Assistant Product Manager - Chocolate Hertfordshire
Job description
Job Details
Location
Hertfordshire
Contract Type
Contract Full-Time
Salary
£26,000 per Annum
Closing Date
15/09/2023
As we continue our mission to make people happy through chocolate, we’re looking for an Assistant Product Manager - Chocolate to join our Marketing team on a fixed term contract for 9 month covering maternity leave.
As Assistant Product Manager - Chocolate, you’ll support the delivery of the strategies across all our product categories. Working alongside the Category Strategy Manager, you will work to identify opportunities and have a good understanding of the luxury market and our competitors. You will work closely with the operations, marketing and trading teams to support with new product launches and ad-hoc range changes, from product briefing through to product set-up and launch.
As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.
Here at Hotel Chocolat, we've adopted hybrid working This means you’ll join us on site for three days a week, and for the other two days – you can work from wherever you like! The on-site locations for this role are usually split between our Support Office, ‘Mint House’, in Royston, Hertfordshire and Hadley Park, our factory in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
What you’ll be doing….
- Working with the Category Strategy Manager to define and articulate the role, purpose, customer, and requirements of current and future categories.
- Analysing and interpreting data to identify new opportunities and improvements to offerings.
- Translating data and insight into tangible commercial opportunities
- Supporting with the full NPD development critical path, from brief creation to weekly development team meetings and day to day actions throughout the process.
- Ensuring supporting teams are fully briefed and any queries answered in a timely manner to ensure deadlines are met and delays are avoided.
- Reviewing and approving product packaging artwork as required.
- Reviewing categories performance in the channels and territories through frequent communication with the trading teams in each area and use this information, data and insight to identify new opportunities.
- Become the chocolate category main point of contact for functions across the business, promoting genuine passion for product and customer.
Who you are…
Self-motivated and organised, you can maintain excellent attention to detail even when working to tight deadlines. You can learn quickly and multitask, remaining positive and proactive though change. A confident communicator, written and verbally, you are comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels.
Essential
- Strong Excel skills – Intermediate to Expert level.
Desirable
- Experience working in the chocolate/gifting market and/or food and beverage sector.
- An understanding of premium product brand/retailers.
Who are we?
We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™.
A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about.
Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 100 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.
To learn more about us and read about our People Pledge – our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion – click here: hotelchocolat.com/uk/engaged-ethics/our-people.html
