Senior Product Development Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Product Development Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with factories to develop sellable and cost conscious diamond heavy products in parameters set by CEOs;
- Map out product development plan – pace of development, number of styles and which styles to be launched when – in collaboration with marketing;
- Troubleshoot quality issues with factories in sampling phase;
- Review designs from any designer or collaboration partner to assess manufacturability and realistic cost expectations;
- Foster healthy relationships with existing vendors, manufacturers and their key employees for the benefit of the company;
- Audit vendor performance regularly and make decisions on which relationship to keep based on needs, quality, etc;
- Understand how to toe the line of a personal relationship with someone and know how to get the best results leveraging this;
- Initiate, onboard and maintain healthy relationships with domestic and local manufacturers and vendors for development and production;
- Manage product development process from handoff of conceptual design from designer/s, through sample approval;
- Manage all members of product development team including factories making samples and any outsourced talent for design/development;
- Update and enforce vendor manual, define chargeback structure and tracking;
- Responsible for costing all jewelry based on sampling and negotiations pre- production, collaborating with Production on sourcing components;
- Own all tracking systems for development cycles and team – allow team members to use day-to-day and audit on as needed basis for accountability;
- Set and articulate expectations for new product development and ensure timely delivery according to development calendar;
- Assign SKUs to styles that are going forward and collaborate with production manager on Netsuite SKU creation.
Requirements:
- 5-10 years of product development in the fine jewelry industry;
- Proven ability to manage development cycles efficiently;
- Extensive management experience in a fast-paced environment;
- Direct experience in the home industry a must;
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and track-record of working with others;
- Exceptional analytical skills, with a data-driven approach to problem solving;
- Superior organizational skills and ability to prioritize workload autonomously;
- Strong aesthetic sensibility and eye for good design;
- Minimum of 1 year experience in directly managing a team;
- Working closely with clients and potential clients based in the US to design and implement efficient fund structure solutions;
- Aligning the AMX business in terms of resources required (internal, as well as external advisors) and priority of implementation;
- Ensuring new fund structures are operationally and commercially viable, and part of the wider AMX strategic vision;
- Working with Business Development and AMX senior management to help set the strategy for US structures and functionality;
- Extensive management experience in a fast-paced environment;
- Impeccable attention to detail, highly organized with the ability to manage several development projects at one time.