Product Technologist - Home Textiles

Job Description

This role will report into our Product & Quality Manager and work alongside our other Product Technologists and Commercial team members.Client DetailsAn exciting opportunity for a Product Technologist in the Home Furnishings industry, supplying UK High Street retail and e-commerce sectors. Your job is to ensure a product moves from its design and development stage into the hands of the retailer or enduser. You will work closely with internal stake holders, overseas manufacturers and the customer to fully meet or exceed expectations for product compliance, quality, packaging, sustainability, on time delivery and end user performance.Description

• 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.
• Lead weekly PDS meetings
• 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. Strongadmin and organisational skills required for this aspect of the role.
• You will populate, maintain and manage relevant sections of a detailed critical path to ensure timely customer product launches through analysis and proactive actions including chasing suppliers for fabric, product sampling, also packaging proofs.
• Lead weekly critical path meetings
• 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 approvalsand rejections back to the supplier.
• Provide regular updates with internal and external stake holders on sample activity and progress.
• Hold suppliers accountable and maintain KPIs 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.

Profile

• 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.

Job OfferFree ParkingHybrid workingSalary commensurate with experienceDeath in Service Life AssuranceEmployee discounts on all productEmployee Assistance ProgrammeProduct Technologist - Home TextilesProduct Technologist - Home TextilesProduct Technologist - Home TextilesRequired skills

• Testing
• Textiles
• Standards
• Home Textiles
• seals
• Product Technologist
• Factories
• technical files
• Assistant Technologist