Job Description
5 days per week in the office in Rotherham
The Product Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of the product lifecycle. This is from insights, analysis and direction through to helping the business deliver and sell the product. You will determine the scope of current and future product lines by writing and reviewing the product specifications and requirements, managing the Product Lifecycle from inception to phase out and replacement. The Product Manager is responsible for leading cross-functional teams from the product conception all the way through to the product launch.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Proactively maintain high level of knowledge about the industry.
* Propose and engage in creation of product strategy related to specific markets.
* Coordinate new product strategy with the sales and marketing team.
* Always think out of the box in conceiving new products.
* Constantly maintain customer and sales focus.
* Create completed and detailed Offering Requirement (OR) documents for new products and assist in Design Requirements and Design Specifications with R&D
* Create and maintain the new product roadmap.
* Work closely with the Project Managers to follow speedy product development based on the OR.
* Work closely with marketing and sales teams to create product introduction and promotion strategies.
* Introduce the new products and sales strategies to the local sales teams.
* Monitor and analyse new products performance and suggest improvements if needed.
* Collaborate with the QA teams with the focus in resolving timely design inherited issues with new and existing products.
* Maintain EOL and product life cycle information and act respectively in future product creation.
* Assist R&D with product approvals requirements.
* Report regularly on product performance
* Analyse sales and product performance
* Meeting with suppliers in searching for new products, services and technologies.
The successful applicant will have 5+ years of Product Management experience. You will need to be a detail oriented, strategic thinker who is proactive in managing workloads and able to work with and influence every level of seniority with internal and external customers.