We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.
Design cycling apparel built for movement, endurance and the ride ahead.
At Pentland Brands, every role helps move our brands forward. Whether you’re supporting our people, improving our systems, growing our commercial performance, strengthening operations or shaping better ways of working, your impact reaches across a portfolio of iconic brands used by consumers around the world.
Responsible for implementing and maintaining the PLM application as a PLM IT Support Team member. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to analyse requirements, develop strategies, and provide technical guidance to ensure successful PLM implementations and ongoing operations. You will understand the product concept to launch business processes, suggest continuous improvements / new initiatives that you will then deliver/support technical solutions to the end-user. This is a multi-faceted role that has great opportunities to explore new technologies for example, Power BI, Adobe Illustrator, CLO 3D, Miro, Key shot, Dropbox and VibeIQ in conjunction with DeSL PLM.
What you’ll be doing:
Understanding business priorities to follow escalation procedures for complex issues, ensuring they are addressed by the appropriate personnel or teams within established expected timelines that meet the department’s SLA.
Incident Management:
a) Maintain incident management process to document, prioritize, and resolve IT-related incidents and service requests efficiently including communicating with both all Internal and External stakeholders throughout, until resolved.
b) Review service desk tickets as part of the PLM IT Support Team responsible for handling user enquiries and support tickets related to PLM system. With an understanding of working within agreed SLA’s and meeting team targets.
Be a team player, communicating, investigating and solutionising – working as one seamless unit, within the PLM IT Support Team and in turn within the Pentland Digital & Technology Team Department.
Listen & provide Participate and contribute recommendations of solutions or options to any item or question raised and, in turn review available documentation before discussing options with the PLM IT Support Team to best solve the issue.
Requirements Gathering:
a) Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and document requirements, ensuring a clear understanding of their needs and translating them into actionable IT solutions.
b) To act as bridge between our PLM service provider and PLM userbase through clear documentation and verbal communication
Root Cause Analysis:
Conduct root cause analysis on recurring issues to identify underlying problems and implement preventive measures to minimize future incidents.
Maintain a comprehensive knowledge base and documentation repository for common issues, troubleshooting procedures, and frequently asked questions to facilitate self-help and knowledge sharing.
Support & encourage change management strategies to facilitate the adoption of new technologies and processes among end-users.
Understand the data flow from PLM > ERP > E-commerce site (D2C as well as B2B), rules and regulations to ensure the stakeholders follow the business protocols, including new requests for data input fields. Including integration with subsequent systems. Additionally, an awareness of other data routes that contribute to company the reporting suite.
Prepare with a clear agenda, reference aides and PLM User Guides to deliver successful training sessions both in-person or via an online Teams call to the global DeSL PLM user community.
Communicate updates clearly to all necessary user groups and stakeholders, in a timely manner.
Be mindful of system security procedures, maintaining valid user licenses.
What you’ll bring:
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) experience in DeSL PLM software and/or any other PLM system e.g. Centric, Flex PLM, WFX, Dessault, Infor PLM etc. Experience can be in any one of the following types of roles:
PLM Support, PLM Configuration Management, Product Data Management, PLM Super User or PLM Trainer.
A good understanding of the product creation process including colourways and Tech Packs is a must for any of the following product categories: apparel (ideal), equipment, accessories and / or footwear.
Working with business teams to help embed and streamline business wide initiatives (from business processes / ways of working to data formats and validating).
Knowledge of roles such as Product Design & Development, Global Product Manager, Regional & Global Product Merchandising & Planning, Sourcing & Technical Design. Including an excellent understanding of measurement size charts (including templates, grade rules, tolerances) and / or global costing of a product would be very useful to understand the complexities of the PLM User community’s requirements.
Experience using JIRA and Fresh Service (ticketing system) would be useful.
Why Pentland Brands?
Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers and Mitre.
We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions and locations, we work together to create products, experiences and partnerships that help people live more active, confident and positive lives.
Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition and global impact.
Perks & Benefits
Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance, hybrid and flexible working, employee transportation, pension and gratuity contributions, wellbeing support, medical, personal accident & term life insurance cover.
You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page.
The Interview Process
We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:
Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.
