The Company

Our client is a high end manufacturing business that supplies retailers with their quality products.  The business is people orientated, respects staff and promotes values aligned to the business ethos

Overview:

To aid defining the range strategy to ensure we strengthen the value proposition.

To manage the whole product development lifecycle from brief to successful launch.

Range planning process including upkeep with range amendments, deletions and product introductions.

Running the weekly NPD meeting to progress report range development and critical path decision making.

Critical path timeline management to success launch.

Successful on time development of new products, accessories and point-of-sale materials and displays.

Present new product ideas for assessment along with feasibility costings.

Direct briefing and liaison with 3rd parties.

Ensuring all new products meet quality, technical, and production requirements.

Drafting and signing off specifications in line with the new products being developed.

Working with the Purchasing team to firm up costings and liaison with factories.

Brainstorming new ideas to meet customer requirements.

Studying customer requirements to develop new ideas.

Competitive set and benchmarking analysis with presentations to the internal team with proposals.

Sampling requirements with factories to meet concepts briefed.

Undertake trials and assist customers in achieving successful technical performance.

Ensuring all products are fully compliant 

Signing off samples requirements and handing over to the Quality team to ensure compliance to specifications.

Manage sample requirement to meet photography, development sign off, internal launch and play a hand in first-off gold seal sign off.

Work with the Quality Manger and undertake risk analysis with FMEA and other such tools.

As the product owner, determining which product features should be highlighted, ensuring that product features in scope are ready for development and carrying out acceptance tests on developed features.

Key Skills

Creative thinking skills

Project management skills

Facilitation skills

Research skills.

Product knowledge.

Great communicator for all levels, across cultures and can sell the product vision and benefits.

Negotiations, influencing and persuasion skills.

Commercial skills (costing and numerate).