Product Category Manager

Full Circle Talent Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Full Circle Talent Group in Melbourne is seeking a proactive product development professional to drive the lifecycle of market-ready offerings. You will partner with marketing, sales and operations to translate customer insights into profitable products, manage timelines, and coordinate overseas sourcing to support launches.

This role rewards data-driven decision making, excel reporting, and strong stakeholder communication as you grow category share while delivering on cost targets in a

Qualifications

• Experience in product development lifecycle.
• Ability to translate insights into product strategy.
• Strong communication with marketing, sales and operations.

Responsibilities

• Drive product range initiatives with retail partners.
• Develop and launch new products; manage full lifecycle.
• Maintain relationships with overseas suppliers and manufacturing.
• Conduct market and competitor analysis.
• Ensure launches are on time and costed.
• Utilise reports and data to inform decisions.
• Excel data manipulation for insights.
• Handle day-to-day administration and project management.
• Coordinate shipping and inventory planning.

Skills

Product marketing

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Tools

Excel

Job description

This national consumer goods business is a leader renowned in it's field for innovation and quality. With a national footprint, and key customerrelationships with major retailers both locally and abroad,the role is diverse, withno two days the same and perfectly suited to a self-motivated individual looking to own their category and continue thesuccess it is already seeing.

The Role

An exciting product marketingopportunity has become available to support the business across the product development life cycle.You will help drive sales outcomes through effective product development and continually looking for new ways to gain marketshare.Offering wide exposure to overseas sourcing, you will be involved in planning, developing and launching new products &supporting the full life cycle of product marketing outputs.

Day to Day

As a product development professional you will have a diverse range of productmarketing experienceand will be able to demonstrate the following:

Driving product range initiatives with retail partners

Category growth and new product development

Develop and maintain relationships with overseas (China) suppliers and manufacturing

Market & competitor analysis

Able to build relationships cross departmentally to ensure products are launched to cost and on-time

Produce and utilise reports / data to make decisions

A strong ability to utilise and manipulate excel data

Administration and execution of day to day functional tasks

The ability to manage various projects at a time to ensure customer satisfaction

Following up shipping requests and working closely with customers inventory planning teams

Skills needed

Ability to work collaboratively across other departments (marketing, sales, operations etc.)

Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities

Ability to look at and capitalise on market trends

Heavily reliant on data to makefuture business decisions for your category

High attention to detail with strong organisational skills

High level of commercial acumen and able to see the impact your work has on the overall business success

Able to work in a fast paced, agile environment

With head office and management basedlocally in Melbourne, you will be given the support and guidance needed to be successful in your role. The right attitude and a willingness to workto strategic outcomeswill be key to success with this organisation.

In return is a competitive remuneration package, inner Melbourne suburbs location andafun environment with a strong culture of success and support.