Overview
Working on this Category Management Team for Pushchairs & Nursery Equipment alongside Designers, Technicians and Engineers, this Senior Product Developer role aims to conceptualise and invigorate our evergreen ranges across fabric accessories (e.g. winter mittens that attach to pram handles, or matching travel or changing bags as part of the wider “range”), or simply look to invigorate the fabric look / feel across our current Hard Good products, with a fabric‑based trend mindset.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify requirement
- Cost it
- Develop it
- Land it
The role involves setting price, margin and costings, negotiating with suppliers and manufacturing partners, visiting the Far East or travelling internationally, using gap and competitor analysis to ensure we have the right products in the right place, at the right time, at the right margin and return on investment, aligned to “Our Purpose” as a business.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will come from a product development or buying background (note this is not a designer role), with significant understanding of fabrics within product development, able to collaborate cross‑functionally to make things happen, creating compelling and well‑researched aligned goals that engage internally and externally, to deliver against a structured critical path.
Location & Working Hours
This role is full time, 5 days a week, with 3 days based at our Huddersfield Head Office (HD5 0RH) and 2 days from home (Hybrid working).
Benefits
We’re a business that cares. Here’s just some of our benefits on offer:
- 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
- Buy & Sell holiday schemes
- Company Bonus Schemes
- Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
- Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online
- Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations, from holidays, travel, restaurants, gifts & services to many more worthy discounts through our Benefits Hub
- Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances
- Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave)
- Supportive Foster Care & Carers Leave offering
- Support for Loss and Bereavement
- A Menopause Friendly Employer
- Employee Recognition and Appreciation Schemes
- At Mamas & Papas, we’re a business for the future. Every day, we help to welcome a new generation of children into the world, and we want them to grow up in a world that’s sustainable – one that’s full of opportunity and hope.
- Oh, and a great bunch of people to work with too.
Head Office Operations
- Hybrid flexi working of 3 days in the office.
- Flexi-time schemes based around core working hours whether in the office, or working from home
- Plus, free car parking, Prayer & Contemplation room, subsidised canteen, free tea & coffee, Games & TV rooms & much more.
(NB*: All benefits subject to individual schemes criteria & terms)
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