Assistant Technologist - Beauty at MS

, , United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

31 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

02 Nov, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Technical Skills, Communication Skills, Data Analysis, Product Specifications, Multi-tasking, Decision Making, Collaboration, Curiosity, Attention to Detail, Innovation, Quality Assurance, Compliance, Ethical Standards, Customer Focus, Safety Standards, Problem Solving

Industry

Retail

Description

Are you passionate about beauty, innovation, and quality? We’re looking for an Assistant Technologist to join our Beauty Team at M&S. In this exciting role, you’ll provide essential technical support to help deliver products that stand out for their quality, innovation, safety, compliance, and ethical standards, the values that set M&S apart from the High Street. If you’re detail-driven, curious about the latest in beauty and skincare, and ready to make an impact in a fast-paced, creative environment, we’d love to hear from you. 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. 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 Your key accountabilities will include Where appropriate take full technical responsibility for a range as well as providing support to the Technology team across the Department acting on behalf of the Technologist to represent M&S externally and the Department internally Support the co-ordination of day-to-day activities (e.g., risk analysis, wearer trials,) to protect the department from product safety, compliance, and ethical issues in line with legislation and policy. Work alongside the technologist to support delivery of the BU innovation strategy driving commercial customer focused benefit. Maintain integrity of product data within the department on M&S systems, working with sourcing offices to ensure suppliers are compliant in providing complete and accurate information as required to enable reporting. Compiling and analysing quality data to feed into BU and departmental strategy. Who you are Your skills and experience will include Ability to learn new technical skills, absorb information and manage own personal development. Excellent communication skills within GM technical function, design and buying, supply base and global Sourcing Offices. Multi tasked orientated working to tight deadlines, understanding when to take decisions and when to seek guidance. To be able to analyse data and drive insights to support strategic thinking. Knowledge and experience of creating product specifications. 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. #LI-AC1: #LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite#Notjustanyjob

Responsibilities

The Assistant Technologist will provide essential technical support to ensure product quality, innovation, safety, compliance, and ethical standards. Responsibilities include coordinating day-to-day activities, maintaining product data integrity, and compiling quality data for strategic insights.