Product Technologist (Accessories) - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover)
Hybrid - Handforth Support Office
At Pets at Home, we're passionate about creating products that help pets and their owners live happier lives together. We're looking for a curious, detail-oriented Product Technologist to join our Accessories team on a 12-month maternity cover contract.
If you're someone who enjoys understanding how products are designed, manufactured and improved, and you have a passion for quality, innovation and delivering a great customer experience, we'd love to hear from you.
Working closely with Buying, Asia Sourcing, suppliers and a range of cross-functional teams, you'll play a key role in developing safe, high-quality pet accessories from concept through to launch.
You'll ensure products meet our technical, quality and compliance standards, helping to turn great ideas into products our customers and pets can trust. From reviewing specifications and product testing to supporting supplier quality and continuous improvement, you'll be involved throughout the entire product development journey.
You'll already have experience within a Product Technologist role and enjoy working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where no two days are the same.
To be successful you'll bring:
Why Pets at Home?
We're a business built around people who care deeply about pets and the people who love them. You'll join a supportive team where collaboration, innovation and development are encouraged, and where your work will directly contribute to creating products that make a real difference to pet owners across the UK.
Pets just see people. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect differences in all their forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can be their true self at work.
Ready to help shape the next generation of pet products? We'd love to hear from you.
Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/
