GLL is looking for National Junior Product Manager, to work across all GLL venues nationally. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a National Junior Product Manager, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a National Junior Product Manager job, it's a career.
The Role of the National Junior Product Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all junior products operations across GLL centres nationally. Ensuring that quality is delivered consistently, compliance with safety standards, and alignment with GLL’s and customer expectations. The National Junior Product Manager will focus on product development, cost control, staff training and supplier relation management to maximise customer and client satisfaction and profitability.
What you’ll do:
* Strategic product development and support for trampoline parks, soft play & birthday parties.
* Operational guidance & supporting documents.
* Training & development of staff.
* Programme enhancement, development of new products concepts & business modelling.
* Management & monitoring of products performance and quality through strict KPI codes.
* Management of corporate suppliers
* To ensure and promote our ethical & social status
* Reporting to Senior Managers
What you need:
* The proven ability to effectively lead, manage, motivate and develop staff. And the ability to work as part of an effective team.
* The ability to analyse business issues and prepare business and marketing plans.
* The ability to research, prepare, justify and present project reports.
* The ability to produce results to demanding deadlines and work on a number of key issues simultaneously.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills and IT literate.
* Ability to innovate and find creative and practical solutions to complex problems and to exploit new opportunities
As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!
The basics:
* This is a Full time 40 hours per week.
* We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay
* We can offer a career, not just a job with extensive Learning & development support available.
* A uniform will be supplied and must be worn
* GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
* As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and t have a stake in your business
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Additionally GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:
* Access to a pension scheme.
* Health Assurance and access to Counselling services
* Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
* Free annual eye tests
* Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!
GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:
* The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you
* Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc
* Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet
About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.
One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
- A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
- A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.
So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.
However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.
We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.
To be shortlisted for the role, internal applicants will need to demonstrate their commitment to GLL by becoming a Society member where eligible.