Senior Data Catalogue Technician

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. 
CREATIVE OPERATIONS
We're a creative family, building copy, data, and visual assets for each corner of the Farfetch E-commerce Platform. We are dedicated to providing gold-standard imagery, content, and digital production services for our partners and creating an engaging on-site experience for our customers.

THE ROLE

Ensure the accuracy, completeness and reliability of product information on the Farfetch platform. The role focuses on researching, validating and maintaining product data so that all items are correctly represented and meet the platform’s quality standards.

The role contributes to the production workflow by identifying inconsistencies, resolving data issues and ensuring that product information is accurate before being published online.

Support the product data lifecycle by contributing to ingestion, mapping, enrichment and quality control processes, ensuring products are published accurately and efficiently.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Ability to consistently deliver above targets across diverse workstations, while handling the most technical or ambiguous tasks to ensure production targets are met. Ideally, you will have experience working in an environment that is fast-paced and deadline-driven in a copywriting role. A background in fashion and/or e-commerce is preferred.

Product Data Creation & Maintenance

Analyse, create and edit product information according to Farfetch guidelines

Maintain accurate and structured product data within internal systems

Ensure completeness and consistency of product attributes and descriptions

Assist in product mappings during ingestion, aligning partner data with Farfetch-standard structures

Support product creation workflows

Data Validation & Quality Control

Verify and validate product information by cross-referencing multiple sources

Identify inconsistencies in product details such as names, descriptions and specifications

Compare product data to determine whether items are identical or represent variations

Perform quality checks to ensure data accuracy across key attributes

Maintain the quality of content on product pages

Research & Data Enrichment

Conduct online research to gather and confirm product information

Identify similar items across sources to support accurate data mapping

Extract key product attributes and enrich product records accordingly

Enrich product data to improve completeness and overall content quality

Review and edit adapted product content to ensure factually accurate and tone of Voice compliant descriptions

Issue Resolution & Process Improvement

Operational Troubleshooting: Acts as the first point of contact to resolve daily workflow blockers, ensuring the team's "go-live" pace is maintained.

Quality & Consistency Gatekeeper: Can do real-time quality audits (QA) to ensure data and imagery standards are upheld without sacrificing speed, and gives feedback to the teams

On-the-Job Mentorship: Can lead the technical onboarding of new members and provides continuous "desk-side" training to improve team efficiency.

Document issues and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders

Support the resolution of BAU mapping and ingestion issues, including missing mappings and data inconsistencies

Assist in identifying recurring data issues and flagging them to improve processes

Process Optimization: Identifies workflow improvements or tool shortcuts to increase daily productivity across the team.

WHO YOU ARE

Technical & Analytical Skills

Intermediate Excel skills;

B2+ English proficiency minimum, with proven on-the-job use for professional communication;

Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail;

Ability to identify patterns, anomalies, and inconsistencies in data;

Basic understanding of product data structures and mapping logic (preferred);

You have experience working within digital content writing;

You are a writer with a keen eye for detail and accuracy.

Operational Capabilities

Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple workflows without compromising quality;

Strong organizational and time management skills;

Comfortable working with internal systems and digital tools;

Ability to support BAU operations across Catalogue, Enrichment and Quality control.

Collaboration & Communication

Clear written communication skills;

Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across production workflows;

Curiosity and learning agility to adapt to new tools and processes;

Strong team player mindset, with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and shared goals;

Proactive attitude and willingness to support teammates across different workflows;

Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and contribute across multiple areas when needed;

Open to feedback and continuous improvement, with a focus on team success over individual output.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

• 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.