Product Developer

at  Aldo Group

EXPERIENCE

Not Specified

YOUR ROLE

The ALDO Group, a worldwide leader in fashion footwear and accessories, is looking for experienced talent to join its in-house product development team. As Product Developer you continually deliver fashion forward footwear trends that are reflective of the brand, consumer market and that meet its standards of high quality and fashion.
The Product Developer role is ideal for candidates that thrive in a fast-paced environment while being driven by their passion for footwear fashion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct research of current and upcoming fashion trends and interpret for the customer.
• Assist in design meetings to provide brand building ideas.
• Develop relationships and work closely with suppliers to develop new products and negotiate initial product costs.
• Calculate the IMU (initial markup) and provide recommendations to achieve both design and targeted IMU price targets in conjunction with suppliers.
• Responsible for price closing and negotiations taking into consideration material, construction, etc.
• Oversee sample development (prototypes, sales, and confirmation) to ensure proper execution. Tracking the modifications and obtaining approvals with the director and design team.
• Ensure that the product quality feedback is communicated to agents and internal teams (buyers, design and product engineering)
• Lead communications for manufacturing lead times with our Operations team (XF and delivery dates).
• Review development and confirmation samples for aesthetic, fit, design and quality, obtaining approval.
• Supervise worksheet creation and updates.
• Constantly analyzing sales results to propose new injections and repeats.
• Manage Digital Filtering prep. (unbox proto samples, merchandise and set up the protos into sections to reflect digital deck layout)
• Manage SMS specifications and requests.
• Validate target costs to reflect SMS requests.
• Prep showroom for Handover Finalization (Unbox samples, merchandise and set up the SMS into sections.
• Manage HF regroup. Manage all sample comments and new additions.
• Manage revised SMS request.
• Validate all revised SMS.