Temporary Senior Product Development & Range Manager

Elevation Recruitment Group; Bradford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevation Recruitment Group is seeking a Temporary Senior Product Development & Range Manager in Bradford for a 12-month role. You will lead the product development strategy aimed at delivering an exceptional Christmas 2026 product range while working collaboratively with merchandising and commercial teams. The candidate should possess experience in product lifecycle management and a background in FMCG, coupled with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual care day and volunteer days

Flexible working opportunities

Free onsite parking

Variety of cultural and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Solid experience in product development or buying role.
• Experience in creative-led FMCG environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive product strategy and market insights for a leading Christmas product range.
• Oversee cost discussions and ensure product development meets required financials.

Skills

Product development lifecycle knowledge

Negotiation

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree level or equivalent experience

Job description

Temporary Senior Product Development & Range Manager

Temporary Senior Product Development & Range Manager

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Marketing Recruitment Specialist at Elevation Recruitment Group

Role: Temporary Senior Product Development & Range Manager

Salary: up to £55k per annum DOE

Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday- Friday

Based in Bradford, you’ll be able to take advantage of:

• Competitive salary (open to negotiation)
• An annual care day and volunteer days
• Flexible working opportunities including working from home opportunities
• Free onsite parking for when you are in the office
• A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance

This is a temporary 12-month role for a Senior Product Development & Range manager (SPDRM) to deliver Christmas 2026. You will be accountable for driving the product development strategy and delivery of Christmas 2026 product development to agreed Critical path dates. Working with merchandising and commercial, you are responsible for creating the optimum Caption and Sku framework to drive sales to agreed financials and ensuring product is developed to this framework.

Your Responsibilities

• Drives the development and delivery of an insight led, market leading product strategy
• Use market insights, competitor analysis, sales data, and customer research to drive best in class Christmas 26 product range.
• Oversees cost discussions with supply base, procurement and commercial. Responsible for Workbook and ensuring product development meets required HMK and customer's margin requirements.
• With wider team, identifies product gaps and ensure proposals are delivered to customer in line with the agreed creative vision
• Ensures agreed Proposal of RRP to customer and confirmation of RSP from customer
• Delivers brand offer on cards
• Ensure Execution of the range builds for ‘largest/ smallest and most common’ plans within a range strategy including architecture, pricing and fixture/display and layout
• We’re looking for experienced Product Manager at ease with the customer and full lifecycle.

To be successful you will need:

• Educated to degree level or experience within a product development/marketing discipline or equivalent industry related experience
• Solid product development lifecycle knowledge and experience, ideally creative led, FMCG environment, including pricing, sourcing, contract negotiations and supplier management
• Solid experience in a product development or a buying role with proven commercial success (Christmas experience preferable)
• Experience of performance management and developing talent across direct and indirect teams, would be a significant advantage
• You’re a skilled negotiator, resilient and comfortable managing multiple, often conflicting priorities, identifying compromises to deliver to fixed objectives and KPIs
• Experience building product ranges and articulating the rationale behind selections across multiple seasons and product lines
• A natural ability for bringing strategy to life and winning over varied stakeholder groups through relevant insights and sales data
• Commercial acumen and experience of delivering profitable products within KPIs
• Knowledge and experience of costing and product pricing, sourcing, contract negotiations and supplier management

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management

• Industries

  Retail Office Equipment

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