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 for
- everyone to understand
- Support detail review meetings and the preparation of production Bom’s
- Organize, file, and archive garments and vendor swatches
- Input and update product information into AirTable, ensuring accuracy is maintained throughout the collection
- Liaise with vendors regarding shipments, tracking and monitoring deliveries to ensure timely
- arrival
- Support the Product Development team with technical feasibility of products, brainstorming
- ideas and solutions to ensure the design vision is translated into product
- Sample /stock management
- PO 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 Required
- 1-2 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 multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Fluent in English; additional languages are considered a plus
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Technical knowledge of RTW construction, leather, materials, and product performance is an advantage
- Computer skills: Microsoft Excel and experience with Airtable (or similar product data management/project tracking platforms) is highly desirable