Senior Product Technologist - Manchester, United Kingdom - Q-HQ

Q-HQ

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

2 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Technologist in the Home Furnishings industry.

Your role is to ensure a product moves from its design and development stage into the hands of the retailer or end user.

You will work closely with internal stakeholders, or the Product Technical team, overseeing manufacturers and the customer to fully meet or exceed expectations for product compliance, quality, packaging, sustainability, on-time delivery, and end user performance.

The Role

Attend and contribute to preproduction handover meetings via close liaison with Design, Development, and Customer Account stakeholders to ensure selected products are suitable and compliant for bulk manufacture, performance, presentation, and customer expectation.
Ensure timely completion and issue of detailed product, imagery and packaging specifications to both our oversee manufacturers and internal ecommerce stakeholders via a PIM based system. Strong admin and organisational skills required for this aspect of the role.
As a senior stakeholder, you will populate, maintain and manage key sections of a detailed critical path to ensure timely customer product launches.
Analysis of the critical path will then prompt proactive actions to be taken with chasing suppliers for fabric and product sampling, also packaging proofs in a timely manner to ensure ontime shipment.
Oversee a sample sealing process involving checking of strike/bulk fabrics, packaging proofs, test/inspection reports, and gold seal samples to ensure compliance with internal and customer requirements. Communicate appropriate approvals and rejections back to the supplier.
Provide regular updates with internal and external stakeholders on sample activity and progress.
Hold suppliers accountable and maintain KPI's for performance on sampling, testing, and inspection dates including 'right firsttime' sample submission within agreed deadlines.
Control, evaluate and approve preshipment inspection reports in partnership with our overseas teams via strong communication.
Support the Product and Quality Manager with technical analysis, data harvesting, and compliance reporting for all sustainable and recycled product offerings.

Key Competencies and Experience

Experience in a similar position is essential for this role and a relevant qualification would be a distinct advantage
Enthusiastic team player, with a proactive approach, good communication skills, and a collaborative attitude.
Organised, and capable of prioritizing 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 positive approach and mentality to product data harvesting, document population, maintenance, and management.
Ability to work effectively in a high volume, fast paced environment.

Benefits