Associate Product Manager

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Job Description

Summary

We are looking for an Associate Data product manager, to support the delivery of our data strategy and enable our digital transformation. You will support in the design and creation of data products that will enable the democratisation of data for business areas, encouraging and facilitating a culture of data driven decision making.

As an Associate Product Manager you will be passionate about building data products that enables and delivers value, supporting the product management lifecycle from design and build through to launch and ongoing managed service.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

Please note this is a 12 Month FTC.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

• Management of products that leads to the delivery of our data strategy and value generation.
• Delivery of products with clear communication of the strategic vision, the products and our defined objectives.
• Collaborate closely with partners aligning business, product and technical priorities to ensure we deliver againt the product direction, promote the product roadmap and continually improve.
• Support a product or business domain delivery and stakeholder group.
• Promote strategy and find data opportunities, delivering measurable benefit.

Who you are

• Demonstrable passion and interest in data - confident and evangelical about the benefits of using data to drive an organisation.
• Experience within a junior product role, or strong experience within a data role with a record of playing a key role in a data transformation within Retail / FMCG.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging, influencing, and communicating to stakeholders.
• Have a passion for driving improved business performance through a data led approach and culture. • Experienced in collaborating with technical teams.
• Knowledge of data modelling and engineering practices.

Everyone's welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There's never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We're an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers thoughtfully.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.

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