We are looking for an ambitious, highly motivated and passionate Junior Product Developer to join our in-house “Own Brand” Design Centre team at Footasylum. We are home to multiple brands across men’s, women’s, kid’s and accessories.

This Role gives great opportunity to the right candidate to work on Footasylum’s “own brands” such as Zavetti Canada, KWD, Alessandro Zavetti and many more.

The Team

We are a rapidly growing team of diverse talented individuals with a passion for all things fashion. Our aim is to help create an environment where you can achieve, progress and develop. You will be supported in your journey, and we will celebrate your progression with you.

The Product Development Team functions as a part of the larger Design Centre and we work extremely closely with Apparel Design, Buying and Merchandising.

Responsibilities of the Junior Product Developer:

• Working to a critical path to ensure that the development process is smooth and that the ex-factory dates are maintained. 
• Liaising with factories to chase in lab dips, strike offs, samples etc. and checking submissions alongside senior members of the team.
• Assist and learning with product developer’s guidance and ensuring that the products follow all safety standards and meet minimum requirements on testing. Understand grade rules across all categories.
• Visit the warehouse regularly to undertake QC checks.
• Assist with measuring & sending comments on own brand samples across men’s, women’s, juniors and accessories. 
• QC bulk production and feedback to factories, responsible for keeping QC log up to date by liaising with all relevant teams.
• Responsible for creating AQL inspection sheets and measurement sheets for 3rd party inspections (EKOL) and updating master AQL sheets for factories. 
• Ensuring all photo samples and SMS are arranged when needed and logged correctly.
• Send parcels with trims/ submissions/samples to factories for the team.

What Footasylum is looking for:

• A minimum of 1 year's experience within the high street fashion industry working across Men's, Ladies', Juniors and accessories.
• Able to travel to our warehouse to undertake QC checks.
• Excellent organisation skills to aid with general day-to-day responsibilities, including organising samples, archiving old samples & creating/removing submission files.
• Self-motivated and have good time management, with the ability to adapt and work to tight deadlines and deliver results within specified time frames 
• A proactive approach and being able to show initiative are essential.
• A positive attitude to aid great working relationships with colleagues.

Why Footasylum?

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills.

Our aim to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about designing happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.