Product Development Assistant

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