Product Manager Early Years

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Overview

Do you want to be help enrich the lives of learners worldwide?

At RM, we've been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector supporting over 10 million students around the world. We work with 28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions that improve education outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification, we partner with schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions, to enrich the lives of learners.

From humble beginnings in a garage in the Midlands, to supplying over 87 countries across the globe, we have been talking to educators and inventing thousands of new reasons for children to love learning for over 30 years.‌ For more information about our TTS division, click here - https://www.tts-group.co.uk/

Are you working in Education looking to move into a rewarding career where you can enrich the lives of learners?

Here at TTS, we are focussed on sourcing and developing educational resources that when used by practitioners and children in a setting, will really make a difference to a child's learning and development - our mission is to help improve outcomes in the sector globally.

We are looking for someone who is truly enthusiastic about the Early Years sector to join our team as a Product Manager. It doesn't matter if you don't have any product management experience, you will use your knowledge and experience of working in a educational setting to help us understand what is needed by practitioners and children to really ignite a child's imagination and learning. In this role, you be involved in the development and life cycle of our early years products.

TTS is part of the RM Group. RM have been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector supporting over 10 million students around the world. We work with 28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions that improve education outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification, we partner with schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions, to enrich the lives of learners.

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities will be to:

• Have a deep understanding of the sector and what really matters most to an Early Years setting.
• Collaborating with the team and our suppliers, select products that will make a difference to an early years' environment and create compelling Early Years categories.
• Make valuable connections with Early Years individuals so we can learn and grow.

A Product Manager will:

• Work with the Category Manager and Early Years team to understand how to build and maintain a commercially viable product range.
• Work with our marketing and digital teams to present our products in a way that is meaningful to our customers - an Early Years setting.
• Be able to articulate how a product can be used to facilitate many learning styles.
• Create innovate product photography, videos, and product copy online to maximise sales.
• Work with our Innovation team to initiate product ideas that can be sold to settings worldwide and be instrumental in a child's life.
• Review and optimise their categories, including product lifecycle management.

Experience

Experience:

• #Firstly, and most importantly we are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about the sector and wants to help improve a child's outcomes globally.
• Have experience of working/studying in the sector.
• Have good time management and is someone that is highly organised.
• Have excellent administration skills and can use applications like Word and Excel.
• Someone that is tactful and diplomatic and be able to communicate to all different departments and levels.
• Someone who can build a great network both at TTS and externally.
• Someone who can proactively solve problems and has a keen eye for detail - someone that can finish a task with excellence.
• Relevant professional qualifications in the sector.
• Full UK driving licence required.

What is in it for you?

At RM we have "My Work Blend @RM" which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options to suit them. As well as your office base, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. We expect how we make best use of hybrid working may continue to adapt as we adjust to our new ways of working.

As well as a competitive salary and our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available, some roles are also eligible for a performance-related bonus. There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign for a health assessment, or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.

To better reflect the society that we serve, we're committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work. We also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at recruitment@rm.com.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

What's in it for you?

• Firstly - the satisfaction of making a difference in the sector you are most passionate about.
• Training in all aspects of Product Management but we want you to bring the sector knowledge.
• Hybrid working options - we currently work 2 days a week in the office/3 days at home and operate a flex-Friday policy (subject to Line Manage discussions).
• Competitive salary and core benefits package which includes private healthcare, life assurance and Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels.
• Performance related bonus.
• At RM we are committed to making the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at recruitment@rm.com.