As Senior Product Manager for Gifting & Accessories you will work closely with Trinny, the CIO, Category Heads and Product Marketing to shape the Gifting and Accessories product strategy and be responsible for the creation, briefing and development of our Gifting and Accessory propositions. You will work closely with a development team including a Project Manager, Packaging Technologist, Procurement and a Creative Designer to help you deliver your launches on time.
The Role
Your daily to-dos might look like this:
Product Innovation/Concept Development:
Working with the founder, CIO and Category Heads build our annual exciting gifting proposition and accessory strategy that supports business and channel growth strategies.
Working closely with Marketing to drive the gifting creative concept ideation, product briefs, artwork & toolboxes, training materials and business reports and ensure the cross functional input from key stakeholders.
Identifying opportunities for improvement for existing products (EPD)
Leading the ideation on your projects, with emphasis on high quality, innovative concepts and creation of ‘legacy’ products that fit in line with our business and marketing strategies and brand values, ensuring the needs of the founder, key stakeholders and consumer are met
Managing all product launches from an Innovation perspective ensuring successful and timely management of projects, within budget, in line with yearly forecast providing weekly updates, risk assessments and buy-in from your key stakeholders on all decisions
Writing product and design briefs with clear deliverables, target costs and RRPs.
Getting sign off on product briefs from key stakeholders and briefing out to functional teams, supporting procurement, packaging and project management in supplier brief meetings.
Briefing the Designer and Head of Packaging Innovation and co-developing the product design and artwork for primary & secondary packaging - always including competitor analysis.
Ensuring the development of the product is as per the brief. Includes approval of the final prototype at gate 2, working closely with your team, project managers, technical, packaging, and procurement teams to develop the prototype
Working closely with key stakeholders on the pricing strategy and review, working cross functionally with Finance & Management team
Keeping up to date with market, competitor and supplier innovations and keeping innovation and creativity front of mind - attending relevant trade shows and taking inspiration trips.
Working closely with the technical, packaging and quality teams to set quality standards for all developments
Data Analysis & Commercials:
Developing commercial rationale and scoping out the size of the opportunity for new concepts.
Monitoring internal sales data for Gifting and Accessories
Conducting market & competitor analysis to help develop strong product concepts.
Preparing business cases for each project gate.
Working to understand consumer insights and performance of new and existing products - drawing conclusions that can help going forward.
Working closely with Procurement and Finance to get agreement from key stakeholders for target costs and margins of your products.
Marketing/Product Communication:
Creating toolboxes, working closely with the Marketing Team on creative concepts and messaging and that all teams have the correct information in order to launch the product successfully.
Supporting the delivery of creative, engaging and on-brand product assets by working closely with the Product Marketing & Design Team and attending relevant shoots.
Team Management:
Fostering productive team processes that promote collaboration, efficiency and communication flow in order to deliver key objectives within tight timelines across the business
Fostering a positive & supportive team culture - including team building, training and development
Requirements
These skills will help you go far in this role:
Previous experience within the beauty industry in gifting and or accessories product development
Management experience required
Ability to inspire & influence across the business
Strong communication skills (at all levels, including founder)
Strong interpersonal skills (within our team, and across the business)
Experience with sales data and analysis
Exceptional attention to detail
Agility and adaptability
Ability to multitask and highly organised
Keeping up to date with global trends and competitor activity across all markets
Quality first always in mind
Passion, creativity & proactivity