Senior Category Product Technologist

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Fortnum and Mason Full time

**Senior Category Product Technologist**:
**Technical & Sustainability - Piccadilly**:
**Contract**:Permanent**
**Salary**:Competitive and Benefits***:
Our Head Office department is located in the heart of Piccadilly and occupies the 5th & 6th floor of our beautiful flagship store. This central London location, offers so much to explore including restaurants, bars, cultural sites, shopping and more, and only a short walk from the Green Park Tube Station and plenty of bus stops.

**Role Purpose**:
Fortnum & Mason are hiring for a Senior Category Product Technologist with a focus on Fashion, Beauty and Home.

In this role you will, technically lead and manage the technical and CSR aspects of the F&M New Product Development process for Category Own label products and proprietary brands, including supplier approval and specification sign off and be responsible for ensuring all products developed and launched meet external commitments, product safety and legal due diligence requirements.

The role will also coordinate and provide quantifiable updates on the technical areas of responsibility and will need to influence all area of the business to deliver NPD right first time.

A key requirement is an ability to technically lead and influence a cross functional team. To be able identify and drive positive changes collaboratively and to ensure any technical actions are delivered on time.

You will perform supplier site visits and audits of new and established suppliers. A key requirement of the role is an ability to drive positive changes within the supply base from processing sites down to growing and mining levels as well coordinating and providing quantifiable metrics to allow the real-time assessment of supplier performance against the businesses Technical & CSR targets and Operational procedures.

A full job description is available.
- Demonstrate good judgement, drive and influence
- To proactively drive the technical agenda and to take a leadership role in all technical matters
- Deliver on time every time
- To provide accurate and timely information
- Manage cross departmental relationships to ensure delivery of technical requirements
- Create and deliver long term sustainable relations ships with our supply base
- Good understanding of Quality management systems
- Strong questioning and probing skills to discover issues and to verify the accuracy of information, results and data
- Ability to drive positive change at supplier locations

Qualifications:

- Scientific degree or equivalent
- At least 3 years’ experience in a technical area in either retailing or manufacturing
- Experience in influencing cross functional teams to deliver new processes
- Gated development process experience is a key requirement
- Supplier auditing experience, specification creation and sign off experience is required

In return we offer the following fabulous benefits:

- A competitive salary
- Annual discretionary bonus
- A generous



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