Product Lead - Kitchen Doors & Accessories

Kingfisher plc; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care

Pension Scheme

25 Days Holiday

Staff Discount

Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Life Assurance

Bonus

Job summary

Kingfisher plc is seeking a Product Lead for the Kitchen door category. You will own the Own Exclusive Brands (OEB) range, drive agile development, and lead a cross-functional team to deliver innovative products that boost performance.

You will leverage commercial and customer insights to shape the OEB strategy, plan range development, and ensure strong sales and margins across the category.

Qualifications

• Commercial and customer insight required.
• Build and execute OEB strategy for Kitchen range.
• Project manage and lead cross-functional teams across OEB development.

Responsibilities

• Use insight to create and maintain an exciting and competitive Category OEB range.
• Understand potential additions to banners to maximise OEB range.
• Lead a cross-functional team across OEB range development and validation.
• Project manage OEB projects from concept to delivery.
• Identify commercial potential by analysing trends and insights.
• Share responsibility for sales and margin performance of OEB products.

Skills

Commercial insight

OEB strategy

Range development

Data & insights

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

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

• 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

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

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.

We value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements.

What We Offer
An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encourage new ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Scroll down below to find out more about our benefits.

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.

What we offer.

Private Health Care

Opportunity to receive up to family level cover with AXA. Join within three months of starting or at annual renewal in April. (This benefit is subject to Benefit In Kind taxation).

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

Immediate eligibility through auto-enrolment. Contribute 8% to receive a max 14% from the Company.

25 Days' Holiday

25 days per annum plus bank holidays as stated in your contract (pro rated for part time colleagues).

Staff Discount

20% discount at B&Q and Screwfix. Eligible after 3 months service.

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Share ownership in a tax efficient way. Save between £10 to £150 per month. Join at any time once three months service is reached.

Life Assurance

x4 Salary plus benefit equal to value of your Retirement Account (if an active member of KPS-MP) or x1 Salary if not active member.

Bonus

Competitive bonus scheme that aligns to work level of role.

Kingfisher Share Save

Save with the option to buy Kingfisher plc shares at the end of a 3 or 5 year period. Offered annually. Three months service is required at the annual invitation date, normally in October.

Our Behaviours

At Kingfisher, being all-in means contributing fully to our ambitions, supporting one another, and helping create a culture where we succeed together.

Continuously curious. Listen to understand. Always improving.

We are brave

Aim high. Act with courage. Move with pace.

We win together

Lead with customer. Commit to deliver. Help each other win.

Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.

Training & Development

There are so many ways you can grow, learn, and develop here at Kingfisher. At whatever pace suits you.

Conversations with senior leaders

Resources and tools to help you grow

Improving without instruments to help you learn is near impossible. That's why we make sure you have everything at your fingertips to find exactly what you need to keep growing.

Initiatives that measure development

With plans that ask you what you want to achieve and when you want to achieve them by, tracking progress and keeping development at the forefront of conversation is easy.

Find your path

The scale of group functions within Kingfisher is huge. That means you have the chance to build different career paths within multiple areas of the organisation.

Sharing is caring

We aren't selfish here at Kingfisher. Whatever your level of experience, you'll work with colleagues who are always welcoming and ready to share their knowledge whenever you need it.

Reach for the stars

So your ambitions are high? Good thing we have opportunities to find experiences in line with more senior roles and responsibilities. Here, you can evolve your career, no matter your level.

Why Kingfisher

We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?