Product Data Manager / Taxonomy Consultant
Posted Today by Staff Worx
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London WC1A
Summary: The role of Product Data Manager / Taxonomy Consultant involves leading the redesign of a product catalogue for a multi-market retail corporation. The consultant will focus on structural design, optimizing operations, and addressing complexities within the existing system. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence foundational changes in the product catalogue. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in taxonomy and product data management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design the structure of the product catalogue
- Develop hierarchies (products, bundles, add-ons)
- Define attributes (entitlements, pricing, geo rules, content)
- Establish relationships (inheritance, compatibility)
- Leverage the existing product hierarchy and product vision as your starting point
- Target common, high-frequency operations that create pain, such as repetitive product creation and slow, manual 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: hierarchies, attributes, entitlements, pricing and geo rules
- Comfortable redesigning models rather than only optimising existing tooling
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Product Data Manager / Taxonomy Consultant
A leading multi-market retail corporation is undertaking a ground-up redesign of its product catalogue and is seeking an experienced Product Data / Taxonomy Consultant 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
- PIM and MDM tools such as Stibo Systems, Akeneo, Salsify, inRiver or Informat
- Salesforce Industries/Vlocity Enterprise Product Catalog (EPC)
To apply
Please send your CV, availability and outside IR35 expectations
Location London & remote working
Job Type Contract
market rates, outside IR35
Visa Requirement Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location