Senior Product Developer
| Posting date: | 04 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £50,000 to £65,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 December 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60 0AG |
| Company: | Co-op Group |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 1048397_1733322967 |
Summary
Senior Product Developer
£50,000 to £65,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester City Centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
12-month fixed term contract
We're looking for a Senior Product Developer to join our Co-op. In this role you'll lead, coach and inspire a team of Product Developers to deliver the overarching product development strategy for Co-op own brand. You'll make sure our offering is always recognised as high quality, innovative and great value for money. Using performance data and customer insights, we'll look to you to create a positive customer perception of Co-op own brand products.
What you'll do
- Lead and inspire a high performing team, coaching performance, and development
- Collaborate with senior leaders on the creation & execution of the overarching Product Development strategy
- Make sure ranges fit brand values, align to tiering and benchmark appropriately
- Look for ways to improve our processes and products to increase quality and value throughout the development cycle
- Participate in a Seasonal Working group, leading our seasonal trend creation & making sure the team are fully engaged to deliver all key seasonal events
- Champion quality and own brand values both internally and externally
- Build strong supplier relationships, creating cross functional aligned multi-year supplier strategies
This role would suit people who have
- A relevant degree or equivalent experience in Food Science and/or Development
- A passion for food and strong knowledge of innovation trends
- The ability to lead and develop a successful team
- A high level of commercial awareness
- The ability to work cross functionally and build strong internal and external relationships
- Experience working across multiple categories and ideally across temperature regimes
Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Private healthcare
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing
Please note that we may close applications for this role early.
As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.