Head of Product Development & Factory Operations

Bambaw Group; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership role

Office in Brussels

Competitive salary and bonus

Job summary

Bambaw Group is seeking a leader to drive product development for its brands, spanning hard goods, home textiles and formulations. You will guide a team of 3–4 developers, manage multiple development projects through stage gates, and ensure quality and timely handover for Brand Managers to launch.

The role requires 5–7 years in consumer products, proven leadership, and strong factory knowledge. Based in Brussels or willing to relocate, you will collaborate with procurement and legal partners,

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years developing physical consumer products, with several products taken from brief to market.
• You have managed a direct team, and you have led people more expert than you in their field.
• You know factories: sample rounds, MOQs, tooling, lead times.
• You have run parallel projects and can name the dates you committed to, and what you did when one slipped.
• Structured, pragmatic and numerate: you build a landed cost and margin case and make decisions on it.
• Fluent in English, based in Brussels or ready to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a team of 3 to 4 product developers: specialists who know more about materials and manufacturing than you do
• Run 6 to 9 development projects at once through our stage gate process, and own the business case and the go or no go at the development gates
• Keep the pipeline of future products rated and prioritised with our commercial team, so the next project is always ready
• Own quality across the catalogue: returns, improvements, version changes, and the shared quality standard your team applies
• Coordinate factories on samples and timelines with our procurement and legal partners, including 1 to 3 trips to Asia per year
• Handover every product developed, compliant and set up in our systems, ready for the Brand Managers to launch

Skills

People management

Product development

Factory coordination

Project management

Costing & margins

English fluency

Job description

Bambaw Group is seeking a leader to drive product development for its brands, spanning hard goods, home textiles and formulations. You will guide a team of 3–4 developers, manage multiple development projects through stage gates, and ensure quality and timely handover for Brand Managers to launch.

The role requires 5–7 years in consumer products, proven leadership, and strong factory knowledge. Based in Brussels or willing to relocate, you will collaborate with procurement and legal partners,