The Opportunity:Nigel Wright Recruitment are working with a North-East based, market leading manufacturing business who are looking to recruit an experienced Product Manager. The Product Manager will be responsible for the roadmap for a range of industrial products, ensuring they have long term technical, operational and commercial advantagesRole Profile:
1. Ultimate responsibility for the product roadmap, strategically managing products through the product life cycle, planning for updates and obsoletion
2. Ensuring products have sustainable long-term technical, operational and commercial advantages
3. Perform market and competition analysis
4. Develop a product vision and ensure buy in throughout the company
5. Ensure features and benefits run as “themes” through a brand
6. Prioritise roadmap projects based on data (sales value, savings, or market share)
7. Define technical requirements of new products and provide required specifications to the NPD team
8. Deliver technical aspects of new and updated products to marketing
9. Advise marketing on market and customer trends to guide the creation of marketing tools
10. Support the sales team with training on new products and provide them with competitive mapping
11. Visit customers to assist the sales effort and gather market intelligence
12. Have responsibility for pricing proposals for new and updated products
13. Review pricing annually to increa...