Job ID: 11412Location: London, England, GBType: ContractSalary: USD market rates, outside IR35 per yearPosted: 2026-06-14Product Data Manager / Taxonomy ConsultantA 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.
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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 doDesign the structure of the product catalogueHierarchies (products, bundles, add-ons)Attributes (entitlements, pricing, geo rules, content)Relationships (inheritance, compatibility)Leverage the existing product hierarchy and product vision as your starting pointTarget the common, high-frequency operations that currently create pain, such as repetitive product creation and slow, manual catalogue tasksBalance first-principles thinking with pragmatic handling of legacy and migration realitiesWhat we are looking forProven experience as a Taxonomy Consultant, Information Architect or Product Data SpecialistTrack record on large-scale commerce or content platformsStrong grasp of catalogue modelling: hierarchies, attributes, entitlements, pricing and geo rulesComfortable redesigning models rather than xrnqpay only optimising existing toolingPlatform experience (any of the following an advantage)Catalogue-driven business support systems and commerce platformsPIM and MDM tools such as Stibo Systems, Akeneo, Salsify, inRiver or InformatSalesforce Industries/Vlocity Enterprise Product Catalog (EPC)To applyPlease send your CV, availability and outside IR35 expectationsLocation London & remote workingJob Type Contractmarket rates, outside IR35Visa Requirement Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location…