Hands-On Woven Shirt Product Developer

Just Brands - Fashion & Retail; Lijnden; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

End-of-year bonus

Staff discount

Gym access

Daily lunch

Job summary

Just Brands is seeking a hands-on Product Developer for woven shirts to own end-to-end development from fabric sourcing through SMS handover. You will balance creative innovation with commercial viability, manage supplier relationships, costing and margins, and drive on-time delivery across design, logistics and buying teams.

With 3+ years in fashion product development (woven shirts preferred), fluency in English and willingness to travel internationally, you will help deliver high-quality,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Fashion, Product Development, Business, or similar.
• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in fashion product development and/or buying, preferably within woven shirts.
• Strong technical understanding of woven fabrics, garment construction, trims and ability to manage multiple seasonal deadlines.
• Awareness of fashion trends and good taste level.
• Commercial awareness around costing and margins; price negotiations for margin impact.
• Willingness to travel internationally for supplier visits and trade shows.
• Fluency in English required; Dutch advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Source and develop fabrics and garments for men’s shirt collections, aligned with range plan, quality, margin and sustainability.
• Balance creativity, product selection and profitability while actively managing costs to achieve target margins.
• Identify and manage product, supplier and delivery risks using data and forecasting to support SMS allocation decisions.
• Manage the product lifecycle from concept to salesman sample, monitoring the critical path and resolving bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Design, Logistics, Buying and suppliers to ensure timely delivery of the correct product, quantity and quality.
• Attend proto meetings with Merchandising, Design and Sales to discuss collection details (fabric information, prices, MOQs, margins, risks).
• Build and maintain international supplier relationships, negotiating pricing, quality and delivery of SMS.
• Be responsible for fit and quality of SMS and hand over of production-ready garments to the Buying team.
• Drive innovation by monitoring market trends, technologies, materials and production developments.
• Ensure sustainable sourcing, effective stakeholder communication and accurate product data across systems including Delogue and Navision.

Skills

Technical product knowledge

Supplier management

Costing

Margins

Quality

Fit

Critical path management

Cross-functional collaboration

Forecasting

Market awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Fashion/Product Development/Business

Tools

Delogue

Navision

Job description

Just Brands is seeking a hands-on Product Developer for woven shirts to own end-to-end development from fabric sourcing through SMS handover. You will balance creative innovation with commercial viability, manage supplier relationships, costing and margins, and drive on-time delivery across design, logistics and buying teams.

With 3+ years in fashion product development (woven shirts preferred), fluency in English and willingness to travel internationally, you will help deliver high-quality,