Junior Product Launch Project Manager/Graduate and Early Career Starter Program

About Franke

We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world's leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.

The Franke Home Solutions division is the world’s leading provider of smart systems for domestic kitchens. Drawing on a long history of reliability and expertise, we help our partners enhance their businesses and provide outstanding kitchen and cooking experiences to our consumers by offering complete solutions for food preparation and cooking.

About the job

For our position, located in Manchester, UK, we are looking for a highly motivated Graduate or Early Starting colleague with an agile mindset to become part of our Cluster Product Management team. At Franke, we understand how important it is to get exposure, learn, and develop early in your career that's why we'll support and prepare you to take on a role in one of our divisions or matrix functions after successful completion of the GEC program (12-18 months).

Our 12-18 months tailored GEC experience enables you:

• to deliver projects with impact on our local and global business – from the very beginning
• to accelerate your professional development and personal growth by to increasing your responsibilities and assigning challenging projects to you
• to influence stakeholders, bring your strategic thinking and your creativity into play and challenge the status quo.

Your tasks

• Working with the Cluster Product Management team to ensure that our products are launched and managed as effectively as possible,
• Identifying a full overview of the markets from the Cluster (UK, the Netherlands, Nordics, South Africa), defining the to-be portfolio, price positioning, the go-to-market strategy and the launch package,
• Simultaneously managing multiple Product Management projects, including Product Lifecycle Management and Master Data Management improvement projects,
• Supporting the development and implementation of cluster-wide processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of all Product Management activities,
• Coordinating and leading activities across the Cluster Team, Central Category Management and the wider business,
• Creating analysis and reporting of product/category performance to support the Cluster leadership team,
• Becoming a source of expert advice and information for Product Management queries from the wider business.

What we offer you:

• A set of challenging projects to lead with continuous exposure to senior leaders,
• Access to the FRANKE ACADEMY with a broad range of trainings to improve technical as well as soft skills and general knowledge of the company and products,
• Individual coaching and support,
• Individual mentoring from a senior leader,
• Shadowing a senior leader,
• Support from a growing GEC community.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree, preferably in Business Administration or associated disciplines,
• You have already gained your first work experience but no more than 2 years from the graduation,
• Languages: Fluent in English (written and spoken) is a prerequisite, other languages are an asset,
• Experience in managing / leading projects,
• Demonstrable, genuine interest in our business and eagerness to discover and learn about different functions and roles within Franke,
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills,
• Proactive and committed mindset,
• Product based industrial work experience is a strong advantage,
• Possibility to travel within the countries from the Cluster and other EU countries.

Contact details

www.franke.com