Product Developer - Footwear & Accessories

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Salary not specified
Posted
Full-time
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Job Description

About the Role The Product Developer brings the BIG W customer offer to life through the design and development value driven, high volume commercial product ranges and products that deliver on our strategy and purpose. What You'll Do - Partner with Australia based design & category management team to input into category strategies. Select and develop products aligned to range option plan briefs & mood board guidance. - Demonstrate a deep understanding of the customer along with the eye for finishes, colours, products and prints that resonate to the Australian market. - Collect & review global retail, supplier trends & visit showrooms to feed recommendations into range planning. - Understand the manufacturing processes to ensure products are viable and cost effective. Provide continuous recommendations (informed by supplier intel) to value engineer our products to meet target costs at the required quality for a large-volume retailer. - Work closely with suppliers to review product translation and ensure design direction is maintained in line with the buying brief at required quality and cost. - Conduct product sample review and suggest action plan for product development enhancement - Adhere to the New Product Development process, you will be developing innovative and on trend products for our customers. - Initiate and communicate product development progress. Work end to end with Sourcing, Commercial, Design and QA to tackle challenges throughout the development and production processes - Establish and maintain Product Range development boards/trackers and adhere to critical path timelines. - Support on all product development, initiating/ensuring they are on track for on-time delivery at agreed quality - Support sourcing trips and factory visits - Participate in range reviews and presentations through virtual communication and product events. - Partner with the Quality and legal team, to ensure any risk is managed during range assortment creation. - Utilise your creative, technical skills and experience to troubleshoot and provide solutions to deliver best outcome for customer, team and brand. What You'll Bring - Formal qualification in Design / Product Design or experience as Product Developer - Minimum 5 years experience in a similar role in a mid-high volume retail business with proven ability to design for a wide range of medium complexity of options. - Experience in Footwear and Accessories categories required - Extremely strong communication and interpersonal skills (written and verbal) in English. Cantonese and Mandarin are highly advantageous. - Experience in Footwear and Accessories categories required - Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the Footwear industry to drive a competitive edge. - High proficiency in Illustrator, Photoshop. - Ability to communicate seamlessly with all stakeholders, through high levels of self-awareness and EQ, whilst being able to manage expectations. - Extensive demonstrated experience designing, reviewing and releasing products for the retail market (Australian market knowledge highly advantageous). - Have the taste and eyes for western market in terms of trends, materials, textures, colours. - Previous experience working with multiple stakeholders across a broad skill base. Behaviors - Customer Focus - customer first mindset, using the customer as the focal point for all decisions. - Commercial Acumen - Strong commercial analytical ability combined with technical knowledge. Ability to drive a commercial approach to cost and quality measures that suit large volume retailers with the ability to interpret results, analyse and plan for the future - People Leadership and Management- can identify and develop talent, create career paths and succession planning. - Stakeholder management - Strong influencing and people skills to positively engage with others KPIS - Sales - Profit - VOC - VOS - VOT What you’ll experience - Be a part of Australia’s largest retailer - Constant mentoring and training provided - Generous performance based bonus - A flexible approach to work Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential. We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

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