Product Manager (Delivered food) Job in Northamptonshire NN4, Midlands UK


Job title: Product Manager (Delivered food)

Department: Investments
Location: Northampton
Hours: 40 hours
Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

We are a highly successful and profitable financial services business now looking to improve and develop its products range and become a household brand name. The Product Manager is the driving force within the business to manage a new food distribution concept. 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 and building of a new delivered food brand
-Implementation of profitable new products to market
-Long term and sustainable new business customer volumes and ultimately profit to the business
-Successful management of the CRM and marketing 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 (food industry is preferred but not essential) with 3+ 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.
-If you have experience in developing online propositions that would be a plus, as is experience in managing and negotiating with manufacturers and/or actual physical product development including preparation, automation and packaging.
-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