Product Assistant

Revolution Beauty Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty brand is seeking a passionate Product Assistant to support innovative product development. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely product launches and executing trend analysis. As part of a hybrid model, you'll engage in a dynamic work environment that values creativity and productivity.

Qualifications

• Passion for beauty and trend-driven.
• High level of Microsoft Office knowledge.
• Highly organised and adaptable.

Responsibilities

• Support Product Managers with new product development.
• Monitor product timelines and supplier updates.
• Assist with product concepts, shade work, and collaterals.

Skills

Trend-savvy

Digital native

Passionate about beauty and social media

Highly organized

Innovative

Tools

Microsoft Office

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

We are looking for a Product Assistant to supports the Product team. You will be assisting the product manager with the execution of NPD & core product development.

We're looking for someone who is trend-savvy, a digital native, and genuinely passionate about beauty and social media. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our products stay ahead of trends and resonate with our audience.

This role is fast-paced, ever-changing, and requires a team member who is confident in self-managing and prioritising tasks, working to tight deadlines, while maintaining a consistent level of productivity and output.

What you’ll do:

• Support the Product Manager/Junior Product Manager with new product development (NPD).
• Monitor product & suppliers CPA’s (critical path management). Ensure timelines of product development are met & update manager on any supplier delays or changes to products weekly.
• They will work with team from concept to launch of new products. Involved in brainstorming, trend research, briefing, sampling, testing & launching new products.
• Product focused bring and put forward ideas for new products, trends.
• Competitor & market aware. Looking at pricing/offer and newness.
• Support the product & brand team in identifying key product, social & global trends. Be market aware & trend reactive. Create where needed new in trend reports, competitor reports.
• Assist Product Manager with shade work and product development where required. Concepts, shade work, ideation & overall product development.
• Oversee product & business sample management. Working with the supply base and warehouse teams to ensure samples arrive on time. Supporting other teams with sample requests including the photography, sales & trade marketing teams.
• E-commerce imagery approval & support photography/content teams.
• Supplier focused work with product supply base to ensure key deadlines are met. Weekly CPA tracking and updating teams.
• Update Product and commercial packs with up-to-date information and imagery of products.
• Assist and complete handover forms & sign off packs of new product information to the business.
• License & Collaboration support – assist with licensed concepts, uploads and approvals
• Work alongside product design and compliance technical teams on artwork & product design.

What you’ll have:

• Needs to be passionate about beauty be trend driven and have active social engagement.
• High level of Microsoft office knowledge needed. PowerPoint & Excel proficient.
• Highly organised, adaptable with the ability to multitask.
• Confident and able to put forward ideas & be innovative.
• Team player happy to work alongside brand team & with other cross functional teams in the business.
• Driven and focused able to work to deadlines.

Being part of Revolution
Our purpose is to create incredible quality, socially driven, cruelty-free and vegan AFFORDABLE BEAUTY that every person can enjoy. We feel exactly the same about working for us, there should be something for everyone and we want to create an environment that everyone enjoys and feels empowered it. Our roles offer a lot of autonomy and opportunity – to deliver, to grow and to collaborate. Inclusivity is at the heart of what we do, everyone has the chance to make a difference, and what we do, we do together.

We currently operate on a hybrid model, offering 3 days a week in the office and 2 days working from home.