Product Development Assistant

Purpose of the role

The Product Development Assistant, RTW supports the team in delivering the end to end product development process across ready-to-wear categories. Responsibilities

Assist the team in all daily collection development tasks

Centralize supply needs and prepare shipments to factories, maintaining accurate tracking

Prepare and send packages throughout the collection development process

Prepare fittings and normalisation meetings in support of the developer

Support the team in setting up meetings, ensuring materials are organized, tidy, and easy foreveryone to understand

Support detail review meetings and the preparation of production Bom’sOrganize, file, and archive garments and vendor swatches

Input and update product information into Air

Table, ensuring accuracy is maintained throughout the collection

Liaise with vendors regarding shipments, tracking and monitoring deliveries to ensure timelyarrival

Support the Product Development team with technical feasibility of products, brainstormingideas and solutions to ensure the design vision is translated into product

Sample /stock managementPO management- prototypes, samples, excess stock, organising and recording all invoices

Tracking and reporting on budget for product development, prototypes and samples

Updating boards and collection books

Provide administrative support to the Product Development team as required

Qualifications, Skills, Experience Required1-2 years Product Development experience required

Strong attention to detail

Experience with large volumes of data entry, ensuring complete detail and accuracy even when working at speed

Commercial awareness of product cost and tracking against budgets

Good communication skills, able to effectively share information with the team in a clear, concise way

Knowledge and passion for fashion and products – ‘fashion sensibility’ - knowledge of trends, the market, the luxury consumer and peer awareness

Proactive, adaptable, and solution-oriented, with the ability to manage multipl