Marks and Spencer
Product Manager - Space & Assortment
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Product Manager - Space & Assortment
Space & Assortment Product Manager – Role Description
Summary
As the Space & Assortment Product Manager, your mission is to design and deliver cohesive tools and services that empower business stakeholders to manage ranging, assortment, space, and display planning effectively.
Your responsibilities include:
- Eliminating existing manual/parallel processes, exceptions, and duplication to enhance operational efficiency within the Food Group and expand capability across Fashion, Home & Beauty.
- Defining the strategy for your team, crafting a roadmap and prioritised backlog to meet business goals.
- Aligning with yearly/quarterly objectives and success metrics accountable to both you and your teams.
- Collaborating with ‘BAU’ Product Squads, programme teams, and internal/external stakeholders to execute strategy and optimise processes.
- Actively shaping the team structure while ensuring accountability for the domain and serving as the key subject matter expert within Foods Design & Technology (D&T).
What You’ll Do
- Define and influence product vision to optimise business outcomes, balancing customer needs, product health, and industry trends—while ensuring resilient, scalable solutions across Marks & Spencer (M&S).
- Collaborate with partners to sync business, product, and technical priorities, guiding direction and promoting the roadmap.
- Prioritise and manage the backlog, breaking down user stories, features, and functionality to resolve pain points and improve customer deliverables.
- Partner with a cross-functional squad (Analysts, Engineers, UX/UI Designers) across product lifecycle stages, defining and tracking success metrics while ensuring alignment.
- Oversee business case development, DevOps processes, and launch readiness; stay ahead of industry trends and chase innovation opportunities to maintain M&S’s leadership in ranging, space, and display solutions.
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Who You Are
We’re looking for these key strengths:
- A passion for product management and mastery of balancing customer needs with strategic goals.
- Strong collaborative prioritisation skills across cross-functional teams and multiple disciplines.
- Analytical-logical decision-making, coupled with clear communication across diverse stakeholders.
- Awareness of Agile practices, product health models, and performance metrics.
- Practical experience in product tools and workflows—bonus points if you’ve worked in retail, space, or space & display planning.
What’s in it for you?
Working at M&S is about making a difference—helping millions daily through quality, value, and outstanding service. Our environment is inclusive, relentlessly ambitious, and future-focused, putting purpose first and driving impact.
Explore just a few of the benefits that make working at M&S rewarding:
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- 20% colleague discount: Enjoy savings on M&S products + third-party brands for you and your household, once probation passes.
- Competitive holiday allowance + optional pay extension.
- Discretionary bonus schemes tied to performance and company success.
- Stronger pension/life assurance to support your financial future.
- Tailored onboarding/training designed to accelerate your career progression from day one.
- Exclusive perks and savings portal (M&S Choices) to unlock more value.
- World-class family policies, including parental, adoption, and neonatal leave options.
- 24/7 wellbeing support—virtual GP access, mental health services, and more.
- One paid voluntary day per year, allowing time to champion causes you care about.
Everyone’s Welcome
We are transforming retail: boldly innovating, disrupting, and owning the next wave of digitally conscious, values-led retail. By fostering conscientious leadership, we build an industry that’s inspiring, forward-thinking, and purpose-driven.
M&S is committed to inclusivity—inviting every perspective to excel and create. We celebrate diversity, offer critical recruitment adjustments if needed, and believe strength grows when teams incorporate each person’s whole self.
If you need adjustments to excel during application or recruitment, please let us know.
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