Junior Product Developer

Footasylum; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Footasylum is seeking a Junior Product Developer for its in-house Design Centre, working on our own-brand ranges across men’s, women’s, juniors and accessories. The role involves collaborating with Design, Buying and Merchandising teams and visiting the warehouse to conduct QC checks.

The ideal candidate has 1–2 years of experience in the high-street fashion industry, strong organization, and a proactive mindset to meet tight deadlines and submission requirements.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience in the Highstreet fashion industry across mens, ladies, juniors and accessories.
• Office-based role with travel to the warehouse for QC checks.
• Excellent organisation skills for handling samples, archiving and submission files.

Responsibilities

• Work to a critical path to keep development and ex‑factory dates on track.
• Liaise with factories to chase lab dips, strike offs and samples with senior team members.
• Assist under product developer guidance while ensuring safety standards and testing compliance.
• Visit the warehouse regularly to undertake QC checks.
• Measure and send comments on own-brand samples across categories.
• QC bulk production and maintain QC logs with relevant teams.
• Create AQL inspection sheets and update master AQL sheets for factories.
• Arrange photo samples and SMS, and dispatch parcels to factories.

Skills

Self-motivation

Time management

Initiative

Team player

Job description

Description

We are looking for an ambitious, highly motivated and passionate Junior Product Developer to join our in-house “Own Brand” Design Centre team at Footasylum. We are home to multiple brands across men’s, women’s, kid’s and accessories.

This Role gives great opportunity to the right candidate to work on Footasylum’s “own brands” such as Zavetti Canada, KWD, Alessandro Zavetti and many more.

The Team

We are a rapidly growing team of diverse talented individuals with a passion for all things fashion. Our aim is to help create an environment where you can achieve, progress and develop. You will be supported in your journey, and we will celebrate your progression with you.

The Product Development Team functions as a part of the larger Design Centre and we work extremely closely with Apparel Design, Buying and Merchandising.

About You

The successful candidate should have a minimum of 1-2 years previous experience within the Highstreet Fashion Industry working across Mens, Ladies, Juniors and accessories. This role is office based but you will be required to travel to our warehouse to undertake QC checks.

You must have excellent organisation skills to aid with general day to day responsibilities such as including organising samples, archiving old samples & creating/removing submission files.

• You should be self‑motivated and have good time management with the ability to adapt and work to tight deadlines and delivers results within specified time frames


• A pro‑active approach and being able to show initiative are essential.


• A positive attitude to aid great working relationships with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Working to a critical path to ensure that the development process is smooth and that the ex‑factory dates are maintained.


• Liaising with factories to chase in lab dips, strike offs, samples etc. and checking submissions alongside senior members of the team.


• Assist and learning with product developer’s guidance and ensuring that the products follow all safety standards and meet minimum requirements on testing. Understand grade rules across all categories.


• Visit the warehouse regularly to undertake QC checks.


• Assist with measuring & sending comments on own brand samples across men’s, women’s, juniors and accessories.


• QC bulk production and feedback to factories, responsible for keeping QC log up to date by liaising with all relevant teams.


• Responsible for creating AQL inspection sheets and measurement sheets for 3rd party inspections (EKOL) and updating master AQL sheets for factories.


• Responsible for ensuring all photo samples and SMS are arranged when needed and logged correctly.


• Send parcels with trims/ submissions/samples to factories for the team.

Why Footasylum?

We are one of the leading omni‑channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills.

Our aim to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about designing happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.