Product Portfolio Lead: Growth, Launch & Pricing

jlp; Darwen; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Herbert Parkinson, part of the John Lewis Partnership, is recruiting a Product Manager to own the current and emerging product portfolio across M2M and Filled goods. You will translate market intelligence and customer insights to identify gaps and launches, and lead pricing and GTM plans to boost profitability and delight customers.

The role requires a proven track record in product pipelines, lifecycle management, and strong negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of product lifecycles and demonstrable experience of successful product launch.
• Proven track record of delivering a product pipeline.
• Relevant project management qualification.
• Excellent negotiation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of the overarching product portfolio, maintaining a clearly defined catalogue across M2M and Filled goods products & specifications.
• Use market intelligence, customer insights, and competitive benchmarking to identify catalogue gaps, inform pricing strategies & drive portfolio additions.
• Define a robust process to ensure a commercially successful product launch.
• Manage the product lifecycle, exiting products efficiently with no business risk or impact to customers.
• Identify synergies across customer specifications with manufacturing to reduce variation and improve pricing matrix.
• Evaluate and select supplier partnerships to procure high quality, cost effective raw materials.
• Mentor and develop line reports to drive results.

Skills

Product lifecycle

Product launch

Project management

Negotiation

Job description

Herbert Parkinson, part of the John Lewis Partnership, is recruiting a Product Manager to own the current and emerging product portfolio across M2M and Filled goods. You will translate market intelligence and customer insights to identify gaps and launches, and lead pricing and GTM plans to boost profitability and delight customers.

The role requires a proven track record in product pipelines, lifecycle management, and strong negotiation skills.