Product Development Manager

Wecommgroup — United Kingdom · Posted ~3 hours ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

Product development Product sourcing Concept development Sampling Manufacturing Product launch Product category development Supplier management

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A Product Development Manager is sought to build new consumer product categories from the ground up. You will own the journey from initial concepts and sourcing through sampling, manufacturing, and launch, while driving innovation across children's products, textiles, accessories, apparel, and gifting. The role offers substantial autonomy and direct collaboration with senior leadership.

Highlights

High-ownership product leadership opportunity to build new categories from concept through launch. The role provides broad responsibility across sourcing, sampling, manufacturing, innovation, and commercial delivery, with direct access to senior leadership.

Description

The Brand An INCREDIBLE opportunity to join one of the UK's fastest-growing baby and personal care brands, recognised in The Sunday Times Fastest Growing Private Companies rankings in both 2025 and 2026! This ambitious, disruptive business is entering a HUGE new phase of growth, expanding beyond its hugely successful core range into gifting, textiles, apparel and lifestyle products. They're now looking for a Product Development Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping the next chapter of their journey. The Role: As Product Development Manager, you'll have the opportunity to build entirely new product categories from the ground up, taking ownership of everything from initial concepts and sourcing through to sampling, manufacturing and launch. Working directly with the Managing Director, you'll drive innovation across gifting, baby and children's textiles, accessories and apparel, bringing exciting new products to market. This is a rare opportunity to make a genuine impact within a rapidly scaling business where your ideas can become reality. The Person: We're looking for an ambitious, commercially minded Product Development Manager with proven experience across textiles, gifting, apparel or soft goods. You'll understand the full product development lifecycle, with strong experience in supplier management, sourcing, materials, manufacturing, costing and quality compliance. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, love taking ownership and be excited by the opportunity to create something from scratch within one of the UK's most exciting growing consumer brands.