Product Developer, Amazon Fresh Private Brands, Amazon Fresh Private Brands

Redefined Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Interested in joining a new exciting venture? Curious to be at the heart of where innovation meets customer obsession? The Amazon Fresh Private Brands International team manage and develop our by Amazon grocery consumables brand across all channels for both the UK and pan EU, offering a mix of everyday essentials, local favourites and seasonal items we think our customers will want and love, all at great prices. Our offer also includes delicious ready-to-eat and ready-to-heat meals. Our goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric grocery brand and we are just getting started. We are looking for people who want to join an ambitious, innovative and customer obsessed program.

Amazon Fresh Private Brands-International is looking for an exceptionally motivated and talented Product Manager with a strong customer focus, passion for great quality food and with the drive and resilience to deliver results. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and food product development skills to be part of our dynamic growing grocery team.

As an experienced Product Development Manager you will be responsible for the development of food products through all stages of the product lifecycle from insight through to product planning, development, specifications, artwork and launch. You will use customer data and insight to inform product and ranging decisions.

Key job responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will be managing the development and product lifecycle of our grocery products under the by Amazon brand including but not exclusively: range architectures, adherence to brand values while setting and maintaining the highest quality standards and managing the critical path. You will need to constantly strive to simplify processes, maintain frugality and deliver results against commercial guardrails whilst upholding a high quality bar. Clear and articulate communication skills and complex stakeholder management is essential; you must be capable of building and managing long term relationships with a broad portfolio of vendors.

The team works cross-functionally on projects that require a strong detail-oriented executional focus, problem solving drive, and proven ability to work autonomously. Leveraging a background in culinary product development, the ideal candidate has a well-developed palate, a clear understanding of the grocery retail market, food trends and innovation. You will be passionate about food with extensive experience in grocery retail and bringing new products to market.

About the team

We are a team of Product Developers passionate about food. We have a strong bias for action and are customer obsessed. We strive to improve processes and streamline product development in order to deliver at pace for our customer.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience in culinary Development/Food Product Development from product concepts to full commercialization
2. Project management - end to end commercialization experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Extensive experience in food industry with relevant product development experience
2. Culinary & Food Technology experience/training, preferably in fresh food development
3. Experience and knowledge of ingredient functionality
4. Experience working in a cross-functional large organization environment
5. Experience of converting data and insights into strategic product pipelines
6. Experience in end to end project management and adherence to critical paths, brand standards
7. Experience commercializing diverse products
8. Experience with Excel, Outlook, Sharepoint and formula management focused systems
9. Experience working in a retail environment

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