Technical Admin Assistant - Sourcing

We’re looking for a passionate and data-driven individual to join our Fashion, Home & Beauty Sustainability team and support the delivery of our net zero and traceability strategies.

In this cross-functional role, you’ll work closely with Product Owners, IT, Raw Materials, Sustainability, and Sourcing Offices. You’ll be responsible for managing supplier and user data within our Origin platform and insights dashboards, helping to map lower-tier supply chains, and ensuring key dates and deadlines are clearly communicated across stakeholders.

This is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our responsible sourcing efforts and help shape the future of sustainability within the business.

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…

• 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!
• 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

• Manage users and supplier journeys within the Origin platform
• Support the ongoing development of the supply chain mapping and wet processor rating features within Origin.
• Map Supplier connections across the different parts of the supply chain
• Maintain and update dashboards with facility environmental data from several sources to monitor facility performance.
• Use data to create insight information for the sustainability and raw material teams
• Manage the critical path of project plans

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders of all levels.
• Proficient with data organisation and analysis using MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Excellent organisation & time management skills
• Attention to detail, particularly related to systems and data.
• Good at meeting facilitation

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.

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