Product Content Assistant

About the Role

At NEXT, we are not only one of the UK’s largest fashion retailers but also one of the largest listed companies. We sell our products and thousands of world-famous brands, both in-store and online across the UK and Internationally. We are experiencing fast growth, which brings exciting opportunities for everyone in our business.

The Product Content Assistant will be responsible for the hands-on processing of product data and content for online publication. This role also involves actioning commercial optimisation opportunities, with a focus on SEO enhancements, updates from commercial testing to improve on-site product copy and imagery, and using reporting to prioritise workload based on commercial ordering.

About You

• Offshore Team Management: You will train and brief the offshore team, delegate tasks, ensure clear priorities are set, and drive process improvements.
• Product Onboarding: You will process products within the onboarding lifecycle, ensuring timely and accurate entry of descriptions, images, and attribution in alignment with stock availability.
• Content Optimisation: You will own product titles, descriptions, SEO banner copy, attribution, and imagery, implementing SEO best practices and supporting A/B tests.
• AI & Automation: You will adopt and identify ways to use AI and automation in your daily workload, for the offshore team’s workload, and to implement opportunities for efficiencies.
• Collaboration: You will liaise between departments, collaborating with Trade, PC Transformation Lead, POs, Studio, and Product Teams, and escalate complex issues to the Product Content Lead.

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland? We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer, and for Kidswear, we’re the market leader. At the last count, we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online platform, and it’s now possible to buy online from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

Benefits & Culture

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• 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 instore, 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

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.

Key skills/competency

• SEO
• Content Management
• Product Data Processing
• E-commerce Operations
• Content Optimisation
• Offshore Team Management
• AI and Automation Tools
• Digital Retail Strategy
• Copywriting and Editing
• Cross-functional Collaboration