Junior Streetwear Product Developer – Fast-Paced Fashion

Footasylum; Rochdale; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Footasylum, in partnership with Trapstar, seeks a Junior Product Developer to support end-to-end development of seasonal collections across North Manchester and London offices. You will collaborate with product developers, designers and the product manager to deliver on departmental and business objectives.

The ideal candidate is proactive, highly organized, and commercially aware with strong attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ Product development experience in a fast-moving brand/retail environment
• Experience of working with Suppliers both Uk and Global
• Excellent organisational & communication skills
• Passion for Streetwear and Lifestyle products
• Collaborative team player, with ability to react quickly to changing demands and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Successfully support the wider development team in the end-to-end development process of your brands, making sure best in class multi-category product is achieved according to the required critical path timelines
• Supporting and attending fitting/sealing meeting across both Head office and London office
• Support in the process of meeting deadlines, checking of submissions sent from the factories including lab dips, bulk fabric and print submissions within specified timeframes.
• Support the team to ensure the manufacture of own brand products are to the highest standard. Join fit meetings, and feedback on samples/fabrics/labdips approvals /safety standards /testing/QC.
• Ability to understand technical issues and sending clear, concise and accurate comments to suppliers; processing samples in a timely manner.
• Build strong internal relationships (eg Design, Supply chain, Sourcing, etc).
• Assist in the approvals of bulk QC checks from Ekol and warehouse in timely manner whilst leading general QC function.
• Responsible for creating AQL inspection sheets and measurement sheets for QC inspections Also responsible for reviewing master AQL sheets for factories.
• Responsible for ensuring all photo samples and SMS are arranged when needed and Tracked/logged correctly.
• Mentor and support assistant members of the Product Development team ensuring a culture of continuous improvement and development through clear direction and feedback and encouraging collaborative ways of working

Job description

Footasylum, in partnership with Trapstar, seeks a Junior Product Developer to support end-to-end development of seasonal collections across North Manchester and London offices. You will collaborate with product developers, designers and the product manager to deliver on departmental and business objectives.

The ideal candidate is proactive, highly organized, and commercially aware with strong attention to detail.