Assistant Product Developer to Head of Bridal & Bespoke

Emilia Wickstead; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury fashion brand in London is seeking an Assistant Product Developer to support bridal product development. The role involves managing bridal orders, coordinating with factories, and ensuring quality control. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of experience in women's luxury fashion and proficiency in Zedonk and Excel. You will work closely with the Bridal Manager and need excellent communication skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple tasks accurately and speedily.
• Confident communicating at all levels.
• Self-starter able to delegate when appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Assist Bridal Manager with weekly challenges.
• Process bridal orders and communicate with store consultants.
• Oversee fabric testing and ensure quality standards.

Skills

5 years+ experience in women’s luxury fashion

Product Development experience in Bridal

Zedonk knowledge

Strong Excel skills

Fantastic communicator

Team player with great interpersonal skills

Tools

Zedonk

Excel

Job description

Assistant Product Developer to Head of Bridal & Bespoke

General

• Weekly one to one catch up with Bridal Manager to review the week’s challenges.
• Processing bridal orders from the store: always acknowledge receipt to store consultant.
• Coordinating bridal styles with factories in London.
• Ordering all fabrics, trimmings, and materials in house, check internal stock first.
• Source suitable trims for construction and finishings for bridal gowns and accessories in line with margins and critical path.
• Creating order forms for each order that is processed to add to the visual ‘wall’ overview.
• Manage the bridal fabric stock list – updating any changes to LIVE spreadsheet.
• Helping with fabric stock movement Atelier – Storage – Sell.
• Staying on top of trim cupboard organisation, keeping tidy, updating storage area.

Technical

• Maintain accurate techpacks, understand, oversee & assemble these tech packs for all bridal clients’ orders.
• Source & order all necessary components for private clients (trims, binding, fusing etc).
• Provide pattern makers and pattern cutters with a clear technical directive for each project.
• Pull patterns when required to support bridal pattern maker.
• Understand the different types of fusing and how they work with different fabrics & garments.
• Support quality control of garments from our external manufacturers.
• ZEDONK – enter ALL orders into zedonk for all clients/fabric, so accounts can view each client and see the margin achieved from final completion to original approved quote.
• Overseeing fabric testing, sewing tests and mock-ups for bridal, regarding finishing’s and fusings.
• Visiting factories to ensure EW quality and performance standards are met.
• Work with our in-house bridal machinist team.
• Manage the production of all outsourced bridal samples, liaising with the factories, preparing sample packs and ensuring the samples are delivered, on time and on target.
• Reporting in & supporting Bridal Manager & Head of Atelier as required with Fashion Weeks & special projects.
• Communicate with overseas and domestic factories to manage sampling, revisions, and pre-production approvals.

Store

• Organisation of deliveries to and from store for bridal dresses.
• Deliveries of fabric swatches/colour cards for clients.

Financial

• Keeping records of all invoices and inputting information into Zedonk per bridal client.
• Regularly liaising with finance department to have full transparency with studio orders.

Person Specification

• 5 year’s+ experience in women’s luxury fashion.
• Product Development experience in Bridal, but not limited to Bridal.
• Zedonk knowledge essential.
• Strong excel skills.
• Multi-tasker able to work at speed but with accuracy and within deadlines.
• Presumably – multi-tasked, team player, shows initiative, super organised, able to meet deadlines, able to work at speed whilst being accurate and able to meet deadlines.
• Fantastic communicator – confident and comfortable communicating with people at all levels internally and externally.
• A self-starter, able to delegate where appropriate.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, building strong relationships with other departments.
• A team player with great interpersonal skills, willing to help others within your team and external departments if required.
• We would like you to be flexible at peak times to manage workload and to support the Atelier Director on collections, capsule collections overflow at company peak times if necessary and any further business demands that may arise.
• Please confirm that you have the right to work in the UK without restriction and specify your salary expectations.
• If you do not hear back within 2 weeks, we regret that you have not been shortlisted.