Product Content Assistant

NEXT Retail Ltd.; Northampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK fashion retailer is seeking a Product Content Assistant to optimize product data for online publication. The role involves managing an offshore team, ensuring product onboarding accuracy, and implementing SEO enhancements. Ideal candidates will have experience in content optimization and teamwork, along with a focus on efficiency using AI tools. The position offers various company benefits including discounts and bonus schemes.

Benefits

25% off most NEXT products

Company performance-based bonus

On-site Nursery available

Free on-site parking

Flexible gym memberships

Qualifications

• Experience in managing an offshore team and delegating tasks effectively.
• Skilled in product onboarding processes, ensuring accuracy.
• Familiarity with SEO strategies and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Process and optimize product data for online publication.
• Train and delegate tasks to offshore team effectively.
• Implement SEO best practices across product descriptions.

Skills

Offshore Team Management

Content Optimisation

SEO best practices

AI & Automation

Job description

Role Overview

The Product Content Assistant will be responsible for the hands‑on processing of product data and content for online publication alongside actioning commercial optimisation opportunities. These optimisation opportunities will be focused on SEO enhancements, actioning of updates from commercial testing to enhance on‑site product copy and imagery updates, working with reporting to devise the workload based on commercial ordering.

About you:

• Offshore Team Management – trains and briefs the offshore team, delegates tasks, ensures clear priorities, and drives process improvements.
• Product Onboarding Processes – products within the onboarding lifecycle, ensuring timely and accurate entry of descriptions, images, and attribution in alignment with stock availability.
• Content Optimisation – owns product titles, descriptions, SEO banner copy, attribution, and imagery, implementing SEO best practices and supporting A/B tests.
• AI & Automation – adopts and identifies ways to use AI and automation in daily workload, offshore team workload, and uses AI to implement opportunities for efficiencies; liaises between departments, collaborates with Trade, PC Transformation Lead, POs, Studio and Product Teams, and escalates complex issues to the Product Content Lead.

Company

At NEXT, not only are we one of the UK's largest fashion retailers, but we're also one of the largest listed companies, full‑stop. Selling our products and thousands of world‑famous brands, both in‑store and online in the UK and internationally. We’re growing fast and this is the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business. We are the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we are the market leader, with over 500 stores and the Next Online that operates in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Benefits

• 25% off most NEXT, MADE, Lipsy, Gap and Victoria's Secret products (when purchased through NEXT)
• Company performance based bonus
• Sharesave scheme
• On‑site Nursery available
• OFSTED outstanding in all areas
• 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
• Early VIP access to sale stock
• Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
• Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
• Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
• Free on‑site parking
• Financial Wellbeing – save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
• Apprenticeship – grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
• Direct to Work – discount online and in‑store, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
• Support Networks – access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
• Wellhub – discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more