Product Marketing Manager; Womenswear

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• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

This fantastic role is to drive our Womenswear category and product priorities, bringing product pull, customer insight and category clarity to the heart of Fashion marketing at M&S.

As Product Marketing Manager for Womenswear, you are the dedicated marketing partner to the Womenswear Business Unit, embedded in BU rhythms and planning cycles. You ensure Womenswear category strategies, product stories and customer propositions are shaped early, grounded in insight, and carried through consistently from product development and planning through to creative and activation.

The role ensures Marketing has a strong, credible voice at the start of Womenswear product and category decisions, not just at the point of campaign delivery. You represent the customer voice, champion product activation, and elevate Womenswear storytelling through clear, product-led excellence.

Working closely with the Head of BU Marketing, Strategy & Planning, and Brand Marketing campaign leads, you own the Womenswear category marketing strategy and plan that feeds into the annual and seasonal Marketing Strategy. You work collaboratively with Brand Marketing on key seasonal fashion moments (including Summer, Autumn and Winter campaigns) to identify the hero campaign product lines, while also planning and protecting the all-year-round (AYR) newness, hero and core product stories that drive consistent performance across the year.

This is a senior role, critical to driving Womenswear performance and product desire at scale.

• Own the Womenswear category marketing planning, aligned to BU priorities, customer needs and commercial goals
• Translate Womenswear product and range plans into clear, insight-led category strategies - define and plan how categories show up across the year
• Translate Annual BU priorities >
  Annual Category Marketing Plan >
  Seasonal planning >
  Product and Category plans >
  Activation
• Clearly articulate Womenswear priorities including product focus areas, customer missions and need states, hero vs supporting stories and all-year-round (AYR) drumbeats vs seasonal big bets
• Act as the Womenswear Category Marketing partner embedded in key critical-path forums: DPS, BUD and product sprints
• Work closely with Buyers, Designers, Developers, Technologists to extract the most compelling product detail, translate technical information into clear, customer-relevant marketing stories, ensure claims, positioning and category stories are credible and consistent
• Ensure Womenswear category and product strategies feed directly into the annual and seasonal Marketing Strategy
• Lead Womenswear category input into key seasonal moments (eg…