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Ellen Gandale

Summary

I’m currently Head of Product at Natures Menu, a leading UK pet food brand. I oversee all digital touchpoints and collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, retail operations, warehousing, and distribution teams to deliver seamless customer experiences and drive commercial performance.


Having recently relocated to Leicestershire, I'm looking for an opportunity to join Next and work on digital products.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Product

Natures Menu
London
11.2023 - Current

Natures Menu is a leading UK pet food brand founded in 1981.

  • Owned a growth-focused roadmap, which delivered a 16% improvement in acquisition, improved retention and supported our cost of acquiring customer to life time value goals (CAC:LTV)
  • Maintained the eCommerce site. Delivering improvements to enable marketing campaigns and operational warehouse improvements
  • Fostered a data-driven, experimentation-led culture—ensuring every feature was insight-backed and A/B tested before rollout

Product Director

Pollen
London
01.2020 - 08.2022

Pollen curated immersive group experiences, from music-filled weekends in Amsterdam to week-long cycling training in France.

  • Aligned strategies across four teams, fostering synergy with other collectives as part of the leadership team
  • Strategically redesigned and fortified the checkout process, resulting in a 6% increase in checkout conversion. Demonstrated system resilience, adeptly handling thousands of consecutive users

Head of Product

Drover
London
09.2017 - 01.2020

Drover was the leading B2C car subscription company in Europe with major operations in UK and France and was acquired by Cazoo in February 2021.

  • Leveraged data and customer insights to execute strategic experiments, yielding a 28% reduction in customer acquisition costs and improved NPS score following an iterative redesign of the purchase journey

Senior product manager

Walgreens Boots Alliance
Nottingham
12.2014 - 09.2017
  • Led the simultaneous conceptualization and execution of the digital strategy for international brands No7, Botanics, Liz Earle, and Soap and Glory

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Industrial Design & Technology

Loughborough University
United Kingdom
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Product execution
  • Customer insight
  • Data analysis
  • Product strategy
  • Team Leadership
  • Stakeholder management

VOLUNTEERING

  • Qualified Peer Supporter volunteering at award-winning charity Baby Umbrella where I provide early parenting support

Timeline

Head of Product

Natures Menu
11.2023 - Current

Product Director

Pollen
01.2020 - 08.2022

Head of Product

Drover
09.2017 - 01.2020

Senior product manager

Walgreens Boots Alliance
12.2014 - 09.2017

Bachelor of Arts - Industrial Design & Technology

Loughborough University
04.2001 -
Ellen Gandale