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Do you have experience managing the full product lifecycle within a consumer goods environment?
Are you commercially driven, with the ability to identify growth opportunities through product performance and market insight?
Do you thrive in a cross-functional role, collaborating with sales, marketing, and supply chain to deliver successful product launches?
MacGregor Black is currently partnering with a leading consumer goods business to recruit a commercially focused Product Manager. This is a permanent opportunity, operating on a hybrid basis, based in Surrey.
This role will play a pivotal part in driving product strategy, innovation, and lifecycle management across a dynamic and growing portfolio. You will combine strong commercial awareness with hands-on product management capability, working cross-functionally to identify opportunities, launch new products, and optimise existing ranges.
Key Responsibilities:
Analyse product sales performance, market trends, and competitor activity to identify opportunities for new product development, range extensions, and portfolio optimisation. Develop and present business cases for new product initiatives, including costings, pricing strategy, margin expectations, and sales forecasts. Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive product innovation, including reformulations and new product introductions. Identify and onboard third-party manufacturers and suppliers to introduce complementary product ranges, including drop-ship solutions. Support commercial teams in managing the full product lifecycle, including range reviews, SKU rationalisation, and product discontinuations. Own product set-up and administration across business systems, ensuring accurate SKU creation, product documentation, and asset management. Work cross-functionally with planning, production, operations, and warehousing teams to ensure readiness for product launches. Partner with marketing to define product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies, including packaging, labelling, and campaign assets. Support the development of compelling product propositions aligned to customer needs and brand positioning. Manage ongoing product requirements, including documentation updates, labelling changes, and regulatory compliance. Collaborate with supply chain and manufacturing teams to deliver accurate demand forecasting, ensuring alignment with promotional and marketing activity. Act as a key stakeholder for product information systems, ensuring consistency and accuracy of product data across all channels. Maintain comprehensive product documentation to support successful product launches and ongoing lifecycle management. Support pricing strategy and margin analysis in partnership with commercial, marketing, and finance teams.
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Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a product management or similar role, ideally within consumer goods or a fast-paced commercial environment. Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse data and translate insights into actionable product strategies. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams. Highly organised with strong attention to detail, capable of managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously. Comfortable working with systems, data, and product information management tools. Proactive, self-motivated, and able to manage workloads independently while contributing to wider team objectives.
If you would like more information on this opportunity, please contact Dan Hookway.
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