Product Development Assistant
About Us
Club L London are the next-generation online retailer refining accessible luxury for forward-thinking women worldwide. Delivering timeless and trend-oriented styles in sizes 4-20 for every life moment, we design proudly in-house in the UK; with premium quality, exceptional fit and affordable style at the forefront.
Collaboration, communication and curiosity drive our extraordinary workforce – an ambitious team of diverse, experienced and up-and-coming talents that we think you’d fit right into.
A role at Club L is more than a job, it’s a lifestyle for the innovative, inspired and intuitive thinker.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Updating the critical path and product system with all updates from initial product development to final seal.
- Maintain and take responsibility for the sampling critical path ensuring timely sample submissions, with approvals made from 1st sample to final sealed sample.
- Follow up on all fabric submissions, colours, strike offs and samples within the development time frames and critical launch dates.
- Manage outgoing and incoming packages to and from vendors, as well as distribute/get all packages ready for internal review.
- Ensure all samples are properly labeled with correct hangtags and product detail
- Supporting the product developer with responding to all supplier queries.
- Collating all information from suppliers from initial costs prices, weight fabric compositions and all product date required from the factory for product set up.
- Responsible for receiving all production samples and working closely with the GT team to check and require all samples before handed over for approval.
- Fabric management :
- Obtaining all fabric prices, dating all hangers and organising all swatches received.
- Keeping the fabric library organised and maintained
- Chasing all fabric approvals, colour approvals and print approvals.
- Following up all fabric test reports and validation of all fabric test reports to ensure that these are reviewed / approved and filed away.
Requirements
- Chinese speaking preferable but not essential
- Experience working with a fast-paced fashion environment
- Experience working within product development, preferably within occasionwear
- Knowledge of fabrics, costings, design construction, CP management
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills with experience in liaising with suppliers in Asia (China, India etc)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly excel
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.
- Strong organisational and multitasking abilities.
- Confident, assertive, and proactive, with the ability to build rapport and effectively communicate with people at all levels
- You will be determined to go the extra mile to achieve results.
- Ability to work individually as well as part of the team
What's on offer?
- Annual bonus scheme
- 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Extra day off for your birthday
- Flexible working hours around core hours of 10-4
- Cycle to work scheme
- 40% staff discount
- Healthcare Cashplan
- Free onsite gym
- Social events
- Department
- Product
- Locations
- Manchester HQ
- Employment type
- Full-time
Current Opportunities
Manchester HQ
Perks & Benefits
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Benefit 1
Flexible Working Hours and Early Finish Fridays
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Benefit 2
40% Staff Discount
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Benefit 3
Annual Bonus Scheme
Empowered People Empower People
Our employees are our greatest asset – each bringing unique and diverse skills with a collective ambition to drive the brand forward. Nurturing up-and-coming talent in a meritocratic environment that promotes collaboration, communication and curiosity, every natural entrepreneur has an opportunity to thrive no matter their level of experience in luxury fashion. As well as young talent, we’re proud to champion highly innovative and inspirational women, with 64% occupying leadership roles across marketing, creative, customer service and design sectors just to name a few. Our people-first approach is what makes a career at Club L London different and since the start, we’ve taken pride in our incredible teams who share our resilience, confidence and passion.
About Club L London
Founded in 2007 Club L was created with the vision of offering long-lasting luxury styles, trend-oriented collections with a twist and unique, statement designs that offer both exceptional quality and fit in an otherwise saturated market of fast-fashion and throw away goods.
Accessible luxury through considered purchasing, limited edition collections that leave no wastage and responsible and ethical manufacturing are at the heart of the brand, world-renowned for its premium fabrications, inclusive sizing and affordable price points.
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