Cruise Product Manager

We have fantastic opportunity for those with proven product management skills and strong knowledge of the cruise industry, to join one of the UK’s leading online cruise travel specialists as a Cruise Product Manager.

Reporting to the Head of Product, the successful candidate will be responsible for the output and delivery of the product pipeline team, managing the team's workload ensuring that all requirements of trading are met. They’ll be involved in bringing new product builds into the business, ensuring the quality, appropriateness and volumes are sufficient to meet business needs to protect and evolve our client’s product portfolio.

Previous experience in a similar product management/senior product executive role is essential for the position, along with strong commercial awareness and excellent knowledge of the cruise market and competitor strategies.

In return, our client can offer a highly competitive salary of up to £50k plus company bonus, pension scheme and medical benefits, so if this role is of interest to you, please contact us for a confidential chat, or apply online.

Role of Cruise Product Manager:

• To converse confidently and professionally to cruise lines and their account managers on a regular basis to ensure all product needs are agreed to, that will achieve agreed targets
• To be the product escalation for trading and to be present in all fundamental meetings
• To lead and direct all workload appropriately to the product developers, prioritising their daily, weekly, and monthly tasks
• Work closely with the trading, product support, contracting and the marketing teams to ensure capacities and new products are handed over in a timely manner
• To coach, mentor and review work set with the product developers to ensure all needs of the pipeline are met and are built to deliver to the KPI’s with agreed volumes
• Responsible for your countries margin and ROI targets as agreed with the business
• To confidently own the delivery of all new products from start to end
• Secure appropriate allocations with cruise line partners at exclusive/competitive rates
• To be fully aware and on top of key competitor activity, to be signed up to all competitor e-shots and to be reviewing midweek and weekend press advertising
• Review the commercial and operational performance of each product both on sale and off sale to capture the success for future products and to assess any areas of improvement moving forward

Skills required for the role:

• Excellent knowledge of the cruise market and competitor strategies
• A high level of organisational skills
• A positive and professional attitude
• Ability to create and motivate a dynamic team who deliver positive results with a positive attitude
• Commercially astute, numerate, and comfortable with analytics, pricing, negotiating, ROI and yield management
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and able to deliver under pressure
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple priorities
• Passionate about travel and keen/able to travel to and research a range of destinations

If you’re interested in learning more about this Cruise Product Manager role, please contact Succeed Recruitment Solutions or press the apply online button now!

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