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Product Development Assistant

Employer
Manolo Blahnik
Location
London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
Closing date
15 Aug 2022

Job Details

Department: Product Development

Reports to: Men’s Senior Product Developer

 

Our Values:

  • Every day the energy, creativity and passion of Manolo permeates through our business.
  • We believe in the artist and the artisan; we are innovative while still protecting our heritage.
  • We strive for timeless beauty and quality craftmanship.
  • We celebrate curiosity and believe in working proactively and being solution focused.
  • We believe in upholding family values; we treat everyone with honesty, respect and kindness while nurturing our teams to deliver excellence.
  • We believe in making people smile.

 

Purpose:

To give support to the Men’s Senior Product Developer in delivering the end to end development process with regards to Men’s collection, Special Projects, VIP & Special Orders, Designer Collaborations. Upload and maintain all data related to the products from Collection Line Building to Market opening in a timely manner. The nature of this role also requires some physical strength.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Create and manage labels for samples
  • Maintain up-to-date sample tracker
  • Liaising with vendors on shipments, tracking and monitoring deliveries to ensure they arrive on time
  • Log and photograph samples
  • Upload sample images in PLM system
  • Liaise with external Graphic Designer to instruct retouching of images for market
  • Upload retouched images into the PLM system
  • Review PLM to ensure product meets BOM and visual expectations
  • Responsible for shipments of prototypes and samples to and from the Italian suppliers and US office
  • Support with product and material information (material and product compositions, HS codes, material tech sheets upload)
  • Responsible for PLM management including style set-up for all styles by creating and maintaining BOM’s, updating style information and changes as necessary, all sample comments, and approvals
  • Sample management, including lending samples externally and internally but also re-labelling end of season and fit samples and shipping them to warehouse
  • Administrative support to the Men’s Senior Product Developer including supporting with prepping for meetings, shipping & ad hoc seasonal activities
  • Responsible for creating master seasonal and classic colour cards
  • Organising, filing, and archiving samples, swatches and raw materials
  • Inputting data and updating PLM, ensuring accuracy is maintained throughout the collection building
  • Ensure that departmental data is accurate and kept up to date in the system database
  • Create product/colour records and relevant BOMs in the PLM system
  • Coordinate with Men’s Senior Product Developer and Merchandising team to ensure that all production requirements such as colours materials and styles are met
  • Carryover classic styles in PLM system
  • Liaise with all parties involved in the process to ensure timings are respected
  • Check all technical specs with Men’s Senior Product Developer to ensure that they are correct and approved for production
  • Liaise with suppliers and request material and accessory technical sheets, composition, prices, MOQ
  • Insert all material and accessory information in PLM system
  • Create material orders and log them in material tracker
  • Keep material tracker up to date
  • Give support to the Men’s Senior Product Developer with regards to the Special Projects / VIP – Special Orders / Designer Collaborations

Any other tasks as requested.

 

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Italian language skills is required
  • Must have a sense of urgency
  • Ability to positively collaborate with all teams and supervisors
  • Possess the ability to multi-task and react to change
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Good communication skills, able to effectively share information with the team in a clear, concise way
  • Strong organisational skills
  • Ability to prioritise tasks, and ensure delivery of results within tight deadlines
  • Experience with large volumes of data entry, ensuring complete detail and accuracy even when working at speed
  • Must have a strong work ethic and motivation to learn
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel. PLM skills would be useful
  • 1-2 year experience in Product Development
  • Highly proficient in MS Office and PLM
  • Excellence: High level of finesse and excellence required in delivery of all tasks

Company

About Us

Manolo Blahnik was established in 1970 in Chelsea, London. We are an independent, family run, British brand with global recognition, you will find our headquarters in Central London with partners around the world.

Manolo’s passion and creativity is our driving force.  Over the decades we have become known for our dynamism, independence of spirit , creativity and quality as well as timeless styles which loyal customers come back to again and again.

Our ethos is to optimise and not maximise, making decisions that feel right.

 

 

 

The Values

Every day the energy, creativity and passion of Manolo permeates through our business.

We believe in the artist and the artisan; we are innovative while still protecting the heritage of the house.

We believe in working proactively and being solution focussed.

We believe in upholding family values; we treat everyone with honesty and respect while nurturing our teams to deliver excellence.

We believe in making people smile.

Company info
Location
London
GB

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