Product Manager

Here at Graham & Brown an exciting opportunity has now arisen for a Product Manager to join the team, based in Blackburn. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £27,670 to £34,587 per annum.

Graham & Brown has had design and colour at the heart of our business for over 75 years and has gone from being just a wallpaper manufacturer to an interior lifestyle brand driven by high-quality products and exceptional customer experience and marketing. With leading brands across the market from the Graham & Brown brand itself to household names like Superfresco Easy and licenses such as Laura Ashley, Joules, and Cath Kidston to name but a few, our offer stretches across products from wallpaper, paint, fabric, curtains, blinds, bed linen and wall art.  Our business is built on leading-edge design, across our international businesses and markets, and we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We have been recognised as a “Cool Brand” on seven successive occasions. As a 3rd generation, family-run business, we have the luxury of freedom to implement fresh ideas and to form great working relationships with all our colleagues across the business. We are proudly a carbon-neutral business with a real commitment to sustainability. 

We offer a range of excellent benefits, including:

• 32 days’ holiday, inclusive of Bank Holidays
• Flexi time working
• Birthday day off
• Generous staff discount on all Graham & Brown products, up to 60%
• Access to colleague discount portal
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension, totalling 10%
• Life Assurance
• Free Parking
• Use of company pool cars for company business
• Regular Company social events, brought to us by our very own Fun Squad!

As our Product Manager, you will be the key point of contact for product for Key Retail partners, working alongside Account Managers and the Design Team to prepare for customer product pitches, effectively managing all allocated product (wallpaper and non-wallpaper) through its lifecycle with a global perspective.

Our Product Manager will have the following responsibilities:

• Monitoring, managing and instigating the product origination process ensuring that critical paths are in place 
• Ensuring that information provided to all relevant parties of the origination process (EPOF) is accurate and distributed in best possible time
• Ensuring that the management of the Customer Selection Agreement and stock position for your products is accurate and up to date.
• Providing the account with creativity and innovation of both produce and in-store merchandising
• Ensuring that all account meetings are well prepared for and well presented
• Building and maintaining a database of customer information and instore ranges and performance
• Giving an overview of key parts of sales performances within your management
• Managing any technical developments that the account requires through the business to ensure the brief is met commercially and to the account’s satisfaction
• Preparing customer presentations using Powerpoint/In Design
• Working with the Buyer alongside the Account Manager to best understand the needs of the account
• Ensuring any pattern books you are responsible for are well researched, launched on time and within budget
• Liaising and managing product development from the subsidiaries into the main product development program 
• Ensuring that your brand is represented with excellence online with all digital assets, reviewing and refining the online offer regularly.

Experience and skills required by our Product Manager:

• Attention to detail is key
• Creative approach 
• Communicate at all levels (both internally and externally)
• Strategic thinker
• Flexibility to cope with a demanding and varied role
• Full driving licence 
• Creative approach
• Analytical, good interpretation of data
• Communicate at all levels (both internally and externally)
• Strategic thinker
• Presentation skills
• Flexibility to cope with a demanding and varied role
• Full driving licence
• Previous experience in a product driven marketing role
• Proven record in product management

If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, click ‘Apply’ now to be considered as Product Manager- we’d love to hear from you!