Kingfisher
Product Description Acquisition Specialist - 6 month fixed term contract
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Overview
We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama, and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.
The Role
The Packaging Compliance Manager will take full accountability for our Packaging data compliance process ensuring the delivery is executed fully and against newly established KPIs developed for the role.
The roles’ purpose is to ensure that OEB (own exclusive brands) product description data and assets are acquired, translated, and communicated within the agreed deadlines across all the KF Group. Those data and assets will be used for multiple purposes such as; packaging and online throughout the Group. You will be the representative of product description data in Project meetings with Category teams, providing updates to the current data status against CPA, raising any concerns, and mitigating any risks to data delivery. A key area of focus will be to work with Vendors to collect data, ensuring that all data is collected and available for all channels within the agreed deadlines.
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6 month fixed term contract
What's the Job?
- Project manage the E2E PDD Collection process, including:
- Supporting the range team with data pre-population
- Vendor engagement, training, and onboarding to PIM
- Ensuring vendors achieve agreed collection SLA through PIM and Vendor Portal
- Data validation against data model principles
- Supporting the range team data validation for accuracy
- Sending to translation and supporting with queries
- Responsible for the delivery of OEB PDD acquisition in line with the CPA to the agreed brief
- Responsible for the delivery of validated and translated PDD, Packaging data, and assets
- Ensure that risks and potential mitigations affecting range change are escalated and communicated as required.
- Becoming fully competent in the use of PIM and Vendor Portal
- Working to consistently achieve high-quality output
- Work closely with the Change Control and PIM Development teams
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What You'll Bring
- Flexible approach – dealing with ad-hoc requests, balancing shifting priorities
- Collaboration – works with stakeholders to seek agreed outcomes
- Work effectively alongside 3rd party organisations
- Good communication and interpersonal skills working with teams in a multicultural environment
- Good personal organization, with the ability to set priorities and monitor process
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities in line with working in a retail environment
Essential
- Ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines
- Attention to detail, accuracy is vital
- Good problem-solving skills
- Consideration to how something may impact other areas of the business
- Passionate about how data is used to help a customer buy a product and its importance within a Retail organisation
- Tenacious and resilient in the face of strong opinions
- MS Office, MS SharePoint, and MS Teams
Advantageous
- Product Information Management (PIM) systems and Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems
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