Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: Sportswear

Job Ref: TGN5517

A fantastic opportunity to join a growing Brand House in the centre of Manchester as a Product Developer / Technologist, working across multi product areas. You will work closely with the design and marketing teams and communicate with overseas factories ensuring all work is approved and production runs efficiently and on time.

Responsibilities:

• Review of proto/design samples to ensure that they conform to size and design specifications.
• Develop fits and blocks for new ranges.
• Organise and attend all fit meetings, measuring and preparing samples beforehand.
• Prepare workbooks and other comments and ensure that all information is effectively communicated to offshore production teams within agreed critical path timescales.
• Manage all aspects of the sealing process critical path.
• Work closely with offshore production teams and factories to ensure they understand and achieve the technical standards required.
• Prepare testing requirements schedules and manage testing report critical path.
• Manage test reports, quality checks, care labels and supplier manuals.
• Request AQL reports from your suppliers and manage the production seal process.
• Resolve quality assurance issues through effective communication with customers and offshore Production teams.
• Logging received parcels from overseas factories and organising any parcels to be sent out.

Skills:

• Previous experience as a technologist across sweat/jersey and denim preferred.

• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to meet deadlines, along with a good eye for detail.
• Highly organised with confident communication and administration skills and ability to manage critical path deadlines.
• A team player who enjoys working under own initiative as well as part of a team.