Join our team and be part of a company that truly lives its values. With our expertise and commitment to innovation, we aim to build trust and make health and wellness accessible to all. By fostering inclusivity and care, we work collaboratively to improve the well-being of our colleagues, customers, and communities.

Holland & Barrett is undergoing large scale transformation across all functions of the business. Global Own Brand development is a key element to this. The vision for the business is to become the trusted partner for over 100 million people globally, to achieve their personal health and wellness goals, adding quality years to life.

You will play a pivotal role in supporting the Global Product Team to develop and launch a wide range of products to support customers health and wellness needs.  You will support the product development team in key administrative and practical tasks to support the development of products through the coordination of key activities throughout the stage and gate process which facilitates landing successful NPD.

This is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates or someone with retail or product/brand experience to kickstart their career in a fast-paced retail environment offering excellent career progression.

• Supports Product Developers and Programme Managers with key administrative tasks to support the team in driving and delivering against the NPD calendar including product analysis, project management tracking and reporting.
• Organises and support a wide variety of events including press events, internal stakeholder showcases and engagement sessions including stock ordering, marketing coordination, and full end to end set up.
• Facilitate and lead key internal benchmarking session for the team to stay up to date with all retail launches.
• Carry out market research and competitor research to support the product developers. product development strategy.
• Coordinate with the product developers all tastings both internally and externally including supplier meetings.
• Liaise cross functionally on all product information and samples to ensure we maximise every NPD launch including marketing, digital, social and PR

• Excellent PowerPoint, Excel and Word skills
• Experience supporting a team or hands on work experience
• Similar product development assistant experience from within retail or a brand is desirable
• Experience in organising information, or physical events is desirable
• Passionate about product, brand and the retail market
• Fantastic communication & organisational skills
• Comfortable with juggling multiple timelines and working in a highly agile environment
• A strong team player, adept at building effective relationships and stakeholder management.
• Highly accountable and great at problem solving.

Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:

• H&B Employee Discount - 25%
• Pension company contribution
• Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
• And many more!

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B. 

Holland & Barrett does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Please do not forward resumes to our job alias, employees, or any other company location. Holland & Barrett is not and will not be responsible for any fees if a candidate submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s). 

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