Avery Dennison Corporation is looking to solve the problem of efficiently developing and deploying new products, ensuring they meet customer needs, align with market trends, and achieve sales objectives. This involves managing the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from initial concept and customer briefing to final production and approval, while also providing product expertise and innovative solutions to the commercial team and clients.
Requirements
- Knowledge of printing, weaving, heat transfer, variable data, and manufacturing strongly preferred.
- High level of PC skills, including use of Word, Excel, ERP (Oracle preferred), pricing tools, product/customer databases.
- Solid mathematical skills for pricing.
Responsibilities
- Execute the product development process from customer briefing to artwork development, costing/pricing, sampling, and final approval.
- Gather product specifications for new programs, or redesigns of existing programs, and re-engineer options to meet target prices.
- Coordinate with GPD team and variable data end-to-end specialists to deploy new items into production.
- Prepare global price proposals using established tools and guidelines and escalate price approval in competitive situations.
- Support digital sampling, re-engineering and smart sampling initiatives.
- Provide product knowledge within our Heat Transfer, Woven, Printed Fabric, and Paper product lines by bringing insights, solutions, and options to the Commercial team and the customer.
- Partner with the Commercial team to develop product opportunities, to drive key initiatives and to achieve sales objectives for assigned accounts.
Other
- 2+ years of experience in new product development.
- Knowledge of the retail, apparel or label industries.
- Passion for products, trends, insights, possibilities, and development.
- Ability to establish and maintain customer relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to be highly organized while managing multiple projects to completion against tight deadlines.
- Highly effective oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- Thrive in a collaborative, matrixed environment, coordinating with multiple people and global functions.
