Customer Product Development Generalist

As a Customer Product Development Specialist you play a key role in elevating our customers’ brands by leading the development of creative, innovative branding solutions for apparel and footwear brand owners and retailers. You will lead the product development process by defining new programme requirements in collaboration with the sales teams, from point of initiation to customer approval.

In this position you provide deep product expertise within our interior Heat transfers, Woven/Printed Fabric Labels and, Paper product lines by bringing insights, solutions, and options to the sales team and the customer.

Activities may include, but are not limited to the following:

- Partner with colleagues as the product line expert within a territory, demonstrating comprehensive technical knowledge for the interior HTL, Woven/PFL, Paper product lines.

- Support the Commercial team on complex product opportunities to drive key initiatives and achieve sales objectives for assigned accounts.

- Effectively manage product development process from customer briefing to artwork development, costing/pricing, sampling, and final approval.

- Guide our customers to the greatest value solution for their branding needs by gathering product specifications for new programs, or redesigns of existing programs, and re-engineering options to meet target prices.

- Collaborate closely with product line management team on new product innovation pipeline.

- Co-ordinate with GPD team and variable data end-to-end specialists to deploy new items to production.

- Prepare global price proposals using established tools and guidelines and escalate price approval in competitive situations.participate in store audits, customer meetings and calls, creation of the selling narrative, and resolving product-related global deployment issues, as needed.