Associate Product Developer, Worldwide Grocery Stores Private Brands

Amazon Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global retail company is seeking a motivated Product Developer to join their team in Greater London. This role involves managing food product development through all stages of the lifecycle, utilizing customer insights to drive decisions and maintaining high-quality standards. The ideal candidate should possess strong culinary skills, experience in consumer products, and a passion for quality food. You'll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to innovating the grocery market while delivering exceptional experiences to customers.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in customer-facing product development and management.
• At least two completed product life cycles in consumer products.
• Strong culinary skills with a well-developed palate.

Responsibilities

• Manage development and product lifecycle of grocery products.
• Leverage customer data to inform product decisions.
• Build and manage long-term vendor relationships.

Skills

Culinary product development

Stakeholder management

Customer insights analysis

Product lifecycle management

Detail-oriented execution

Problem solving

Job description

The Worldwide Grocery Stores Private Brands International team manage and develop our by Amazon grocery consumables brand for both the UK and pan EU, offering a mix of everyday essentials, local favourites and seasonal items we think our customers will want and love, all at great prices. Our goal is to be Earth’s most customer‑centric grocery brand and we are just getting started. We are looking for people who want to join an ambitious, innovative and customer obsessed program.

The Worldwide Grocery Stores Private Brands International team is looking for a motivated Product developer with a strong customer focus, passion for great quality food and with the drive and resilience to deliver results. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and food product development skills to be part of our dynamic growing grocery team.

As a Product Developer you will be responsible for the development of food products through all stages of the product lifecycle from insight through to product planning, development, specifications, artwork and launch. You will use customer data and insight to inform product and ranging decisions.

Key job responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will be managing the development and product lifecycle of our grocery products under the by Amazon brand including but not exclusively: range architectures, adherence to brand values while setting and maintaining the highest quality standards and managing the critical path. You will need to constantly strive to simplify processes, maintain frugality and deliver results against commercial guardrails whilst upholding a high quality bar. Clear and articulate communication skills and complex stakeholder management is essential; you must be capable of building and managing long‑term relationships with a broad portfolio of vendors.

The team works cross‑functionally on projects that require a strong detail‑oriented executional focus, problem solving drive, and proven ability to work autonomously. Leveraging a background in culinary product development, the ideal candidate has a well‑developed palate, a clear understanding of the grocery retail market, food trends and innovation. You will be passionate about food with extensive experience in grocery retail and bringing new products to market.

About the team

We are a team of Product Developers passionate about food. We have a strong bias for action and are customer obsessed. We are customer obsessed, bringing the customer into the heart of all product decisions. We strive to improve processes and streamline product development in order to deliver at pace for our customer.

Experience in customer‑facing product development and product management, including defining, launching, and optimizing product and services

• Experience in consumer products and have completed at least two product life cycles
• Experience working directly in customer implementations
• Experience working cross‑functionally across several teams
• Experience in retail
• Experience using customer insights and data to deeply understand target customers and dive deep
• Experience of developing products in a product lifecycle

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