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Job Description
Product Manager
Organisation:Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO)
WorkLocation:Barnsdale Way Grove Park Enderby Leicester LE19 1ES
Salary: per annum (prorata for parttime)
WorkingHours:37 Hours per week Full time
ContractType: Permanent
Closing Date:25th May 2025
Interview Date(s): Week Commencing 2nd June.
If youre looking for an exciting and challenging opportunity we are looking for highly motivated individual to work within our Product Manager position is ideally suited to someone who wants to continue to advance their career in a busy and supportive team.
About the Role
As a Product Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining developing and implementing products for a range of catalogue products within defined product categories. Meeting current customer expectations and future demands and that products are in line with industry standards/best strong relationship with catalogue suppliers ensuring the SLAs/KPIs are adhered to.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Degree or equivalent qualification or demonstrable experience in this field.
- Experience of product management in a medium size organisation preferably related to catalogue product merchandising.
- Experience in Supplier Relationship Management methodology and practice with supplies of all sizes in various market places.
- Proven track record of managing workloads to meet deadlines a key aspect of catalogue product range development.
- An ability to interpret analysis of data sets reports feedback and trends etc and develop product ranges based on this on knowledge.
- Product category/portfolio knowledge required in at least one key market sector.
- Excellent communications skills: the role involves significant interface and liaison with customers stakeholders suppliers internal teams Competence in Microsoft Outlook Word Excel and the ability to manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
Wed also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
What we offer:
- Flexible working opportunities and access to employee benefits portal with car lease scheme.
- 27days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to 32 after 5 years service) and a scheme to buy additional leave.
- Local Government Pension Scheme with a generous employer contribution.
- Opportunities for learning development including CIPS or CIM.
- Great office location next to Fosse Park with free onsite parking and easy access to M1 and M69.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Thereforewherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstanceswhilst still meeting the needs of ESPO. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This mayinclude requests for compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
For more information or an informal discussion please contact:
Enter name and job title: Lindsay Watts Head of Category and Supply Chain.
Telephone: 0
Email:
How to Apply
ESPO is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the customers we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click Apply Now. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post pleasecontact our Employee Service Centre: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
