Technical Standards Manager
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Job Description
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.
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What you'll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
• Proactive support at design development stage ensuring full consideration for H&S, durability, accessibility and sustainability.
• Creation and maintenance of equipment manuals liaising with Stores Space teams
• Work with suppliers directly to find innovative and low cost solutions
• Seamless landing of black seal to trial retail landing
• Ensure information is of a suitable level of detail for installers and manufacturers
• Store Development primary point of contact for Compliance, H&S and Business Continuity teams
• Ensure that the Accessible Design guide is followed
• Sustainable design modeling and reporting
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:
• Thorough understand of equipment standards including H&S and weight testing
• Retail and/or manufacturing experience to fully understand end to end use
• Understanding of material specifications to ensure they meet M&S requirements
• Ability to use relevant software/processed for drawings registers
• Supply Base Management experience and technical understanding of a manufacturing or service industry
• Data Analysis to generate reporting for Management Information requirements and issue resolution.
• A commercial perspective on all aspects of design and ongoing operating costs.
Everyone's welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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