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Chandler's Ford
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Overview
6 month FTC
Up to £30,000 + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (At least 2 days per month)
Southampton, Store Support Office
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Product Data Specialist and you’ll be a big part of this.
What's the job?
Role Purpose: As a Product Data Specialist you will be responsible for the on-site execution of products in your category area, coordinating projects and working with stakeholders to ensure ranges are on-time and to-brief. Coordinate product lifecycle activity to ensure product accuracy, availability and accessibility for our customers across our ranges.
What we need:
- Manage range change activity to prioritise workload and deliver to planned launch deadlines. (Selling Data, Commercial, Ecommerce Trading, Supply)
- Establish yourself as a data expert and support for product QA queries.
- Responsible for final sign off individual product QA, ensuring products and assets meet brief requirements.
- Support investigation of systemic operational data discrepancies impacting product saleability
- Monitor workflow activity within PIM and Workfront management systems.
- Responsible for engagement and delivery of vendor portal, coordinate vendor training programme.
- Co-build and run an enrichment plan to improve product page data, facet completeness and content scores.
- Drive key projects within e-commerce, to develop process efficiencies and improvements to the product pages.
- Own new starter training/induction programme, including change to existing process.
- Optimise group data model, using customer insight in all decision making.
- Support Marketplace managing category enablement process to launch new marketplace product areas and lead marketplace related data model requests and changes for their category.
- Build cross-functional relationships to influence system development. (Selling Data, Data Maintenance, Change Control, PIM Development, IT Services)
- Uphold quality standards and content principles, set clear expectations for consistent output across the team.
- Run compliance reports to ensure all trading products meet legal regulations (UK/EU)
- Oversee the administration of data models and subgroup creation / amendments for all 1P and 3P products. Ensure current responsibilities within the role are adequately captured, including OLC maintenance (online catalogue), promotional/campaign roundel management, and fulfilment availability.
What's in it for me?
As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.
We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!
So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact [email protected] for any recruitment adjustments.
Other facts
About B&Q
We are the UK’s leading home improvement and garden living retailer with over 311 stores throughout the UK and Ireland, offering great prices, with over 100,000 products available to order at diy.com for home delivery or click and collect.
We launched the UK’s first home improvement marketplace in March 2022, adding additional choice for consumers. The marketplace offers a unique, integrated experience with in-store returns for many products and Click + Collect options being explored.
Our team of more than 21,000 colleagues of all ages are respected nationwide for providing great home improvement help to customers. They’re the beating heart of B&Q and their iconic orange aprons are worn with pride.
Every year, more than 20 million people improve their homes and make life better with B&Q, and every year the company achieves ever-higher standards for sustainable sourcing and supports our local communities, including funding B&Q Foundation grants and Shelter’s DIY Skills Advisors. For more information on our community initiatives visit diy.com/corporate/community
To read our latest Build a Life project report visit diy.com/responsible-business.
B&Q is part of Kingfisher plc, the international home improvement company, operating 2000 stores in 8 countries across Europe.
What you'll do
- The Product Data Specialist will manage product execution and lifecycle activities, ensuring product accuracy and availability. They will also coordinate projects and engage with stakeholders to meet launch deadlines.
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