# Product Development Manager

**Company**: Co-op
**Location**: Manchester, Lancashire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £40,000 to £48,000
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Product Development Manager to join our Co-op Brand team. The successful candidate will help deliver own-brand products that meet the changing needs of our customers. The role involves researching and delivering innovative, high-quality products aligned with our strategy across an 18–24-month planning horizon.

The Product Development Manager will build positive relationships with key partners, collaborate with cross-functional internal teams, and analyse insights to understand future opportunities. The role requires continually reviewing the market, supply base, and competitors to shape and deliver the future of our own-brand proposition.

**Responsibilities:**

- Work as part of product development teams to create innovative, high-quality, customer-centric products

- Interpret internal and external data, insights, and trends to create product ranges

- Build relationships and influence key partners within the supplier base, trading teams, and technical teams

- Attend factory visits to understand manufacturing capabilities and future opportunities

- Keep up to date with the wider retail landscape, focusing on market trends and competitor performance

- Consider commercial implications throughout the development process

- Be a brand ambassador for the Co-op brand range

**Requirements:**

- Considerable experience in a product development role within the food industry

- Trained sensory skills to taste and analyse food

- Strong communication skills with the ability to build positive relationships

- Creative thinking with strong commercial insight and understanding

- Deep customer and category knowledge with the ability to analyse and interpret data

**Benefits:**

- Annual bonus based on personal and business performance

- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays

- Pension with up to 10% employer contributions

- Company car

- Access to a subsidised onsite gym

- 30% discount on Co-op products and 10% off other brands

- Stream – early access to a percentage of your pay

- Virtual healthcare including GP appointments and mental health support

- 24/7 colleague support service

- Training and support for development and career progression

- Cycle-to-work scheme

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## Skills

### Required
- product development
- food industry
- sensory skills
- communication
- commercial insight
- customer knowledge
- data analysis

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