Graduate Product Manager

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About Potter & Moore:

The Creightons Plc group is made up of a select group of brands specialising in the creation of high-quality personal care and beauty products for the consumer and trade market.

Potter + Moore Innovations Ltd is the key trading company based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and focuses on the design, manufacture, and distribution of products in its three key operating functions; Brands (owned and licenced), Private Label Supply and Contract Manufacturing.

The company's customer base ranges from key multiple drugstore, grocery and fashion retailers to premium brands and is supplied throughout the UK from Poundland to Harrods and growing international markets, currently 30 countries worldwide. We have also recently started a relationship with the NHS in the UK for supply of Hand Sanitants.

The company has a reputation for exceptional customer service and consistently leads the way forward in product / brand development and manufacturing - resulting in Creightons Plc not only leading the way but also setting standards.

Product Range:

Ranging in format and market position within several key health + beauty categories including; personal bath, shower and bodycare, haircare, male grooming, skincare, fine fragrance and baby + maternity. A company acquisition in 2016 also extended the companies capabilities into home fragrance formats; candles, reed diffusers and room fragrances. Most recently the Coronavirus pandemic has meant we have significantly changed gear into the Sanitants market.

Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Salary:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Product Management team at Potter and Moore Innovations Ltd. Supporting a Product Manager(s) on key Health & Beauty accounts. Potter and Moore Innovations Ltd offer an exciting & rewarding graduate scheme with a proven track record for delivering structed & successful career paths for the right candidates.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Project management
• Managing Artwork Process
• BOM creation
• Liaising with P+M packaging suppliers (requests for samples/quotes etc...)
• Customer Interface
• Preparing seal sample for customers
• Critical Path Management
• All other duties supporting the daily management of a multiple retail account
• Range of other general activities to support NPD process

Experience & Qualifications:

• Natural enthusiasm and passion for Health & Beauty
• Ability to multi-task and work on multi-projects
• Highly proficient in MS Office systems including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Successful within a fast paced environment : responds well to pressure
• Commercially competent
• Good Analytical skills
• Self-Starter and eager to learn
• Excellent communicator- verbal and written
• Attention to detail is a MUST
• Responsive - a 'can do' attitude
• Creative flair
• Ambitious & Focussed: willing to work hard to move through business to become Junior Product Manager and upwards.
• Clean driving licence