Senior Product Manager - Gifting & Accessories

As Senior Product Manager for Gifting & Accessories you will work closely with Trinny, the CIO, Category Heads and Product Marketing to shape the Gifting and Accessories product strategy and be responsible for the creation, briefing and development of our Gifting and Accessory propositions. You will work closely with a development team including a Project Manager, Packaging Technologist, Procurement and a Creative Designer to help you deliver your launches on time. 

Welcome to Trinny London!

Here at Trinny London, we’re changing the face of makeup and demystifying skincare, and we're only just getting started. Founded in 2017 by Trinny Woodall, Trinny London is challenging people all over the world to rethink their routines.

We have achieved tremendous growth since 2017 and we’re proud to be one of Europe’s fastest-growing beauty brands. We’re generating millions of sales by developing innovative products, acquiring hundreds of thousands of supporters and customers all over the world, and more importantly, building a talented and motivated team to support our fantastic growth.

We live by three core values: bring fearless passion, act with smart intent and all wear yellow together. We always go the extra mile, working together to push boundaries and celebrate our wins and learnings as a team. We listen to every idea, big or small, and make considered decisions. We support each other to achieve our goals and thrive on collaboration.

The Role

Your daily to-dos might look like this:
Product Innovation/Concept Development:

• Working with the founder, CIO and Category Heads build our annual exciting gifting proposition and accessory strategy that supports business and channel growth strategies. 
• Working closely with Marketing to drive the gifting creative concept ideation, product briefs, artwork & toolboxes, training materials and business reports and ensure the cross functional input from key stakeholders.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement for existing products (EPD)
• Leading the ideation on your projects, with emphasis on high quality, innovative concepts and creation of ‘legacy’ products that fit in line with our business and marketing strategies and brand values, ensuring the needs of the founder, key stakeholders and consumer are met
• Managing all product launches from an Innovation perspective ensuring successful and timely management of projects, within budget, in line with yearly forecast providing weekly updates, risk assessments and buy-in from your key stakeholders on all decisions
• Writing product and design briefs with clear deliverables, target costs and RRPs.
• Getting sign off on product briefs from key stakeholders and briefing out to functional teams, supporting procurement, packaging and project management in supplier brief meetings. 
• Briefing the Designer and Head of Packaging Innovation and co-developing the product design and artwork for primary & secondary packaging - always including competitor analysis.
• Ensuring the development of the product is as per the brief. Includes approval of the final prototype at gate 2, working closely with your team, project managers, technical, packaging, and procurement teams to develop the prototype
• Working closely with key stakeholders on the pricing strategy and review, working cross functionally with Finance & Management team
• Keeping up to date with market, competitor and supplier innovations and keeping innovation and creativity front of mind - attending relevant trade shows and taking inspiration trips.
• Working closely with the technical, packaging and quality teams to set quality standards for all developments

Data Analysis & Commercials:

• Developing commercial rationale and scoping out the size of the opportunity for new concepts. 
• Monitoring internal sales data for Gifting and Accessories
• Conducting market & competitor analysis to help develop strong product concepts.
• Preparing business cases for each project gate.
• Working to understand consumer insights and performance of new and existing products - drawing conclusions that can help going forward. 
• Working closely with Procurement and Finance to get agreement from key stakeholders for target costs and margins of your products.

Marketing/Product Communication:

• Creating toolboxes, working closely with the Marketing Team on creative concepts and messaging and that all teams have the correct information in order to launch the product successfully.
• Supporting the delivery of creative, engaging and on-brand product assets by working closely with the Product Marketing & Design Team and attending relevant shoots.

Team Management:

• Fostering productive team processes that promote collaboration, efficiency and communication flow in order to deliver key objectives within tight timelines across the business
• Fostering a positive & supportive team culture - including team building, training and development

These skills will help you go far in this role:

• Previous experience within the beauty industry in gifting and or accessories product development
• Management experience required
• Ability to inspire & influence across the business
• Strong communication skills (at all levels, including founder)
• Strong interpersonal skills (within our team, and across the business)
• Experience with sales data and analysis
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Agility and adaptability
• Ability to multitask and highly organised
• Keeping up to date with global trends and competitor activity across all markets
• Quality first always in mind
• Passion, creativity & proactivity

We love to hear from anybody interested in Trinny London! Although it’s useful to have the skills listed above, we’re always eager to hear from ambitious people looking for their next challenge.

Our mission is to give our customers the tools they need to be their best. And the same goes for our team through our benefits:

• Flexible working with core working hours
• Hybrid working, 2-3 days in our amazing office, which is fully stocked with snacks and drinks
• 25 days holiday (we're also partial to a handful of spontaneous and well-earned Wellbeing Days throughout the year, as well as Summer Fridays)
• Welcome to Trinny London Starter Stack and swag
• Company discount for yourself, your friends, and family
• Vitality health scheme, EAP and Medicash
• Employee share scheme
• An annual personal training and development budget
• Enhanced family friendly packages 
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• T-Parties = many office socials as well as summer and festive celebrations!
• Rewards and Recognition Scheme (awarding length of service with gifts, vouchers and additional annual leave)

Equal Opportunities

We celebrate diversity in our customers, our products, and the teams we build. We champion inclusivity and want everyone to be the best versions of themselves.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome people from all backgrounds, with their unique perspectives, ideas and experiences.