About this role
Job title: Product Development Assistant
About the Role This role supports Burberry's Product Development team by helping deliver end-to-end product development in the assigned category. Based in Florence, Italy, the role collaborates with product developers, manufacturers and suppliers to ensure on-time and on-budget deliveries.
What You'll Do
- Inputting and updating PLM, ensuring accuracy is maintained throughout the collection
- Working closely with the Product Developers to ensure a good relationship is maintained with manufacturers and suppliers and shipments are delivered on time and to budget
- Collection overview documentation management
- Tracking and reporting on budget for product development, prototypes and samples
- Organising, filing and archiving samples and swatches
- Providing support to the product development team and design team regarding product information (spec sheets, colour cards, sample archives)
- Updating boards and collection books
- Supporting the PD Admin with administrative tasks as required.
What We're Looking For
- Some Product Development experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience with large volumes of data entry, ensuring complete detail and accuracy even when working at speed
- Commercial awareness of product cost and tracking against budgets
- Good communication skills, able to effectively share information with the team in a clear, concise way
- Knowledge and passion for fashion and products in relevant category – 'fashion sensibility' – knowledge of trends, the market, the luxury consumer and peer awareness
- Demonstrated ability to operate at pace with flexibility, initiative and solution orientated
- Strong organisational skills
- Computer skills: PLM, Excel