Product Design Research / R&D Assistant

About the job

Job Title: Product Design Research / R&D Assistant

Location: Blackpool

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

About Us:

The Glasdon Group is a market leader in the design, marketing and supply of award winning environmental and Safety products across the world.

About The Role:

Are you looking for an exciting, challenging and rewarding long-term career opportunity?

Our success at designing innovative new products is attributable to our commitment to excellent Research, Development and Product Design. To ensure ongoing group expansion, we are looking for a self-motivated individual with either a product design or marketing background to help identify and develop new product opportunities across all market sectors at home and abroad.

If you have a genuine desire to succeed and wish to join a progressive, global Company with excellent opportunities and benefits then look no further…

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct market research
• Identify new product ideas
• Monitor trends and market opportunities
• Manage concept creation
• Develop concepts through customer research
• Write design briefs
• Face to face research meetings
• Business travel

About You:

• Have a product design or marketing related degree (minimum 2.1)
• Skilled in research
• Innovative and forward thinking
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Technically and commercially minded
• Friendly, personable and willing to travel
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task
• An effective individual and team worker
• Valid UK Driving Licence (Essential)

Benefits:

• A competitive commencing salary
• 33 days paid holiday
• A comprehensive training programme
• Company final salary pension scheme after a minimum of two years' service
• Life insurance after a minimum of two years' service
• Pension through NEST within 3 months of start date
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Long service awards
• Private health insurance scheme after a minimum of one year's service
• Subsidised on-site Café
• Free on-site parking

Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of: Presentation Skills, Project Management, Product Design, CAD, Solidworks, Drawing, Sketching, Concept, Production, Software, Organisation, 3D, Research, Innovation, Graduate, Creative, Manufacturing, Model Making, Product Development, Marketing, Front End Research, Face to Face Research, Problem Solving, Multi-tasking and Project Lifecycle may also be considered for this role.

The Glasdon Group Limited is an equal opportunities employer.