Position Summary

Why join our team?

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Role and Responsibilities

Your Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Senior Product Manager for Laundry, the Junior Product Manager – Laundry, will be responsible for supporting the Senior Product Manager in the creation and flawless execution of the category strategy, contributing to the overall UK Home Appliance strategy. 

Purpose of the role

Contribute towards the development and support the implementation of the Laundry product strategy for the UK.

Support with the communication of the business priorities of the Laundry product line, supporting in translating the HQ vision into actionable UK specific plans.

Work with the Senior Product Manager to take accountability for the P&L of the Laundry category and ownership of the Laundry budget ensuring profitable growth.

Complete data deep dives and complete regular and consistent analysis of sell in, sell out and market performance to drive growth within your category.

Work with the wider Product Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing and Commercial teams to develop successful propositions for the Laundry category.

Your day to day responsibilities

Product Strategy

Work with UK HQ, Korean HQ & EU HQ to ensure products are set up with all key UK channel partners in a timely manner ahead of launch.

Regularly review the Laundry category strategy and support with the delivery of this.

Set the £RRP and invoice pricing of Laundry products to ensure the product range is competitive for the target market.

Analyse weekly sell-out figures to measure performance, identify key trends & ensure performance of the category is delivered, suggesting actions required.

Analysis of external data Such as GFK to measure performance, identify key trends & ensure performance of the category is delivered, suggesting actions required.

Provide information to ensure correct product channelisation, product lifecycle management and investment decisions for the Laundry business.

Market Strategy

Work with the Channel Marketing and Brand teams to ensure that the product strategy is correctly communicated.

Work with the Brand teams to set the direction for segmentation of Laundry products in the UK.

Support the Senior Product Manager in developing the quarterly promotional plan & financial simulation for the laundry category, ensuring achievement of key targets and timely approval. 

Review and suggest reactions to competitor strategy, communicating insights and actions to UK, EU and Korean HQ.

Support with product category sign off on all marketing & training assets produced. 

P&L Accountability

Support the Senior Product manager to deliver the category monthly margin, revenue and stock targets

Work with the wider UK Home Appliance business units to conduct ROI analysis on business opportunities in a timely manner to ensure correct actions are taken

Support with financial modelling & provide scenarios that will help the Senior Product Manager in decision making

Support with monthly & yearly budget planning cycles ensure they are correctly loaded into systems.

Forecasting & Stock Management

Work with the Senior Product Manager to input weekly forecast into the global supply chain systems

Work with demand planning teams to ensure factory teams have correct levels of product supply to meet targets

Work with the commercial sales team to ensure that any variation to plans are managed and communicated

Support the Senior Product Manager to ensure that any aged or surplus stocks have clear action plans to resolve issues quickly & proactively.

Launch Management

Contribute to the development of the launch plan for new products within Laundry portfolio

Take ownership and co-ordinate key stakeholders with the launch to ensure overall delivery of the launch strategy

Find new and innovative solutions to deal with any challenges with launch process and creatively overcome long-term challenges and short-term problems.

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

Experience of handling large quantities of data to make complicated decisions – intermediate excel skills required

Self-motivator and self-starter

Ability to break complex problems down into simple, meaningful solutions

Flexible & adaptable with ability to work in cross functional teams

Ability to work at a fast pace, with accuracy, in a changing environment across multiple projects

Ability to make decisions with full understanding of impacts and wider business trade offs

Excellent attention to detail

Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Creative thinking - find a way forward when barriers appear

Outstanding communications skills comfortable presenting at all levels

Strong and flexible Interpersonal skills when interacting with colleagues of different nationalities and culture.

What does success look like?

To be successful in this role you ideally have:

A well rounded blend of

High level commercial acumen

Advanced data-handling capability

Well-developed creative problem solving skills

The ability to deliver excellence in collaboration with others.

Tenacity and resilience in a fast paced and demanding corporate culture

Success in the first 6 months will look like:

Gain a full understanding of the UK Laundry Strategy & products in the range

Understanding & competent in the use of key Samsung processes and systems

Strong relationships built within the product management team and wider Home Appliance teams

Understand how you can support the business in achievement of its objectives for the category

Driving the implementation of key launches, promotional planning & forecasting.

Success will be measured by:

Overall support offered in the achieve of the category metrics, including; 

Meeting quarterly and yearly targets for Volume, Revenue, Profit, Net Dealer Price

Category Mix performance

Accuracy of commercial forecasts alongside Quality and reliability of reporting

Skills and Qualifications

Benefits of working at Samsung include

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week

Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance

Car allowance (delete if not appropriate)

Pension contribution

Three volunteering days each year

Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday

Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products

Access to a discount shopping portal

Partner Colleagues are not eligible for certain types of statutory leave such as Samsung Family Leave or Sick Leave policies but may be eligible for statutory payments via their agency

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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