Product Developer

3 weeks ago


Harpenden, United Kingdom Bennett & Game Recruitment Full time

**Product Developer - PackagingPosition Overview**

Responsibilities include:

- Provide product development and technical leadership for assigned projects.
- Work closely with internal sales colleagues to understand brief opportunities and restrictions.
- Attend external meetings with clients to provide technical knowledge and feedback on the development of projects.
- Ensure projects are managed tightly and are kept within agreed timings.
- With support from colleagues and third parties, be responsible for the success of outsourced production and delivery.
- Be responsible for product specification set up, including quality requirements.
- Be responsible for ongoing relationships with selected global manufacturers. Play a lead role in the development of new sourcing strategies.
- Ensure cost prices are optimised and remain competitive through market intelligence, expertise and negotiation.
- Manage relevant regulatory and certification requirements relating to Safety, CSR, REACH, etc.
- Ensure full and accurate administration in relation to pricing and product specifications maintained within the CRM system.
- Drive the companies' innovative approach with clients by keeping abreast of latest industry trends, practices, products and techniques.
- Proactively identify, recommend, and implement improvements to working practices.

**Product Developer - PackagingPosition Requirements**
- A passion for product.
- Excellence in delivering high value, high quality packaging projects to luxury brands.
- Excellent knowledge of materials, manufacturing processes and quality requirements for the development of packaging and gifting products.
- Experience in developing complex items directly with third party manufacturers, often in Far East locations.
- Understanding of Social and Ethical Compliance especially in relation to safe working conditions and practices within factories
- Understanding of commercial artwork and printing
- Able to travel to mainland China and other Asia Pacific countries as well as occasionally to Europe.
- Good business sense, financial management, good negotiation skills, flexible, organised, self
- sufficient.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Highly motivated, results driven.
- Team player.
- Adept at fostering and maintaining strong working relationships at all levels of seniority, both with external organisations and internal personnel.

**Product Developer - PackagingPosition Remuneration**
- Salary of circa £40,000
- Hybrid working
- Enhanced annual leave
- Career break options
- Employee Assistance Program
- Enhanced parental leave
- Employee referral scheme
- Company sick pay

Bennett & Game Recruitment are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy.



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