• 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

Close to transport link

Free Parking

Early Finish on Friday

Hybrid Working

25 Days Holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays

Product Development Manager

Product Development Manager

Product Development Manager