethic.
The ideal candidate will possess a string sense of urgency, be able to think beyond the initial set of facts or issues and have strong orientation for probing for less than apparent solutions.
You must have excellent analytical, issue spotting skills.
You will have excellent written/verbal communication skills
Computer literate in MS Office suite
You are an ambitious and enthusiastic person with a positive outlook who is not easily distracted