Product Manager (12 month FTC)

What does that mean? If you think about it, fluids are needed in every place or process you can imagine - in every home, in every hospital, in every factory, in every farm, in every café… In fact, we rely on fluids everywhere and every day. That’s why Aliaxis are here to help create the safest, most effective, and reliable solutions for sustainable fluid management.

The Opportunity/Role 📢

We now have an opportunity for a Product Manager to join us on a fixed term basis. Reporting to the Head of Product Portfolio, the successful candidate will be responsible for defining the future Building Services product offering and go to market strategy, concentrating on our Product Ranges that form part of our future commercial drainage offer. Prior experience of either this market or our current product ranges would be hugely beneficial.    

Key Responsibilities will include:

Product Development- researching customer needs and identifying development opportunities including new features, performance requirements etc.

Own project management for relevant segment Stage Gate product developments and work with R&D to deliver Stage Gate project requirements.

Product Implementation- including the contribution to strategic pricing decisions, proving support to commercial teams regarding margin analysis and discount decisions, delivering price increase implementation plans and providing product training to internal and external stakeholders

Stakeholder Management- provide support to End Users, Specifiers, Installers, Distribution and other external stakeholder groups, support sales team a event management and CPD development and be the subject matter expert, generating content, targeting audiences and setting objectives for marketing campaigns including lead requirements and KPI measurement with marketing.

Performance Monitoring- responsibility for monitoring, reporting and communicating  budgets, sales and P&L performance with appropriate stakeholders

Market Analysis- liaising with Market Analyst with appropriate customer, channel and product data

Competitor Analysis- understand competitors product ranges to compare and communicate pricing strategy, product capabilities, service offering, marketing activity and develop a competitive advantage assessment.

Product Performance- responsibility and management of your product portfolio with specific regards to Product Life Cycle Management - cull / improve/NPI/obsolescence, sales & margin performance.

Requirements:

• 5 years + commercial experience in fluid management / construction / ideally in the plastic piping sector

• Demonstrable product management experience.

• High level knowledge of Microsoft 365 package, (eg Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• The ability to persuade and influence others.

• Able to engage at all levels within a complex matrix organization.

Benefits:

• Company Bonus Scheme

• Holiday purchase scheme

• Private Health Insurance

• Life Assurance 6x annual salary

• Critical illness cover

• Pension contribution up to 10%

• Dental cash plan

• Hybrid Working - 2 days per week from home

• Enhanced parental leave

• Great discounts on local retailers and restaurants

• Fantastic Health & Wellbeing package including an Employee Assistance Programme and access to My Strength

• Full access to LinkedIn Learning to aid personal and professional development

• Cycle to work scheme

Plus many more

Equal Opportunity Employer