STRATA® Product Manager

Role Overview:

Responsible for ensuring the STRATA® Product Range fulfils the brand strategy to the utmost.

You will be a product expert with a passion to transform research – with customers, colleagues, supply chain partners – into technical design, working closely with other departments to bring those designs to sale ready products so we have the best opportunity to provide the ultimate STRATA® product range.

You will be a product expert with a passion to transform research – with customers, colleagues, supply chain partners – into technical design, working closely with other departments to bring those designs to sale ready products so we have the best opportunity to provide the ultimate STRATA® product range.

  • Position: STRATA® Product Manager
  • Location: Doncaster Offices
  • Reporting Line: Managing Director

Job Responsibilities

1. Research - Customer interaction

  • Reaching out to key wearers / market spaces and interacting with wearers, understanding what works, what doesn’t work, what needs improving
  • Working on wearer feedback received via Customer Surveys, colleagues, return

Industry Research

  • Competitor research
  • Related industry research, e.g. fashion, sports, outdoor, 
  • Related product & PPE research to establish potential gaps in product range

Product Research

  • Fabrics
  • Components
  • Branding

2. Design and Development

  • Using the information gathered in the Research stage, establishing
    • Current product development enhancement needs
    • New product development opportunities
    • Within STRATA Arc & Flame Garment Ranges, but also in related additional PPE opportunities.
  • Working with the “design team” to bring ideas and concepts to life
  • Presenting your concepts and designs to a business committee – and welcoming feedback

3. Technical Design

  • Taking the conceptual designs through to Technical Design – ensuring key features, design elements, functional elements are explicitly documented.
  • Working with the Technical & Production Team to enable them to translate the Technical Design into tech pack, pattern making, physical sampling and then production readiness.

4. Wearer Trials & Samples Stage

  • Working with wearer groups and the technical and production team to have samples / wearer trials evaluated, eliciting feedback and improvement objectives.

5. Team Management
6. Product Pipeline Management

      Relationships

      The job has functional relationships with:

      • Marketing – for brand direction
      • Technical & Production – for garment tech, sampling, production
      • Sales – for customer/wearer interaction
      • Supply Chain – for forecasted demand and current stock

      The job has line management responsibility for:

      • Market Research
      • Design Creation
      • Technical Design

      Key Performance Indicators:

      • Concept to Design Leadtime
      • STRATA® Product Sales
      • STRATA® Product Profitability

      Any other Information:

      • Travel will be required
      • Working as a Team with other major stakeholders
      • Value is the key driver – it has to be right for the market/industry/customer segment.
      • Project management capabilities and being able to work to strict deadlines is essential.

        Applying for this role: 

        To apply for this exciting new opportunity, contact Russell Long (russell.long@skanwear.com) with a CV and covering letter.