Junior Produktentwickler

- I need you to compose market scoping and competitive shop reports to identify new opportunities for our key customers. - You will support range building and sales performance reviews, identifying opportunities and offering design-led solutions. - Building strong relationships with key customers to support their design and development requirements across categories will be part of your role. - With support from the Design Manager, you will prepare and present commercial product opportunities in customer meetings. - I expect you to collaborate with the Design Manager and Account Manager to develop new products and ranges that are engineered to cost. - You will build strong relationships with factories and create clear, commercial design briefs to achieve “right first time” samples. - Developing a basic knowledge of cost prices and minimum order quantities (MOQs), along with a curiosity to understand the commercial side of development, is important. - You will manage end-to-end product development for selected accounts, taking responsibility from concept through to approved sample while meeting Critical Path deadlines. - Progressing samples and keeping both the wider team and customers updated via Development Trackers will be necessary. - You will also manage and maintain the internal Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. - Ensure development timescales align with key Critical Path dates and drop-dead deadlines. - You are expected to build knowledge of product techniques, substrates, and production methods while developing the ability to engineer products to target cost prices and consider production limitations. - Assisting with the creation of seasonal packaging artworks in line with customer guidelines and factory requirements will also be part of your job.