Looking for Full Time Product Assistant Job
Location - London, Greater London
Contract type - Permanent
Position type - Full Time
Salary - competitive + Benefits
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business. From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that's unbeatable on flavour and innovation. We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food… This is M&S Food.
To assist the product development team in formulating, directing and delivering commercial product development for customers in line with category and project plans and business strategy.
We are looking for an individual with a design flair and passion for the non – food categories. An interest in the areas is a must and this role would suit an individual with a homewares, gifting or stationary background.
We have a flexible / hybrid approach - talk to us about part time or job share opportunities in this role, if it’s meaningful to you, it’s important to us.
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Manage online photography and content process for Hampers & Food gifts ensuring all product imagery and information is correct and showcases the product for our customers.
- Examine the marketplace and competition to keep up to date with trends in homecare/cards & wraps and gifting, lifestyle and packaging that influence the customer, market and potential product direction supported with regular reporting to product development team.
- Assist in delivering the stage gate process, managing all product samples, both incoming and outgoing, product information for photographic shoots, quality benchmarking, supplier meetings, press requests, travel tests and product sampling.
- Collate product information, samples and build product displays to support all internal events, including category reviews and product forums, and all external events, including conferences and press shows.
- Support the product development team in creating and coordinating presentations, accurate and timely management information, range planning documents and competitor & directional insight.
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:
- Highly organised at managing sources of information, systems and processes.
- IT skills in PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
- Automated New Product Development (NPD) systems.
- Positive, proactive and motivated mindset.
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