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We are looking for brave summitteers who don´t want to stay put. Leave your footprint at Jack Wolfskin.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Join us at our headquarters in Idstein as Product Developer Apparel (m/f/x).
Reporting into the Head of Development for Lifestyle & Kids, this position is responsible for managing the product development process for the Men’s, Women’s and Kids apparel collections. This will be performed by close collaboration with Design, product management, materials teams and vendors. This role is expected to be a key player in the product development process and proactively drive the process.
The story begins
- Manage product development of apparel from Design handover to production
- Ensure protos, mockups, size set and PP samples are received and processed on time
- Work with cross functional team (fabric, PM & Design) to ensure suitability of fabrics into garments
- Proactively update tech packs and ensure accuracy of tech pack at all stages
- Ensure that cost sheets from the garment vendors are accurate and received on time
- Offer suggestions and solutions to engineer product to target costs
- Work with vendors for cost saving suggestions and gather cost options
- Work with fabric and quality teams to ensure garments meet JW quality standards
- Lead garment fitting sessions and use expertise to suggest fit improvements
- Work collaboratively with Design, PM, fabric, fit and other departments
- Travel to garment vendors, trade shows and market research as needed
- Ensure accuracy of data in system to link to SAP master data maintenance
Your proven path
- Completed studies in clothing technology, textile design, textile technology or similar
- Several years of professional experience in a comparable position
- In depth Knowledge of production garment construction and manufacturing
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and facilitation skills
- Ability to cope with change, make decisions and act comfortably with uncertainty
- Knowledge of material construction and related testing
- Knowledge of wear and physical testing
- Strong understanding of fit
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Growth mindset and positive attitude
We are an outdoor gear company and we act like it
- Exciting product world and international environment in a responsible and sustainable company
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Attractive employee discounts and additional company benefits
- Free water, coffee and tea specialities
- Informal culture and casual dress code
- Bike leasing, monthly subsidisation of up to two leasing contracts
- EGYM, company fitness programme with access to over 7000 studios
- Team events and sports programmes in the great outdoors and in our own gym
- Likeminded, our partner for mental health with many training opportunities
- Mobile working from abroad, up to 4 weeks
- Company language German and English
- Access to language courses
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Join us and apply online at our career portal, stating your desired salary and earliest start date.
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We, at Jack Wolfskin, are offering you an exciting job opportunity in a continuously developing working environment with flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths and swift implementation.
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We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
Please note: We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
