Senior Product Development Specialist - Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom - Diversity Jobs Group

Description

At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces.

Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities.

This is the core belief that has guided Burberry since it was founded in 1856 and is central to how we operate as a company today.

We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do.

As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed to being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities.

This position will deliver the end to end product development process in their respective category within Burberry's Product Development function.

Building and maintaining a close working partnership with Design.

Responsible for building and maintaining effective working relationships with vendors, developing a strong working knowledge of vendor capability and availability to meet demands.

This includes negotiating on costs as well as aesthetic changes to ensure design vision is maintained
Identifying, calling out and making recommendations to mitigate any risks/challenges identified at all stages.
Responsible for delivering prototypes and samples on time, to the quality standard, and within cost price range, to achieve target margin

Responsible for ensuring functionality (including consistency and standardisation) and ensuring products that are developed are fit for purpose for the customer, brand and business.

This includes ongoing risk assessment during the development process and proactivity in taking actions as a result
Responsible for collaborating with the Product Engineering teams while developing the collections for product testing to relevant standards, leveraging their technical knowledge and negotiating any aesthetic changes to protect the design vision
Ability to work in partnership with Senior Designers, understanding and interpreting their creative aesthetic and design vision and translating this to teams and vendors
Critical path management ensuring collections are delivered on time, identifying, calling out and making recommendations to mitigate any risks/challenges identified
Able to manage within a budget with commercial awareness and understanding of product cost, achieving a balance between creativity and commercial implications throughout the product development process

Computer skills:
PLM, excel, InDesign