What you will be doing

Experience with Agile product development, and a quick mastery of IT systems and solutions are highly desirable, along with a problem-solving mindset. With you as Launch Manager, PF Concept can count on developing, capturing and sharing the best practices to facilitate high-quality product releases.

From product inception to market readiness and post-launch, you will work pro-actively and closely with many different stakeholders and become a central point of contact for launch planning. This team includes your colleagues from Category Management (across different countries), Marketing, Commercial Finance, IT, Sales and Print and Manufacturing facilities.

All in all, your strong communication, presentation and writing skills will be extremely valuable for this position. The same goes up for your independent and self-starting mindset, data and project management skills, and organisation capabilities. You like to investigate contingencies, and when you spot any bottlenecks, you know how to resolve them. And since you don't stress easily, you're perfectly capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously and juggling multiple priorities.

Key responsibilities

• Co-ordination of product launches with multiple stakeholders – ensuring full data readiness on time. Accountable for the category team’s data management, 100% readiness and reliability.
• Creation of and Gatekeeper for all milestones (samples, OTB, order placement) within the yearly planning.
• Analysis of various sets of KPIs such as delivery performance for all categories (product samples and initial stock), quality of data readiness etc.
• Ensure that product data is optimised on our store by checking all relevant product propositions such as product descriptions, USP’s, images, are optimised for the sales.
• Central contact for collating all product samples for photography and fair kits.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (e.g.Category teams, IT, Marketing, Commercial Finance)
• Pro-actively identify any risks of delay to data or product delivery and plan steps to minimise any impact.
• Continual process improvement with all stakeholders (communication, files, data readiness and accuracy, planning).

This is your profile

• 5+ years of work experience in product development, data management of product marketing/e-commerce.
• Proven track record in managing complex projects and executing launch plans.
• Experienced managing projects involving multiple stakeholders from different departments.
• Demonstrated strength in analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Strong knowledge of product development processes.
• Experience in managing and manipulating large data files.
• Strong software skills, particularly in Excel. Knowledge of product management platforms would be advantageous.
• Strong listening, communication, presentation and writing skills with emphasis on technology.
• Excellent collaboration skills for working with cross-functional teams.
• Resilient and comfortable managing multiple projects against fixed timelines.
• Experience in competitive analysis and market research.
• Excellent English, both written and verbal.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.

Our offer to you

In addition to a pleasant working atmosphere where you can develop your talents, we provide a flat organisation with an open culture that values individual input and initiative.

We offer:

• A competitive salary that reflects your knowledge and experience;
• An annual bonus to celebrate our success when we achieve our goals;
• A laptop and the option to work partially from home, fully equipped, with an additional budget for creating an optimal workspace;
• 25 (or more) days of leave per calendar year based on a 40-hour work week, a premium-free pension, a birthday allowance, travel compensation for every kilometre travelled, and more;
• Extensive learning and personal development opportunities, including a wide range of online courses through Goodhabitz;
• Allowances to promote your health and wellbeing, free fruit, and a variety of lunch options available at affordable prices;
• A dynamic and inspiring world of product media products and gifts that you can buy in our own shop;
• Never a dull moment!

Who we are?

We bring people a smile every day! Ever received a Moleskine notebook with your employer's logo on it, bought a T-Shirt or worn a bracelet at famous pop or dance festivals, received a coffee mug with an inspirational text or other printed gift? Big chance it came from us. In fact. Every day you probably come across something from us and that makes people happy.

We are the European market leader with a revenue of >€ 250M in the dynamic and inspiring world of product media with top brands such as: Camelbak, Case Logic, Mepal, K’arst, Moleskine, Parker, Thule, Waterman and own labels such as Tekio and Elevate. A world that is changing rapidly and where developments such as speed, innovation, digitization and sustainability are extremely important. We are at the forefront of these developments.

Our European headquarter is in the Netherlands (near Leiden central station), operates industrial printing, production and warehouse facilities in the UK and Poland, and we offer an extensive and unparalleled range of more than 10.000 different product media products.
We operate business to business, so finished products find their way to end customers via one of our 15,000 resellers across Europe.

We are part of a bigger group, the global market leader of product media products operating on five continents and selling to over 100 countries with a revenue up to $ 1 bln.