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About the Role

As a Product Development Technologist, you will manage the safety, legality, quality, product development, sustainability, and provenance aspects of the product life cycle, ensuring compliance with technical standards and policies across multiple categories using specialist knowledge. You will manage supplier/factory technical relationships and lead improvements in product and process, aiming to exceed customer expectations and create industry-leading products.

Responsibilities

Deliver compliant, safe, legal, and quality product assortments that are customer-focused, understanding and complying with all relevant product regulations and safety standards.
Set, maintain, and communicate product specifications and standards, interpreting designs and briefing new products.
Develop and implement the technical strategy into the category strategy, including lessons learned, compliance, ethical, technical, and sustainability requirements.
Review and approve product development against agreed standards.
Approve testing and certification for all legal and performance standards, including chemical compliance, and maintain accurate technical files.
Support the end-to-end product development process from concept to delivery to ensure quality products.
Assess product suitability, including performance, design, quality, safety, and functionality, ensuring the product is fit for purpose.
Drive continuous improvement by analyzing suppliers' technical performance.
Conduct product insight, horizon scanning, innovation, competitor analysis, benchmarking, and maintain detailed knowledge of technical/legal requirements.
Drive continuous product improvement by analyzing quality performance, returns figures, reviews, customer voice data, escalated complaints, and stakeholder feedback.
Collaborate with suppliers and internal/external stakeholders to ensure product compliance and reduce faulty returns and customer complaints through failure analysis and root cause investigations.
Manage key raw material/sustainability data to ensure compliance with raw material targets.
Provide quality and technical contributions to product tenders and assortment reviews.

Requirements

Experienced in a technical role in retail or manufacturing typically covering product development, product testing & compliance, and supplier engagement.
Strong fitting and garment construction knowledge.
A degree or equivalent industry 'on the job' training in an appropriate discipline.

Skills

3D fitting knowledge is desirable.

Location

London Central Office, Pimlico
London Central Office, 1 Drummond Gate, London, SW1V 2QQ

Work Type

Hybrid working
Fixed term contract/secondment
35 hours per week

Experience Level

Partnership Level 6

Education Level

Degree or equivalent industry 'on the job' training

Salary/Compensations

Salary up to £60k depending on experience
£57,400.00 - £86,200.00 Annual

About the Company

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Equal Opportunity

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates).
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working.
This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.
Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.