Product Description Acquisition Specialist

Product Description Acquisition Specialist

• Project Manage the E2E PDD Collection process this includes:
• Supporting the range team with data pre-population
• Vendor engagement, training and onboarding to PIM
• Ensuring with vendors achieve agreed collection SLA though PIM and Vendor Portal
• Support range team data validation for accuracy
• Send to translation and support with queries
• Responsible for 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 use of PIM and Vendor Portal
• Working to consistently achieve high quality output
• Work closely with the Change Control and PIM Development teams

What's the job?

• Project Manage the E2E PDD Collection process this includes:
• Supporting the range team with data pre-population
• Vendor engagement, training and onboarding to PIM
• Ensuring with vendors achieve agreed collection SLA though PIM and Vendor Portal
• Data validation against data model principles
• Support range team data validation for accuracy
• Send to translation and support with queries
• Responsible for 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 use of PIM and Vendor Portal
• Working to consistently achieve high quality output
• Work closely with the Change Control and PIM Development teams

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 organisation, with ability to set priorities and monitor process
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities in line with working in 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

Employer: Kingfisher

Location: Hampshire, UK

Type: Contract