Location: Manchester
Type: Permanent
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 Per Annum
PRODUCT TECHOLOGIST ( HOME TEXTILES)
UP TO £30K - doe
MANCHESTER
HYBRID WORKING 2 DAYS A WEEK
The Role
Our client a successful and well established homeware textiles company based in Manchester have an exciting opportunity for a Product Technologist in the Home Furnishings division, they supply to multiple UK High Street retail and online e-commerce sectors. The purpose of the role is to ensure a product moves from its design and development stage into the hands of the retailer or end user. The Product Technologist will work closely with internal stake holders, overseas manufacturers and suppliers in the Far East and the customer/ High street retailer to fully meet or exceed expectations for product compliance, quality, packaging, sustainability, on time delivery and end user performance so experience of critical path is essential for this role.
Reporting to the Account Director and Supply Chain Director and work alongside our other Product technologists and Commercial team members.
Duties and responsibilities
Attend and contribute to pre-prod handover meetings via close liaison with Design, Development and Customer Account stake holders to ensure selected products are suitable and compliant for bulk manufacture, performance, presentation and customer expectation.
Ensure timely completion and issue of detailed product, imagery and outer packaging specifications both to our overseas manufacturers and internal e-commerce stakeholders via a PIM based system and using Illustrator to create packaging templates.
Strong admin and organisational skills required for this aspect of the role.
You will populate, maintain and manage relevant sections of a detailed critical path t o ensure timely customer product launches through analysis and proactive actions including chasing suppliers for fabric, product sampling, also packaging proofs.
Take a hands-on role with the sample sealing process involving checking of strike/bulk fabrics, packaging proofs, test/inspection reports and gold seal samples to ensure compliance to internal and customer requirements.
Communicate appropriate approvals and rejections back to the supplier - over seas
Provide regular updates with internal and external stake holders on sample activity and progress.
Hold suppliers accountable and maintai n KPI’s for performance on sampling, testing and inspection dates including ‘right first time’ sample submission within agreed deadlines.
Deal quickly and effectively with daily email communications to and from suppliers, customers and internal stake holders.
Control, evaluate and approve pre-shipment inspection reports in partnership with our overseas teams via strong communication.
Skills and Experience
Experience in a similar role
Enthusiastic team player, with a proactive approach, good communication skills and a collaborative attitude.
Organised, and capable of prioritising multiple tasks.
Exceptional attention to detail.
Confident to make decisions and take responsibilities, yet unafraid to seek advice.
An inquisitive mindset, with a keen interest in developing themselves, and ambition to grow their insight and knowledge within the industry.
A desire for continuous product excellence, and improvements.
A 360 thinker able to see the bigger picture when problem solving.
A strong communicator with ability to present confidently via email, audio conferencing and face to face with internal stake holders, suppliers and customers.
A positive approach and mentality to product data harvesting, document population, maintenance and management.
Ability to work effectively in a high volume, fast paced environment.
EXPERIENCED REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE
Previous experience in the Home Textiles
Working with overseas suppliers in China/ Far East
Gold Seal / samples
Critical path
Working with High street retailers
Fabric product sampling and packaging
Benefits
8.30am – 5pm Monday to Thursday, 4pm on Friday
Salary commensurate with experience
Pension plan with 3% employer contribution
Death in Service Life Assurance
Employee discounts on all product
Employee Assistance Programme