Product Description Acquisition Specialist - 12 month fixed term contract

About the Position

Join Kingfisher as a Product Description Acquisition Specialist for a 12-month fixed term contract. Ensure compliance and data accuracy across all Kingfisher brands.

Responsibilities

• Project manage the end-to-end PDD collection process.
• Support the range team with data pre-population.
• Engage, train, and onboard vendors to the PIM system.
• Ensure vendors achieve agreed collection SLAs through PIM and Vendor Portal.
• Validate data against data model principles.
• Support range team data validation for accuracy.
• Send data to translation and support with queries.
• Deliver OEB PDD acquisition in line with the CPA to the agreed brief.
• Deliver validated and translated PDD, packaging data, and assets.
• Escalate and communicate risks and potential mitigations affecting range change as required.
• Become fully competent in the use of PIM and Vendor Portal.
• Work closely with the Change Control and PIM Development teams.

Requirements

• Essential:

  • Flexible approach – dealing with ad-hoc requests, balancing shifting priorities.
  • Collaboration – works with stakeholders to seek agreed outcomes.
  • Work effectively alongside 3rd party organizations.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills working in a multicultural environment.
  • Good personal organization, with the ability to set priorities and monitor processes.
  • Ability to adapt to changing priorities in line with working in a retail environment.
  • 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 organization.
  • 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.

We Offer

• Private Health Care
• Kingfisher Pension Scheme
• 25 Days' Holiday
• Staff Discount
• Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
• Life Assurance
• Bonus
• Kingfisher Share Save

About the Company

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.

Our Behaviours

At Kingfisher, being all-in means contributing fully to our ambitions, supporting one another, and helping create a culture where we succeed together.

We are open

Continuously curious. Listen to understand. Always improving.

We are brave

Aim high. Act with courage. Move with pace.

We win together

Lead with customer. Commit to deliver. Help each other win.

Application Process

What to expect from our application process...

1. Step 1: Application

   Send in your application via our Kingfisher Careers website.

2. Step 2: Review

   A member of the Talent Acquisition team will then review your application and let you know if you have progressed to the next stage of the process.

3. Step 3: Interview 1

   You’ll then have a telephone interview/one-to-one conversation with a recruiter.

4. Step 4: Interview 2

   As you progress, you’ll be invited to attend a face-to-face or virtual interview.

5. Step 5: Feedback

   Your recruiter will be in contact with feedback and, if successful, the details of your job offer!

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