Assistant Product Developer

Overview

Footasylum is looking for an ambitious, highly motivated and passionate Assistant Product Developer to join Footasylum's in-house “Own Brand” Design Centre team at Footasylum. Footasylum is home to multiple brands across men’s, women’s, kid’s and accessories.

This Role gives great opportunity to the right candidate to work on Footasylum’s “own brands” such as Zavetti Canada, KWD, Alessandro Zavetti and many more.

The Product Development Team functions as a part of the larger Design Centre and Footasylum work extremely closely with Apparel Design, Buying and Merchandising.

The successful candidate will ideally have some previous experience within the Fashion Industry working across Mens, Ladies, Juniors and accessories.

You must have excellent organisation skills to aid with general day to day responsibilities such as including organising samples, archiving old samples & creating/removing submission files.

• You should be self-motivated and have good time management with the ability to adapt and work to tight deadlines and delivers results within specified time frames.
• A pro-active approach and being able to show initiative are essential.
• A positive attitude to aid great working relationships with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Working to a critical path to ensure that the development process is smooth and that the ex-factory dates are maintained.
• Liaising with factories to chase in lab dips, strike offs, samples etc. and checking submissions alongside senior members of the team.
• Assist and learning with product developer’s guidance and ensuring that the products follow all safety standards and meet minimum requirements on testing. Understand grade rules across all categories.
• Assist with measuring & sending comments on own brand samples across men’s, women’s, juniors and accessories.
• QC bulk production and feedback to factories, responsible for keeping QC log up to date by liaising with all relevant teams.
• Responsible for creating AQL inspection sheets and measurement sheets for 3rd party inspections (EKOL) and updating master AQL sheets for factories.
• Responsible for ensuring all photo samples and SMS are arranged when needed and logged correctly.
• Send parcels with trims/ submissions/samples to factories for the team.

Footasylum is one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that Footasylum is a brilliant place to work. Footasylum value you and your development. Footasylum have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills.

Footasylum's aim to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Footasylum recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure Footasylum have lots of different perspectives when Footasylum is building products and services. This is great news for Footasylum's business.

Footasylum review applications on an individual basis, and if Footasylum feel you would be a good fit Footasylum’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if Footasylum’re a good fit for you.