HEAD OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | NORTH WEST | PERFORMANCE BRAND | £75,000 - £90,000 + BENEFITS |If you love apparel, more importantly performance sports & athleisure product, then this is a role where you can embrace innovative thinking whilst pushing the boundaries!Arguably, these guys are one now becoming one of the biggest retailers in their field, making market leaders watch their backs. They're now on the lookout for making certain departments bigger so that they can go after, and deliver their ambitious growth plans. AS THE HEAD OF PRODUCT, YOU WILL:
1. Manage all ranges with merchandising, product developers and designers
2. Work collaboratively with your product developers, designers and garment techs to ensure quality is at all times the best it can be and in line with company standards & expectation
3. Be responsible & accountable for all ways of working across the product development function: costing and negotiating exercises, margin targets, clear pricing architectures, range building, lessons learnt, trading actions on a weekly basis, new product development, sourcing innovative fabrics and trims.
4. You will want to know how each product line fits into the overall category mix across the full product offer so will be actively involved at the start of each season or each collection that is being developed
5. Ability to maximise best-selling, historic lines vs implementing exciting GTM strategies around...