Career Opportunities at Tomy Europe
Tomy is one of the UK's largest nursery and toy manufacturers, with product ranges including Teletubbies, Thomas & Friends and Winnie the Pooh.
We offer exciting careers in a fast paced, often challenging but always rewarding environment across a number of areas including product development, finance, marketing, sales and operations.
PR Assistant (1 Year Placement)
Location: Sutton, Surrey
Reporting to: European PR Manager
About the role: This is an exciting opportunity to join TOMY for a year’s placement. You will be working closely with the European PR Manager to launch toys and nursery products in the UK and implement PR strategies across the European territories.
It is a fast paced and varied role in a lively, friendly office working on fantastic brands. One minute you will be promoting the world’s smallest bipedal humanoid robot, i-Sobot and showcasing your air guitar moves with Guitar RockStar. Next you will be getting creative with the best selling Aquadraw range while keeping Thomas & Friends on track and dancing with the Teletubbies.
You will be a brand ambassador for TOMY’s award winning range of baby monitors, ergonomically designed baby carriers and innovative nursery accessories.
Responsibilities will include:
- Assisting the European PR Manager across all products
- Facilitating a busy press office
- Developing great relationships with journalists
- Brainstorming new ideas, drafting press releases and pitching stories
- Organising events and product launches
We are seeking a bright, highly motivated, self- starter, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will need a genuine interest in the toy and nursery industry.
If you feel you are the right candidate for the role, please email your CV to pat.biggin@tomy.co.uk or call 020 8722 7300.
Key Account Manager
Location: Tomy UK
Reporting to: National Account Controller
Role Profile: You will take full commercial responsibility for an existing established key account base within the Toy Industry valued at around £3M at retail.
The candidate: The successful candidate will have strong commercial judgment, excellent planning, forecasting and communication skills with an ability to look beyond short term business challenges. An understanding of pricing and ranging strategies will be highly beneficial. This is a fully autonomous role with potential for good development and progression.
Key skills required:
- Numerate and analytical
- A strong communicator with good interpersonal skills
- Good commercial awareness
- Strong presentation skills
- Enthusiasm
- Strategic thinker
- Team player
Closing Date: 27th June 2008
If you have the skills we are looking for then please send/email your CV, including remuneration expectations, to pat.biggin@tomy.co.uk
Product Designer, NPD Europe
Location: Tomy UK
Reporting to: European Head of Design and Development
Role Profile: You will conceptualise and product product ranges for a variety of ages working from the European Marketing Brief, project manage pruducts from conception through development and engineering stages to shipment and maintain the schedul of each product and keep the team up to date in weekly meetings.
Measurement Criteria:
- Having all information and models/visuals organised and ready for each European Working Group and European Line Reviews.
- Timely delivery of Products.
- Milestone data to be up to date.
- Quality of the information provided to the vendor in the form of timely feedback and Engineering Hand-overs.
- Final project budget and target project budget differences.
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To apply for this role, please email your CV and a covering letter including to jean.mattey@tomy.co.uk
Junior Quality Assurance Technologist
Location: Totton
Reporting to: European Quality Assurance Manager
Role Profile:
- Ensuring all new product development for those lines assigned are in line with QA policies and proceedures
- Ensure all new products assiged have complete technical files including test certification
- Compile product specific Test Specification, including Tomy's Corporate Quality Standards and relevant European legislation
- Ensure compliance of the Tomy Europe Test Specification by in-house testing and processing of suppliers own testing
- Brief, check and approve the legislative, safety and quality aspects of artworks for new product development, product refreshes and artwork amendments
- Gather, record & disseminate data as required
Measurement Criteria:
- Development and approval of new products to NPD schedules
- Complete technical files at ATS
- Test Specifications completed accurately and verified by testing at ATS
- Accurate and timely data gathering and processing
- Artwork meets legislative, safety and quality requirements
- Returns and complaints data
To apply for this role, please email your CV and a covering letter including to pat.biggin@tomy.co.uk