Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: Homeware

Job Ref: TGN5115

The Company:

An exciting opportunity for a Homewares Product Developer to join a fast-moving team for a leading home textile company. This is a great opportunity for someone with a PD, Design or Buying background who is passionate about everything Homewares.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office a week
• 23 days holiday – rising to 25 over 2 years.
• Free car parking
• Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm

Responsibilities

• Building relationships with existing and new factories
• Liaising with customers and brainstorming products
• Analysing existing sales and looking for new trends
• Researching new product techniques and products
• Sourcing new qualities plains/semi-plains/jacquards/print bases
• Understanding the commercial market and conducting market analysis
• Feeding back strategies to the factory (seasonal, promo)
• Working with factories & design on new product ideas
• Setting up factory calls and tours
• Benchmarking
• Collating all cost information (prices, MOQ’s, lead-times)
• Working with factories and Category Assistant on product development
• Cross costing
• Helping/supporting with factory issues

 Key Skills

• Advanced excel skills required
• Ability to communicate with Customers and Suppliers on Teams calls and face to face meetings.
• Ability and the confidence to produce and present Power points internally and externally.
• Attention to detail is critical as dealing with large amounts of data.
• Understand the specification of the product in more detail to give you greater understanding on developing right products for the customer.
• Able to work on own initiative.
• Enjoys working as part of a wider team and likes to get stuck in.