Product Manager

Michael Page (UK); Salterforth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in the UK is offering an exciting leadership role within a market-leading manufacturing company. The successful candidate will lead a costing/product data team, ensuring data accuracy and driving process improvements. This position comes with a competitive salary, benefits package, and personal development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Flexible working

Personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing a cross-functional team.
• Proficient in managing product data and cost accuracy.
• Ability to coordinate and communicate with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Costing/Product data team and mentor team members.
• Create and maintain accurate product data in the ERP system.
• Develop cost models to support strategic decision making.

Skills

Great communication skills

Experience in team management

Problem-solving abilities

Competent Microsoft skills

Strong attention to detail

Ability to handle large product data

Tools

Excel

Job description

Overview

• Opportunity to work for a well established, market leading manufacturing company
• Exciting Leadership Role with career development opportunities.

About Our Client

Our client is a well established, market leading manufacturing company based in Barnoldswick.

Job Description

You will be the driving force in enabling the business to make informed and strategic decisions that can directly impact profitability and the overall business performance. The department take the journey of products from concept to model sign off.

• Lead the Costing/ Product data team with the ability to motivate, mentor and support the team.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining accurate product data, including BOMs, routings, descriptions, product attributes, EAN codes as well as any other product data in our ERP system JDE.
• Create, maintain and validate standard costs and pricing for new and existing products.
• Coordinate with purchasing, product, production and other key stakeholders to gather relevant cost data.
• Develop and maintain cost models and tools to support strategic decision making.
• Drive process improvements in data governance and cost management.
• Train and develop team members, promoting best practises in data and cost accuracy.
• Monitor and analyse cost variances and investigate causes.
• Coordinate new product launches from a data and costing perspective, ensuring all timelines are met.
• Deliver the strategic priorities whilst embracing and promoting operational excellence through Kaizen initiatives
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on the progress on projects covering the full department

The Successful Applicant

• Great communication skills with the ability to coordinate cross functional teams.
• Experience in leading, managing and developing a team (product, materials, engineering, estimating, costing etc)
• Experience with coordinating tasks, solving problems and working cross functionally
• Competent Microsoft skills (Excel, One Note).
• Passion and creativity to drive the projects and team with the ability to prioritise depending on project needs.
• Embracing change and drive improvements, willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Strong attention to detail, driving data accuracy
• Proficient in handling large amounts of product data.
• Understanding product data taxonomy, ownership and governance

What's on Offer

Competitive salary, benefits package, flexible working and personal development opportunities whilst furthering your career with a market leading company.