Product Development Manager – Fashion, Lifestyle, Consumer Products, or Tech.
Hertfordshire - on-site | £55k - £60k + Benefits
This is a unique opportunity to bring your experience from fashion, lifestyle, performance sports or consumer tech into a category that’s exploding in popularity worldwide. Our client is investing in bold, innovative products that will excite consumers, retailers, and new audiences around the globe. This is a highly visible role, blending creativity, commercial thinking, and technical execution. Whether it’s pushing boundaries in design, introducing smarter materials, or optimising packaging and compliance, you’ll be at the heart of our client’s growth strategy.
The Role As our New Product Development Manager, you’ll own the full product lifecycle – from concept through to launch. You’ll design and deliver a rolling three-year innovation pipeline, working closely with our UK design team, overseas suppliers, and commercial leaders to ensure every product is both desirable and commercially successful.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a 3-year product pipeline, ensuring continuous innovation.
- Manage end-to-end product development: concept, sampling, prototyping, approvals, and launch.
- Collaborate with internal design, marketing, and supply chain teams, plus external partners in China.
- Own project management – deadlines, budgets, and cross-team communication.
- Deliver best-in-class products that blend function, performance, and lifestyle appeal.
- Manage pricing structures, SKUs, and BOMs while supporting forecasting and commercial planning.
- Conduct market and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and gaps.
- Ensure all products meet compliance standards (UKCA, CE, WEEE, EU Rep).
- Analyse sales and product lifecycle performance, refining future strategies.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in product development within fashion, lifestyle, performance sports, consumer products, or tech.
- Proven success building multi-year product pipelines.
- Commercially minded with strong data analysis and forecasting skills.
- Experience working with international suppliers, ideally Far East.
- Comfortable balancing creative thinking with commercial discipline.
- Strong communication and project management skills – able to lead cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of compliance standards for UK/EU/ROW markets.
- Entrepreneurial mindset – thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
Why Join?
- Be part of a category-leading global brand in one of the UK’s fastest-growing categories.
- Drive innovation across fashion, performance, and lifestyle-led product design.
- Work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial team where your ideas shape the future.
- Opportunity to make a direct, visible impact on product strategy and growth.
If you’re ready to take your product development expertise into a fast-growing category, we’d love to hear from you.