Product Lead - Kitchen Doors & Accessories

Kingfisher; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Kingfisher is seeking a Product Lead for the Kitchen door OEB range. You will drive innovation, lead a cross-functional team, and translate customer insights into a competitive product strategy. The role focuses on agile development and delivering strong commercial performance across Own Exclusive Brands.

Hybrid working model with office and offsite collaboration is expected, balancing focused work with in-person teamwork to shape the home improvement range.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to translate market data into product strategies and ranges.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver product concepts to delivery.
• Ability to analyse trends and customer insights to drive range performance.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain an exciting, competitive OEB category range.
• Understand and influence the Banner's asks to maximise OEB potential.
• Lead cross-functional teams across design, engineering, QA, brand and packaging for OEB range development.
• Project manage OEB projects from concept through delivery.
• Analyse data to identify commercial potential and drive sales/margin performance.

Skills

Commercial insight

Customer insight

OEB strategy

Range planning

New product development

Industry and product knowledge

Job description

Overview

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 70,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

As a Product Lead for our Kitchen door category you will be responsible for developing innovation in OEB (Own Exclusive Brands), be more agile in new product development and be more impactful on performance.

What’s the job?

• Use insight to create and maintain an exciting and competitive Category OEB range
• Understand the potential additions to the Banners ‘ask’, to take the OEB range to the full potential
• Have full visibility of Banners full ranges for insight purposes
• Project manage all selected OEB projects/ranges from concept through to delivery
• Lead a cross functional expert team (designers, engineers, quality, brand, packaging etc.) across OEB Range development and validation
• Identify commercial potential for my OEB range by analysing relevant data for trends and insights
• Identify requirements for OEB product development projects by using the Business Category direction and all the customer insights gained.
• Shared Responsible for the sales and margin performance of the OEB products within range

What you’ll bring

• Commercial and customer insight
• Build OEB strategy
• Plan and execute OEB range
• Industry and product knowledge
• New product development

How We Work

We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average, around 60% of your time will involve in-person collaboration.

What We Offer

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.