Product Assistant

Clarks; Street; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading footwear company in the United Kingdom seeks a Product Assistant to support product line development. The role involves administrative tasks, managing sample orders, and ensuring timelines are met. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, possesses excellent communication skills, and is proficient with data/software systems. Join a renowned brand committed to craftsmanship and career progression.

Benefits

Great training

Career progression

Opportunity to make an impact

Qualifications

• Ability to prioritize, organize, and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Enthusiastic self-starter with a hands-on approach.
• Understanding of cost and margin management.

Responsibilities

• Support product specifications and provide administrative support.
• Manage development sample order process.
• Ensure adherence to timelines and deadlines.

Skills

Highly detail-oriented

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

Team-oriented

Problem-solving skills

Data/software proficiency

Tools

PLM systems

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The role of the Product Assistant is to support the Product function in managing, administering, and monitoring all phases of the BU product line development from concept and system set-up through to RF & CTS sample approval. Plan and work within the BU framework and approach, while remaining fully aligned to the Purpose, Vision, Mission and Values of Clarks as set out by the CEO’s Strategic Objectives

Responsibilities

• Work with Designers and PD on Product specifications, providing administrative support to create, update and issue.
• Provide input on materials, components, trim, etc.
• Design and Development Support
• Product Data Management
• Seasonal system set up and management of data integrity for products during the development cycle.
• Ensure article creation milestones are met in accordance with the corporate development calendar and product information provided on time and accurately.
• Development Sample Management
• Own the development sample order process.
• Provide a single point of contact between factories and business unit, tracking all shoes from initial prototype through to CTS samples and acting as a liaison for change requests.
• General Administration Support
• Provide system and administration support to the PLM, Design and Collection Merchandising functions (BU) as needed.
• Use the corporate calendar to ensure timelines are adhered to and deadlines are met across the BU functions.
• Respond to information requests from other parts of the business on a daily basis.
• Create and manage seasonal product documentation - Range Flow, VLPs, etc.
• Accurate and on-time delivery of VLPs and samples to support GTM Process

Profile

• Highly detail-oriented
• Ability to communicate well in writing and verbally.
• Ability to prioritise, organise and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment in order to meet changing demands and timelines with flexibility and ease.
• Strong team mentality; hands-on and solution-oriented.
• Understands the importance of building to cost and margin management
• Enthusiastic self-starter
• Highly capable user of data / software and PLM systems, Word and Excel, Powerpoint

Why join us?

At Clarks, you’ll be part of a brand with heritage, craftsmanship, and style at its core. We offer great training, career progression, and the chance to make your mark in a global business.

About Clarks

Clarks, based in Somerset, England, has been at the forefront of innovative shoemaking since its foundation in 1825 when brothers James and Cyrus Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off-cuts. At the time, it was ground‑breaking : a combination of invention and craftsmanship that has remained at the heart of what the brand does now. In the Clarks archive, more than 22,000 pairs of shoes have sparked revolutions and defined generations. From the original Clarks Desert Boot, first designed by Nathan Clark and launched in 1950, to the iconic Wallabee, each design has an instantly recognisable signature that makes it unmistakably Clarks.

This document describes the general nature and level of work only. It is not designed to cover an exhaustive list of all skills, activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Other activities, duties, and responsibilities may be added at any time. This description may be changed at the company’s discretion at any time, with or without notice