Product Development Specialist Job Description
Product development specialist
provides guidance in fitting on style direction for new developments and make necessary changes in garment design and construction.
Product Development Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Interface with the Divisional Merchandise Manager and manufacturing partners to meet product introduction timelines for fly reels
Identify the needs for DOE innovation based on collaboration and interactions with business, research, and manufacturing teams
Ownership of the development of reels, packs, and luggage for a planned increase in sales and gross margin
Partner with Design to ensure products are executed with design specifications
Fulfillment of standardization plan
Ensure work is of high quality
Support Product Development Coordinators in the research and execution of product Development
Extract business requirements and from product managers, business line owners and Exco
Communicate with vendors daily on all design and development details
Coordinate with the support teams in Zurich, Belgrade and Philadelphia from an operational perspective for Apex Collateral customers
Product Development Specialist Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Product Development Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ASQ, NMMA, PMI, CQE, CMQ/OE, EBE, TS16949, ISO, CPIM, CPSM
Education for Product Development Specialist
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Employers hiring for the product development specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Business, Science, Computer Engineering, Marketing, Technical, Information Systems, Finance
Skills for Product Development Specialist
Desired skills for product development specialist include:
Excel
Garment construction
PowerPoint
Global raw material procurement
Manufacturing
Garment specifications
Garment testing standards and protocols
Grading
Vegetables Seeds market and customer needs
Competitors’ key varieties
Desired experience for product development specialist includes:
Bachelor degree in engineering/industrial design or 8 years of technical experience required
Computer skills including MS Office, CAD software is preferred
Must have an education in design, fabric, and/or quality
Analyze data at a high level
7 plus years of experience in a product development role
Is able to explain difficult information
Product Development Specialist Examples
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Product Development Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a product development specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product development specialist
- Analyse technical and business application issues and implement/coordinate solutions using Java enterprise technologies based on the existing Apex Collateral platform
- Prepare delivery packages and release software to customers
- Coaching of new team members
- Manage Product Development projects independently or in a cross-functional team focusing on specific aspects of the project
- Contribute to risk assessments planning and evaluation of DoE’s
- Enable process improvement initiatives in alignment with other technical teams
- Act as the product development expert, demonstrating comprehensive technical knowledge for the Woven/PFL product line
- Gather customer information/specifications to develop new programs or redesigns of existing programs, driving toward the most value-added solution for the account
- Contribute to all relevant initiatives to achieve sales plans in collaboration with Sales
- Guide customers to the greatest value solution for their branding needs for a given product line
Qualifications for product development specialist
- Comfortably uses a variety of techniques (e.g., brainstorming, visualization, collaboration) to generate innovative ideas
- Looks beyond own resources for best practice information
- Minimum of 3 years industry related
- Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks in various stages of completion
- College or University Degree with emphasis on clothing
- Deep understanding of the design process, apparel and image aesthetics, costs and product development process
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a product development specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product development specialist
- Coordinate with GPD Hubs to deploy new items to production
- Prepare global price proposals using established tools and guidelines
- Sourcing, consolidating and warehousing data to be used in diligence requests
- Creating and maintaining up-to-date library of best-practice DDQ/RFP responses
- Ensuring that all delivered solutions meet the highest quality standards and satisfy all specified business requirements through rigorous validation and testing
- Translate Global Product Development and Ford business strategy into key messages, managing the dissemination, assessing and adjusting as necessary
- Interact regularly with multiple stakeholders including Communications, Strategy, HR, and PD Operations leaders to coordinate / integrate key messaging
- Leverage external and internal PD events to share key PD activities globally
- Develop internal and external speeches and presentation materials
- Develop and manage Product Development website
Qualifications for product development specialist
- Knowledge of technical problems e solutions
- College or university degree with emphasis on clothing or economics
- Deep understanding of the design process, apparel and product development process
- Attention and precision
- B-degree in Commerce and/or IT at NQF level no
- CAIB (SA) would be advantageous
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product development specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product development specialist
- Managing the tracking of the platform changes in collaboration with IS partner
- Co-managing the PLM & PLMA Change Advisory Board with IS partner
- Communicate the progress to all impacted stakeholders
- Explore and provide technical assessment on new technologies related to dosage delivery formats
- Development of new products utilizing technologies beyond the company’s current competencies
- Collect and maintain competitive pricing, and prepare competitive price comparisons (margin, sales, GMROI)
- Communicate product changes / update for internal distribution
- Responsible for “Make Item” setups
- Assist Sourcing Manager with packaging, comp, or sell sheet development and is responsible for collecting information for, and submitting, job tickets to marketing services
- Functional Test and Test Case Development
Qualifications for product development specialist
- At least 3 years’ experience in Banking industry with strong IT technical and digital background
- At least 2 years’ experience in product development environment
- Participate in system and process design creation/improvement meetings
- Statistics, Economics or Engineering graduate – preferably CSE / ECE / IT streams
- 2.5 – 4 years of work experience in acquisitions / commissioning / editorial experience preferably in the Engineering segment
- A minimum of 1 year proven chemistry laboratory experience (or equivalent) is required
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Product Development Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product development specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for product development specialist
- Acts as a liaison between marketing/sales and operations
- Investigates market opportunities and effect on market for present products
- Evaluates ideas and suggestions for new products and major enhancements to existing products
- Determines customer needs and preferences through research and analysis of industry technology, current processes and other methods
- Prepares requirements defining product scope, features, functionality and output
- Determines criteria used in screening product ideas and prepares complete proposals for management action
- May coordinate or lead product development teams
- May lead and coordinate activities of other lower level staff performing related functions
- Develop new product ideas by utilizing the development process and present to management during product planning meetings
- Develop an understanding of the company’s cost structure, analyze the development cost for each product and take appropriate action to maximize profit
Qualifications for product development specialist
- Working knowledge of validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), DOE’s, and descriptive statistics is highly desirable
- Knowledge of laboratory instruments such as auto-titration systems, blood coagulation analyzers, HPLC, and ICP-MS is highly desirable
- Exerting 20 to 50 pounds occasionally or 10 to 25 pounds frequently, or up to 10 pounds constantly
- Ability to manually operate a computer with a standard keyboard, laboratory equipment associated with mixing and testing of additives and applicable product
- At least 5-8 years hands-on experience as a developer in the Java enterprise environment
- Experience of developing the application interfaces
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a product development specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product development specialist
- Collaborate with Brand Director (BD) to create category calendar
- Responsible for evaluating benefit changes and impacts to the documentation and proposing recommendations for changes
- Supports local product managers and other product team members and may participate in various projects and product rollout activities
- Interacts with product management team to manage workload and to achieve critical annual delivery targets
- Ideal candidate is detail oriented and skilled at producing high accuracy and high quality results
- Leads the development of new category formulas from concept to final approval
- Work closely with and manages category formula development labs
- Organizes the testing of new category formulas
- Ensures that proper processes are followed and project timelines are achieved
- Partners closely with Regulatory Affairs to ensure formulas and development projects meet global compliance and testing requirements
Qualifications for product development specialist
- Experience with Agile, Scrum and test driven development
- Experience in the financial business domain, preferably within the collateral management and securities finance space
- Very Good expertise in the Java SE/JEE 6,7,8
- Very Good understanding of SQL (Oracle and MS SQL Server)
- Good expertise in software patterns and architectural enterprise concepts
- Good understanding of ORM/Hibernate, Spring and any other open source frameworks