Head of Product Development
4 weeks ago
House of Fashion Associates Ltd is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Product to lead our design and buying teams in creating innovative, trend-focused, and commercially viable designs for our global fashion brand.
Key Responsibilities:- Develop and grow talent within the department and support team by providing consistent direction and support to achieve stretch targets and take leadership positions.
- Enhance team productivity through recognition, skills development, and coaching.
- Work closely with marketing and merchandising to ensure stock remains tight and commercial, working on product strategy and frameworks.
- Lead design and buying teams of varying levels by providing clear strategic direction.
- Work closely with both the design team and the buying teams on colour palettes, prints, and trends for the coming seasons.
- Define the collections and produce them to reflect the brand's concept while ensuring a good balance of innovation and commerciality.
- Responsible for the critical path and calendar timelines alongside buying and design to ensure quality and timeliness of all critical path milestones.
- Facilitating the seasonal development calendar.
- Supervising designs for all phases and seasons, providing direction to senior and junior designer/buyers.
- An ability to maintain a brand's identity and keep up to date with current trends.
- Technical knowledge of product, raw materials, manufacturing techniques, and processes.
- Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to manage designers/buyers in a positive and strategic way, while nurturing creativity at all levels.
- Improve department efficiency by proactively taking measures to reduce time, cost, identify, and resolve issues.
- Determine buying requirements and formulate buying plan and budget for the assigned department/category with head of merchandising.
- Ensuring that entire buying strategy is as per the buying budget with appropriate phasing and coherent with size of the buying.
- Innovative design thinking with the ability to generate and execute design ideas.
- Proficiency in incorporating emerging trends and technologies into fashion design.
- Strong skills in trend forecasting and market analysis with the ability to interpret consumer behaviour and preferences to inform design decisions.
- Ability to inspire and lead creative teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Experience in mentoring and developing design and buying talent.
- Significant proven experience in the role of Product Lead across design and or buying.
- 5 years plus of experience in managing and developing a team.
- Significant experience creating and controlling a product development department budget.
- Proven experience in a role requiring strong organisational and administrative skills, accuracy, attention to detail, and prioritising of a diverse workload.
- Team player, whilst having the ability to delegate.
- Proven management and leadership skills.
- Able to work under pressure and to prioritise.
- Strong understanding and ability to interpret designs into product.
- Ability to deal with change.
- Proficiency in financial planning and resource management related to design projects.
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