Junior Product Specialist

Role: Product Specialist

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Product Specialist will provide a service in analysing, assembling, and maintaining vehicle specification data and assets, to ensure the content created and used is both product and market-correct, and for use in direct marketing and web & digital-based media.  

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...

You are someone who likes to work in close collaboration with clients and brands. You are entrepreneurial and relish the opportunity to be a part of something new and dynamic. 

ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

The Product Information (P.I.) team includes a team of specialists, whom each have carline allocations, a Quality Checker, and a Cybrarian who handles the approved asset processing work to ensure we deliver the high quality expected from our client. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• Create, update and maintain a variety of vehicle specifications, and product and material lists, by extracting information from Client-supplied technical, engineering and marketing documentation and order guides 
• Create, update and maintain copy addendum documents containing carline key bulletpoints, and subsequent input from Word to Adobe InCopy 
• Act as a point of contact between the Product Information and Client Services teams, and Client for any product or technical query resolution 
• Validate Client Services briefs and add amends, based on Client-supplied documentation 
• Attend and, in rare cases, lead Client meetings to identify, define and advise gathered product expertise on both new and update level projects 
• Attend internal scrum meetings and act as a point of contact for PI for your allocated carline(s) 
• Liaise with various teams during the creation and updating of CGI-created product variant assets 
• Product check assets produced and, where applicable upload to in-house tool for Client approval 
• Create or product check briefs and mark-up’s for Still imagery or Animation content, collate references and add to briefing ticket, ready for CGI or Postproduction creation 
• Input and change management of Still imagery or Animation content metadata 
• Create and maintain asset matrices and trackers in Excel to track asset status from creation to client approval
• Assist Cybrarian with external agency asset requests
• Where appropriate and required product-check vehicles prior to reference gathering photography, which may require off-site visits. 

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• Confident communicator and able to contribute to client meetings 
• Proactive and able to show initiative 
• Thorough and methodical work ethic 
• Pragmatic approach and calm under pressure 
• Open to change, by learning and adopting new in-house systems 
• Analytical thinker, excellent problem-solving skills 
• Ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively 
• Team orientated 
• Previous experience within an analytical/technical field 
• PC literate, with a minimum of intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Job Id: 8552