The Role
Owns product catalogue management capabilities for a global luxury marketplace. Responsibilities include understanding customer and partner needs, analyzing competitors and market trends, defining requirements and roadmaps, designing scalable solutions, and collaborating with engineering and cross-functional teams throughout product development. The role requires an agile, test-and-learn approach, strong communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to manage complex problems independently.
Summary Generated by Built In
Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry, connecting customers in over 190 countries with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands and charming boutiques from around the world. Farfetch opens a world of luxury for endless expressions of style, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.
TECHNOLOGY
The Technology team builds end-to-end products and solutions that power our marketplace, delivering an incredible experience for customers globally. From understanding customer and partner needs to designing and testing innovative hypotheses, we create industry-leading experiences for luxury customers everywhere.
PORTO
Our office is near Porto, in the north of Portugal, and is located in a vibrant business hub. It offers a dynamic and welcoming environment where our employees can connect and network with a large community of tech professionals.
THE ROLE
You'll be instrumental in delivering product catalogue management capabilities that will allow our partners to brilliantly manage their growing curated catalogues with reduced time to market. It's an exciting moment at Farfetch where our extensive catalogue is a key success factor and will continue to evolve to deliver even more self-service, automation and resilient capabilities to our stakeholders and support our business growth.
WHO YOU ARE
- Passionate about developing customer centric products
- Able to think globally/strategically, frame new and complex problems and break them into smaller ones
- Capable of structuring information and have great attention to detail to define clear requirements
- Ability to develop and maintain effective product roadmaps
- Experience in adopting a test and learn approach to building products to inform product direction.
- Proven experience working with cross-functional teams during the entire lifecycle of product development for complex products
- A professional with excellent communication skills written and verbal; English is mandatory
- A team player and a professional with strong negotiation skills
- Comfortable working under pressure in a fast-paced environment handling multiple product evolution happening at once
- Experience working on ecommerce marketplaces, product catalogue management or merchandise management is highly desirable
- Knowledgeable of the scrum methodology is a plus
- Knowhow in Merchandise management highly desired
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Champion to the needs of customers throughout the development process by designing scalable and robust products;
- Analyzes competitors and market trends; develops detailed requirements, feature definitions, implementation plans, and internal communications.
- Participate in cross-functional teams during the entire lifecycle of product development - pre impact analysis, deployment and post-deployment activities.
- Work with engineering teams in order to deliver value to the company via agile product development flows and deliverables.
- With complete independence, be able to design solutions, deconstruct complex problems into more manageable blocks and support delivering them as part of an agile project framework
REWARDS & BENEFITS
- Health insurance for the whole family and other well-being resources
- 25 Days of Annual Leave (above the statutory) and additional Caring Days (2 days per year) and Boomerang: sabbatical program after 5 years service
- Training opportunities and free access to LinkedIn Learning
- Flexible benefits program
- Flexible working environment
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process.
We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
SCAM DISCLAIMER
- It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels, other than our official careers website. Additionally, Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.
Skills Required
- Passion for developing customer-centric products
- Ability to think globally and strategically, frame complex problems, and break them into smaller problems
- Strong information structuring and attention to detail for defining clear requirements
- Ability to develop and maintain effective product roadmaps
- Experience using a test-and-learn approach to inform product direction
- Proven experience working with cross-functional teams throughout the product development lifecycle
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; English is mandatory
- Strong teamwork and negotiation skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment while handling multiple product evolutions
- Experience with ecommerce marketplaces, product catalogue management, or merchandise management
- Knowledge of Scrum methodology
- Knowledge of merchandise management
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The Company
What We Do
FARFETCH is the leading global platform for the luxury fashion industry. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers. Founded in 2007 by José Neves for the love of fashion, and launched in 2008, FARFETCH began as an e-commerce marketplace for luxury boutiques around the world. Today the FARFETCH Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,300 of the world’s best brands, boutiques and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a single platform. FARFETCH’s additional businesses include Browns and Stadium Goods, which offer luxury products to consumers, and New Guards Group, a platform for the development of global fashion brands. FARFETCH offers its broad range of consumer-facing channels and enterprise level solutions to the luxury industry under its Luxury New Retail initiative. The Luxury New Retail initiative also encompasses FARFETCH Platform Solutions, which services enterprise clients with e-commerce and technology capabilities, and innovations such as Store of the Future, its connected retail solution.
