Product Technologist

Product Technologist - Home Textiles

Little Hulton

1 - 2 Days WFH

12 Month FTC

Our client is a leading supplier of home textiles & homewares to the retail sector in the UK, who now have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Technologist to join their team based near Salford. This role will initially be offered on a 1 year fixed term contract.

The role:

An exciting opportunity for a Product Technologist in the Home Furnishings industry, supplying UK High Street retail and e-commerce sectors. Your job is to ensure a product moves from its design and development stage into the hands of the retailer or end user. You will work closely with internal stake holders, overseas manufacturers and the customer to fully meet or exceed expectations for product compliance, quality, packaging, sustainability, on time delivery and end user performance.

Key Duties:

• Work closely and collaboratively with teams across the business.
• Evaluate new developments/products to ensure they are suitable for bulk manufacture and compliant with UK/EU statutory requirements, meet performance requirements and customer expectation.
• Attend and contribute to pre-production & handover meetings via close liaison with Design, Development and Customer Account stake holders.
• Issue detailed product and packaging specifications to overseas manufacturers.
• Populate, maintain and manage relevant sections of a detailed critical path to ensure timely product launch. Communicate with overseas manufacturers to ensure key milestones are met.
• Attend & contribute to weekly critical path meetings.
• Take responsibility for assigned product categories. Provide regular updates with internal and external stake holders.
• Review strike-offs, bulk fabric, packaging proofs and red/gold seal samples against standards to ensure compliance to internal and customer requirements. Communicate appropriate approvals and rejections back to the supplier.
• Hold suppliers accountable and maintain KPIs. Encourage 'right first time’ sample submission within agreed deadlines.
• Ensure products are tested to relevant standards and perform product risk assessments where appropriate.
• Review test reports to ensure products are compliant and meet specified standards.
• Deal quickly and effectively with daily email communications to and from suppliers, customers and internal stake holders.
• Evaluate pre-shipment inspection reports in partnership with our overseas teams.
• Analyse product returns, faults and customer complaints to resolve issues quickly and efficiently.

Key Competencies and Experience:

• Experience in a similar role
• Enthusiastic team player, with a proactive approach, good communication skills and a collaborative attitude.
• Organised, and capable of prioritising multiple tasks.
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Confident to make decisions and take responsibilities, yet unafraid to seek advice.
• An inquisitive mindset, with a keen interest in developing themselves, and ambition to grow their insight and knowledge within the industry.
• A desire for continuous product excellence, and improvements.
• A 360-thinker able to see the bigger picture when problem solving.
• A strong communicator with ability to present confidently via email, audio conferencing and face to face with internal stake holders, suppliers, and customers.
• A positive approach and mentality to product data harvesting, document population, maintenance, and management.

In return our client offers a highly competitive salary and excellent career progression opportunities.

Apply online or for further information contact one of our specialist consultants quoting reference number: NJR15375