Product Lifecycle Manager

Job Description

Brakes are currently recruiting for a Product Lifecycle Manager to join the team on a full time, permanent basis, reporting to the Category Manager.

As the Product Lifecycle Manager, it is your responsibility to take ownership for the categories potential waste. Working collaboratively with relevant key stakeholders to take appropriate actions to mitigate the risk of waste and ensure budgets are achieved.

Our role is offering hybrid working (once training is complete) with 3 days a week in the Ashford office, so you must be within a commutable distance. The site has good transport links and free car park for colleagues. The hours for this role are Monday-Friday 39 hours per week, 8am – 5pm.

If you are passionate about driving sustainability initiatives, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Identifying, alleviating, measuring and monitoring risks within the relevant category to ensure budgets are achieved.
• Taking a lead role in waste mitigation by working collaboratively across multiple departments and managing the communication process effectively.
• Working closely with Finance Team to ensure full traceability of stock movements in relation to waste and responsible for investigation of queries.
• Identifying process improvements to reduce waste and risk, and monitoring progress of activities.
• Analysis of historic waste, identifying trends, understanding margin erosion and identifying improvements from these key learnings.
• Creatively building ad-hoc promotional activity to support clearance of stock.
• Responsible for ensuring all tools are accurate and escalating issues to relevant parties.
• Working closely with Chilled and Pricing teams to ensure Staff Sales are executed accurately and on time.
• Actively and passionately maintain an understanding of the Sustainability Councils’ global commitments, sustainability developments and its impacts on Supply Chain.
• Constantly seeking new avenues and breaking down barriers in order to support waste mitigation as well as supporting charities across the UK.

About you:

Ideally you will have a background in Supply Chain, preferably with FMCG environment with high levels of resilience with a proven ability to thrive in a very busy, demanding and pressurised environment. We are looking for someone with a passion for sustainability and for driving environmentally responsible initiatives. You can engage in challenging conversations to drive results, foster accountability, and ensure alignment with both financial and sustainability goals, all while maintaining a constructive, solutions-oriented approach. You will have a good understanding of SAP, BI, Tableau, Microsoft workbooks and possess the ability to interpret analytical data. You will have strong business acumen, with budgetary analysis, a deep understanding of numbers and financial control experience and the ability to prioritise workload.