Product Developer

Client: - Burberry

Base Location: Horseferry Road in London SW1P 2AW

Job type: - Contract 3 Month

Salary: PAYE - 139 to 184 per day, depending on experience.

Job Purpose
Support the Product Development Manager in managing the product development process for specific knitwear categories. Collaborate closely with the design team to develop each category from initial concept through to finished product, leveraging expertise in knitwear.

Responsibilities

• Implement the seasonal development critical paths, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Coordinate the launch of trials and new designs.
• Work with design to support or manage material sourcing, development, and prototyping for specific product categories.
• Order raw materials for prototypes and samples, ensuring all required information is complete and accurate.
• Organize and schedule prototype fittings, communicating details with Design and Technical Service teams.
• Attend fittings from prototype stage through first pre-production fittings.
• Communicate prototype and sample forecasts to vendors.
• Collaborate with Design and Merchandising to allocate line styles to fabric and showroom samples.
• Manage sample Bills of Materials (BOMs) and sample amendments.
• Monitor sample deliveries to showrooms during season launches.
• Coordinate pre-production fitting schedules with Technical Service and Global Sourcing teams.
• Manage production BOMs and oversee collection handover to Supply Chain.
• Maintain communication with relevant suppliers, following up daily on prototyping and raw material developments, resolving issues as needed.
• Provide information and support to address challenges arising during and after collection development.
• Assist PD Manager, Merchandising, and Global Sourcing in costing raw materials, prototypes, and finished products.
• Monitor the product development budget.
• Set up and update raw materials data.
• Organize and maintain archives of production standards by season and general development documentation.
• Manage multiple projects and collaborate across cross-functional teams, particularly partnering closely with Design.

Personal Profile

• Experience in product development within the luxury fashion industry.
• Proven experience sourcing and developing raw materials.
• Experience working within a global business environment.
• People management experience is advantageous.
• Experience managing product development calendars.
• Proven ability to work closely with manufacturers during development.
• Effective relationship management skills with design and merchandising teams.
• Strong passion for product design and development.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.