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Drives the development and delivery of new product ranges to customers within agreed product/packaging specification and critical path timelines.
Collaborates closely with mills to ensure customer product and packaging, design, cost, technical quality, safety and compliance standards are met.Client Details

A great opportunity for an Product Development Manager - Home Textiles to join a market leading textile business in the Cheshire area. They design and produce textiles for the Bedroom, living room etc. They have a great reputation in the industry with a number of long service employees.

Description

Collaborates with Design to drive a targeted customer approach to product development
Develop commercially viable fabrics & products in line with customer briefs & the business plans
Builds and presents customer product development presentations (PowerPoint/showroom)
Lead/support the management team on mill product development and factory audit visits
Obtains cost prices from mills, calculates costing and shares prices with customers, renegotiating with mills as required. Maintains approved costing files.
Ensures all customer development samples are delivered to customer on time and to agreed specification
Liaises with mills to ensure compliance, certification & production& packaging safety standards are adhered to
Responsible for all testing/certification to ensure product/packaging quality meets required customer standards
Responsible for on time receipt & delivery to customer of production samples, packaging wet proofs & shipping images
Ensure all approvals are correct to agreed specification
Lead investigations into non-conformance, including detailed investigation and provide resolutions
Liaise with customer regarding customer complaints. Advise on appropriate course of actionProfile

Product Development, Buying experience across textiles, homeware
Motivate, mentor, coach and support wider Product Development team members (if applicable)
Share product knowledge with others and foster a culture of continuous learning
Celebrate success and drive positivelyJob Offer

Competitive Salary

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Product Development Manager

Product Development Manager

Product Development Manager