Owned Brand Manager

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the end-to-end brand roadmap and NPD lifecycle, translating insights into product specs and working with design, product, sourcing and marketing to optimize sales and margins.

  • Lead end-to-end brand roadmap from concept through launch and lifecycle management.
  • Align ranges, pricing, and inventory with design, supply chain, and marketing to maximize profitability.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end‑to‑end brand roadmap, from concept and product development through to launch, lifecycle management and rationalisation.
  • Develop and maintain strong brand positioning and value propositions that resonate with our target customers and support channel strategies (stores, online and wholesale where applicable).
  • Translate market insights, customer feedback and commercial data into actionable product specifications, features and price architecture.
  • Work closely with design and product teams to brief, approve and iterate ranges, ensuring consistency of quality, fit for purpose specification and cost targets.
  • Partner with supply chain and buying to set order plans, margin targets and inventory strategies that balance availability and working capital.
  • Develop seasonal range plans, promotional calendars and NPD pipelines that drive sales and margin improvements.
  • Liaise with marketing and visual teams to create impactful launch packs, product copy, imagery and in‑store merchandising tools.
  • Monitor brand and SKU performance, producing regular commercial reviews and taking timely corrective action where required.
  • Manage stakeholder relationships and influence senior decision making through clear commercial rationale and reporting.
  • Champion sustainability and cost‑efficiency opportunities in product design and sourcing.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in brand, product or range management, ideally within furniture, homewares, sleep or fast‑moving retail categories.
  • Demonstrable track record of delivering profitable NPD and range performance against sales and margin targets.
  • Strong numeracy and commercial analysis skills, able to interpret sales, margin and inventory metrics.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to lead cross‑functional projects.
  • Knowledge of product specification, costing and supply chain processes, with experience of working alongside offshore suppliers an advantage.
  • Organised, proactive and able to prioritise competing demands in a fast‑paced retail environment.

Preferred

  • Degree or equivalent experience in marketing, business, product design or a relevant discipline is desirable.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary with role appropriate bonus and performance incentives.
  • Colleague discount across our product ranges.
  • Health and wellbeing support including employee assistance services and cash‑back options for selected therapies.
  • Financial: Group Income Protection and pension scheme provided by Legal & General.
  • Leave: generous annual leave entitlement with buy & sell flexibility and enhanced parental leave.
  • Your Career: learning and development programmes and access to internal progression opportunities.
  • Group Life Assurance of 2x annual salary and ongoing recognition schemes.
  • (qualifying periods apply)
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Bensons for Beds

LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.

Founded in 2009
Bristol, England, GBR
31 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
425M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
31.4%
Referral
5.8%
Social
4%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
670