Assistant Technologist Home Hardgoods

Join the Home Hardgoods team at M&S and play a key role in helping us deliver products that stand out on the high street. As an Assistant Technologist, you'll provide technical support across our Home Hardgoods range, ensuring products meet the highest standards of quality, safety, compliance, and ethical sourcing. Working closely with internal teams and suppliers, you'll help bring innovative products to life while protecting the trusted quality our customers expect from M&S. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your technical expertise within a fast-paced and collaborative environment on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

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

• Work alongside the technologist to support delivery of the BU innovation strategy driving commercial customer focused benefit.

• 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.

• Perform product benchmarking on behalf of the Technologist and keep informed of key trends and industry developments to build expertise.

• 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.

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.

What’s in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation

• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours

• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We are disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We are transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organ