PRODUCT AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OWNER London, England
Job description
Dr. Martens is a globally recognisable and culturally influential British brand, with over 60 years of rich heritage. As brand custodians, we are lucky to work for a dynamic, thriving, and ethical business, with people from diverse backgrounds, who bring their true selves to work, and where anyone can grow their career.
We are guided by three core values that are at the heart of everything we do: be yourself, act courageously, and show you care. They make us who we are and inspire us to push boundaries, embrace our individuality, and stand up for what's right.
THE GIG
Dr Martens is continually investing in its processes to create Iconic product. As part of this process, we are investing in projects to improve our cross functional product merchandising, design and development processes as well as implementing a Product Lifecycle Management tool to improve the speed and efficiency of the process.
As our Product and Development Process Owner you will be responsible for:
- Working across functions and projects to capture existing processes, identify opportunities for improvement and build a plan to deliver change across people, process and technology
- Lead and embed the change required to gain benefits from the implementation of a Product Lifecyle Management tool
- Collaborate cross functionally to create business process requirements for tools that support the product merchandising, design, and development processes
- Proactively build and lead an internal user community to ensure sharing of knowledge and best practice on PLM
- Provide first line support to business users and work with technology and the solution provider to resolve and improve utilization of the tool
- Facilitate UAT testing and execution with the business users and technology to ensure the process is robust and effective
- Create and track seasonal GTM calendars
- Ownership and responsibility to maintain seasonal documentation. Working cross-functionally to monitor and document progress, holding stakeholders accountable
- Constantly exploring improvements within our seasonal GTM process
THE STUFF THAT SETS YOU APART
Put simply, for this role the key things we’re looking for are:
- Relevant work experience working with product merchandising, design and development processes supported by a PLM tool in a consumer goods business, ideally footwear
- Ideally from a GTM, C2C, product merchandising or development background with experience in product design, category management and product development
- Experience of managing and facilitating change
- Strong stakeholder management skills with experience of working with all levels of an organisation from senior leadership to end users
- Experience in building and maintaining a seasonal calendar process, ideally in branded footwear
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Hybrid working
- Welcome to the family free pair of Docs
- 65% off all Docs
- Award-winning ‘Buy As You Earn’ Dr. Martens share plan
- Private healthcare
- A dedicated culture team
- 2 paid volunteer days per year
- Amazing Camden based offices with roof terrace overlooking the canal
Are you ready to fill your boots? Apply now.
At Dr. Martens, we are committed to creating an environment in which we can all be our best and bring our authentic selves to work. We encourage applications, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, or disability. Diverse and inclusive teams have a positive impact on our brand; helping us to speak authentically to our consumers.
