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Product Development Manager
Michael Page (UK)
England
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GBP 80,000 - 100,000
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity awaits a Product Development Manager in the home textiles sector at a market-leading company. This role focuses on driving product development, collaborating with design teams, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. The successful candidate will manage customer relationships, oversee product testing, and lead a dynamic team. Join a company known for its innovation and commitment to quality, where your contributions will directly impact the success of their textile offerings. If you're passionate about textiles and ready to make a difference, this is the perfect role for you.
Benefits
Free Parking
Close to transport links
Progression Opportunities
Qualifications
- Experience in product development and buying within textiles and homeware.
- Ability to motivate and mentor team members.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Design for targeted product development.
- Ensure compliance with safety standards and timely delivery of samples.
Skills
Product Development
Buying experience
Mentoring
Customer Liaison
Tools
PowerPoint
Job description
- Free Parking; Close to transport links
- Progression Opportunities
About Our Client
A great opportunity for a 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-serving employees.
Job 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 customers on time and to agreed specifications
- 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 customers of production samples, packaging wet proofs & shipping images
- Ensure all approvals are correct to agreed specifications
- Lead investigations into non-conformance, including detailed investigations and provide resolutions
- Liaise with customers regarding customer complaints. Advise on appropriate courses of action
The Successful Applicant
- 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 positivity
What's on Offer
Competitive Salary
Close to transport links
Free Parking
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