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- Drives the development and delivery of new product ranges to customers within agreed product/packaging specification and critical path timelines.
- Collaborates closely with mills to ensure customer product and packaging, design, cost, technical quality, safety and compliance standards are met.
Client Details
A great opportunity for an Product Development Manager - Home Textiles to join a market leading textile business in the Cheshire area. They design and produce textiles for the Bedroom, living room etc. They have a great reputation in the industry with a number of long service employees.
Description
- Collaborates with Design to drive a targeted customer approach to product development
- Develop commercially viable fabrics & products in line with customer briefs & the business plans
- Builds and presents customer product development presentations (PowerPoint/showroom)
- Lead/support the management team on mill product development and factory audit visits
- Obtains cost prices from mills, calculates costing and shares prices with customers, renegotiating with mills as required. Maintains approved costing files.
- Ensures all customer development samples are delivered to customer on time and to agreed specification
- Liaises with mills to ensure compliance, certification & production& packaging safety standards are adhered to
- Responsible for all testing/certification to ensure product/packaging quality meets required customer standards
- Responsible for on time receipt & delivery to customer of production samples, packaging wet proofs & shipping images
- Ensure all approvals are correct to agreed specification
- Lead investigations into non-conformance, including detailed investigation and provide resolutions
- Liaise with customer regarding customer complaints. Advise on appropriate course of action
Profile
- Product Development, Buying experience across textiles, homeware
- Motivate, mentor, coach and support wider Product Development team members (if applicable)
- Share product knowledge with others and foster a culture of continuous learning
- Celebrate success and drive positively
Job Offer
Competitive Salary
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Product Development Manager
Product Development Manager
Product Development Manager
