Junior Technologist - Home Fragrance

Marks and Spencer; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a passionate Junior Technologist to join the Home Fragrance team. This role involves supporting product quality and innovative fragrance experiences. You will collaborate with suppliers and internal teams, ensuring compliance and excellence in fragrance products. The ideal candidate is detail-driven and excited about product innovation. Benefits include a colleague discount, competitive holidays, and various wellbeing support options. Join a company that values inclusivity and innovation.

Benefits

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus schemes

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Wide range of training programmes

Wellbeing support including 24/7 Virtual GP

Charity volunteer day

Qualifications

• Experience in the technical field of Home Fragrance.
• Ability to manage delivery of product specifications, innovation, and compliance.
• Strong analytical skills to support strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Develop market-leading products for the assigned category.
• Ensure all technical deadlines are met.
• Drive innovation aligned with Design and Product strategies.

Skills

Excellent communication skills within C&H Technical Function

Ability to interpret Departmental Strategy

Multi-tasked orientated

Data analysis and insights generation

Knowledge of creating product specifications

Job description

All the details

We're looking for a passionate and proactive Junior Technologist to join the Home Fragrance team. In this role, you'll support the delivery of exceptional product quality and innovative fragrance experiences that delight our customers and differentiate M&S from the rest of the High Street.

Working closely with suppliers, designers and internal teams, you'll help ensure every product meets our exacting standards for safety, compliance, ethics and performance. You'll assist in product development, testing and evaluation, helping to bring inspiring new fragrances and home ambience solutions to life.

If you're detail-driven, curious, and excited by the world of fragrance and product innovation, this is your chance to grow your technical expertise within a leading UK retailer and contribute to products our customers truly love.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third‑party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry‑leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Experienced and knowledgeable, with previous experience in the technical field of Home Fragrance.
• To technically develop market leading product for the assigned product category through managing the delivery of specification, innovation, safety, compliance and ethics, that differentiate M&S from competitors.
• Take technical responsibility for a range/department 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.
• Critical path, ensure all technical deadlines are met inline with the BU critical path and continually work to optimise lead‑time whilst maintaining product technical standards.
• Work alongside the Departmental Technologist to deliver innovation, driving commercial customer‑focused benefit inline with both the Design and Product strategy and Innovation strategy.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Excellent communication skills within C&H Technical Function, Design and Buying, Supply Base and Global Sourcing Offices
• Ability to interpret Departmental Strategy and provide insights based on technical knowledge
• Multi‑tasked orientated working to tight deadlines, understanding when to take decisions and when to seek guidance
• To be able to analyse data (CIU, Bizarre Voice, QPI's, PLM) and drive insights to support strategic thinking
• Knowledge and experience of creating product specifications

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.