Director of Commissioning Management

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Ascential Group Limited Full time

We are looking to hire a Director of Commissioning Management to join our Content Management team in London.

Working at WGSN

Together, we create tomorrow

A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.

WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.

Role overview

WGSN operates a successful Content Commissioning Management team for its Fashion product. We are now looking to extend this across all WGSN products; Insight, Interiors, Beauty, Food & Drink and Consumer Tech, and further products as we launch them. The role will suit a highly organised person who enjoys developing, optimising, and implementing smooth and clear processes in a highly creative environment.

The team

WGSN has successfully implemented commissioning management at WGSN Fashion. This new role will lead the roll out of commissioning management across the rest of WGSN and lead commissioning across all of WGSN.

Key accountabilities

  • Research and recommend a new Commissioning Management structure across WGSN to enable WGSN's highly talented content teams to deliver their work calmly, creatively and efficiently.
  • Build and establish appropriate clear and positive working practices for this structure.
  • Develop review mechanics for ensuring the teams are meeting customers' needs.
  • Seek out and implement opportunities to reduce duplication and inefficiency.
  • Encourage collaboration and multi-disciplinary ways of working.
  • Further develop WGSN's focus on sustainability, data and regional representation.
  • Ensure there is alignment between WGSN's macro forecasts and product specific recommendations.
  • Plan time for every content creator for personal development, unstructured research and reflection.
  • Being able to identify the best members of the team to take on tactical requirements as they arise.

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

  • Solid experience working in a similar role
  • Highly organised and responsible
  • Committed to WGSN's goals on diversity & inclusion and sustainability
  • Skilled at developing new and effective processes
  • High EQ and successful track record of working with creative talent who often need autonomy and space to do their best work
  • Enjoy finding ways to bring clarity and calm in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
  • Comfortable working with data: can source and analyse data to identify improvement opportunities
  • Experience of WGSN's customer profiles and can show understanding of their requirements
  • Ability to utilise and contextualise data to inform strategic decision making as well as understanding the key role that it plays within our content

Ascential's supporting beliefs

  • Focus: we ruthlessly prioritise and always keep things simple
  • All in: once we commit we deliver, with a clear focus on outcome
  • Trustworthiness, transparency & openness: transparency inspires trust & empowers
  • Be creative: we are smart, pro-active innovators
  • Facts: we always use data & insight to inform our work
  • Empathy: we can be relied upon for fairness and consideration
  • No silos: one team, one face, one reputation

What we offer

Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:

  • 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell up to 5 days
  • Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
  • Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness, and the Ascential Shares Scheme – opt in
  • Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
  • Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
  • Great learning and development opportunities.

More about WGSN

WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting.

We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow's consumer.

Our culture

An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.

Why choose us?

At Ascential, diversity, equity and inclusion is core to us. We're a company built around our people - and we're committed to supporting each and every one of them to be the best they can be. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas and different strengths and perspectives to Ascential. Our employee-led networks, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and EmPower: An Ascential Women's Initiative, help us to create a place where communities and allies can connect and share experiences. In addition, our Early Talent programmes help grow and foster diverse new talent for our sectors.

We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability , including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.

Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.

We have a truly flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile-working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been - and will continue to be - actively encouraged here.

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

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