Product Developer

Product Developer | North West | Performance | Apparel | Circa £35,000 + Benefits

Why?

This is a rare chance to join a team where you can truly own your categories, make bold decisions, and help shape the future of a performance-led brand making serious waves in the industry. If you're ready to lead with confidence, roll your sleeves up, and take full control of your product - this is your moment.

Here - product is everything - and we're looking for a Product Developer who's ready to treat their categories like a brand within a brand. This is a role for someone who thrives on ownership, runs with responsibility, and takes pride in delivering market-leading product - every season, every drop.

You'll be the key link between design, suppliers, and product leadership - owning development from first tech pack to final production. This isn't a support role; it's yours to lead. If you love solving problems, making decisions, and taking full accountability for timelines, quality, and margin - we want you on our team.

Your Categories, Your Call - What You'll Own:

• Take full accountability for product development across your categories - from concept through to production, with complete visibility across timelines, costs, and quality

• Work directly with directors, designers, and product managers, bringing ideas to life while driving constant improvement across fit, finish, and function

• Own the critical path - ensuring tech packs are issued accurately and on time, with comprehensive construction, fit, and trim comments every step of the way

• Lead fit sessions with design and product, driving timely, commercial decisions and communicating clear, actionable feedback to suppliers

• Own sample management - inspecting and signing off styles from proto to PPS, with full confidence in your decisions

• Guard consistency across the range - ensuring size charts, fit blocks and grading follow this brands standards

• Take full control of lab dips, strike-offs and trim approvals - making swift, informed calls to keep things moving

• Be the go-to contact for your suppliers - maintaining clear, professional communication through weekly check-ins, calls and relationship-building visits

• Engineer for margin - collaborating with sourcing on open-costing and smart fabric usage, without ever compromising quality

• Track product compliance across all relevant testing, care labelling and legislative standards - accuracy is everything

• Be proactive in identifying delays or risks, flagging them early in weekly development meetings and driving solutions

• Drive improvements with confidence - whether you're optimising a block, renegotiating a detail, or finding new efficiencies with the factory

• Mentor and support junior members of the team - you lead by example, and others learn from how you operate

What You'll Bring:

• A natural sense of ownership - you take accountability, seek solutions, and keep things moving

• Exceptional attention to detail - in fit, construction, costing and communication

• Strong technical knowledge of apparel, fabrics, trims, and manufacturing

• Confidence in working autonomously while still collaborating cross-functionally

• A commercial mindset - you understand the impact of every product decision

• A positive, can-do approach and strong organisational skills - nothing gets past you

• Experience working directly with suppliers and factories (UK & offshore)

• A sharp eye for quality and performance - especially within sportswear or technical apparel (bonus!)

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