Product Developer (Maternity Cover)

JD Sports Fashion; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading omnichannel retailer as a Product Developer, where you'll play a crucial role in developing high-quality products. Collaborate with designers and buying teams to enhance product offerings while maintaining compliance with quality standards. This dynamic position focuses on garment engineering and fabric selection to drive margin improvements, ensuring that products meet the brand's expectations. With a commitment to inclusivity and employee growth, this innovative firm offers a supportive environment where your contributions are valued. If you're passionate about fashion and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Staff Discount on Purchases

Discounted Gym Membership

Personal Development Opportunities

Access to Apprenticeships

Qualifications

• Experience in garment engineering and fabric selection is essential.
• Strong understanding of quality compliance and technical packs.

Responsibilities

• Drive margin improvement through garment engineering and fabric selection.
• Manage size specs and ensure product quality meets standards.
• Conduct factory visits to enhance production processes.

Skills

Garment Engineering

Fabric Selection

Technical Packs

Quality Compliance

Critical Path Management

Fit Meetings

Education

Degree in Fashion Design or Related Field

Relevant Experience in Product Development

Tools

Tech Packs Software

Measurement Tools

Job description

The Product Developer is responsible for the development of our own brand product. Working alongside the Senior product developer, Designer and Buying team for their brands, they will support the continuous improvement of product from a technical perspective, ensuring that quality is maintained and compliance legislation is adhered to. Improving retail sales and margin improvement is the key objective of this role.

• Job Title – Product Developer (Maternity Cover)
• Location – JD Group, Hollins Brook Way, Pilsworth, Bury, BL9 8RR.
• Working rota – Monday to Friday
• Working hours – 8:30am to 5:00pm, 40 hours per week.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Drive intake margin improvement through garment engineering and appropriate fabric selection and utilisation to ensure best possible prices without compromising relevant quality level for the Brand.
• Set up size specs / blocks & graded size charts for all product areas.
• Issue all size specs/Tech packs for development & production to factories & suppliers ensuring continuity & consistency.
• Sample product in line with the Sourcing Strategy and provide samples and costings to Buying team.
• Open Cost where needed.
• Working alongside the buying team, maintain the critical path for all orders.
• Have weekly critical path meetings with buying, merchandising, allocators, & supply chain.
• Drive fit meetings with buying & design, ensuring that technical packs / fit comments are sent to suppliers & factories without any delay.
• Inspect, measure and comment on samples (proto samples through to production) Approving each stage of development.
• Manage and approve fabric testing & care label development with the Suppliers.
• Approve lab-dips and strike offs referring issues to the design and buying team.
• Ensure product quality meets the relevant standards.
• Work with the warehouse to review and feedback any issues.
• Provide support for the Senior product developer to ensure that factories follow company supplier guidelines.
• Ensure product compliance in line with all relevant legislation.
• Conduct factory visits/warehouse trips to develop/improve production.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.