Product Catalogue Architect / Taxonomy Consultant (Contract)
Posted 1 day ago by Totaljobs
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
Central London (W1)
Summary: The Product Catalogue Architect/Taxonomy Consultant will lead the redesign of a multi-market B2C corporation's product catalogue, focusing on structural design from first principles. This role involves optimizing operations while navigating complexities and legacy constraints. The consultant will address high-frequency operational pain points and leverage existing hierarchies to create a more efficient catalogue model. This position offers a significant opportunity to influence foundational changes within the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design the structure of the product catalogue including hierarchies, attributes, and relationships.
- Leverage existing product hierarchy and vision as a starting point.
- Target common operational pain points such as repetitive product creation and slow catalogue tasks.
- Balance first-principles thinking with pragmatic handling of legacy and migration realities.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Taxonomy Consultant, Information Architect, or Product Data Specialist.
- Track record on large-scale commerce or content platforms.
- Strong grasp of catalogue modelling including hierarchies, attributes, entitlements, pricing, and geo rules.
- Experience with catalogue-driven business support systems and commerce platforms.
- Familiarity with PIM and MDM tools.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Central London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Product Catalogue Architect/Taxonomy Consultant (Contract)
Location: [London, remote and hybrid)
A leading multi-market B2C corporation is undertaking a ground-up redesign of its product catalogue and is seeking an experienced Product Catalogue Architect to lead the structural design.
This is not a tidy-up exercise. You will rethink the catalogue model from first principles, optimising for the operations that genuinely matter, while working within real multi-country, multi-proposition complexity and legacy constraints. The business is prepared to make significant changes and clean-up, so this is a genuine opportunity to shape the foundations.
What you will do
- Design the structure of the product catalogue
- Hierarchies (products, bundles, add-ons)
- Attributes (entitlements, pricing, geo rules, content)
- Relationships (inheritance, compatibility)
- Leverage the existing product hierarchy and product vision as your starting point
- Target the common, high-frequency operations that currently create pain, such as repetitive product creation and slow, manual catalogue tasks
- Balance first-principles thinking with pragmatic handling of legacy and migration realities
What we are looking for
- Proven experience as a Taxonomy Consultant, Information Architect or Product Data Specialist
- Track record on large-scale commerce or content platforms
- Strong grasp of catalogue modelling: hierarchies, attributes, entitlements, pricing and geo rules
- Comfortable redesigning models rather than only optimising existing tooling
- Platform experience (any of the following an advantage)
- Catalogue-driven business support systems and commerce platforms such as Sigma Systems, Hansen, Amdocs, Netcracker or Oracle Communications
- Salesforce Industries/Vlocity Enterprise Product Catalog (EPC)
- PIM and MDM tools such as Stibo Systems, Akeneo, Salsify, inRiver or Informatica
To apply
Please send your CV, availability and outside IR35 expectations
London & remote working
3-6 months initial, likely extension
market rates, outside IR35