Product Technologist - GM
Core
Lead Own Label product development and manage branded product safeguarding for General Merchandise categories (Toys, Motor & Stationary), ensuring quality, compliance, and innovation.
Role type
Product Technologist (General Merchandise)
Builds
Own label products and iconic heroes for Asda customers
Domain
Retail / General Merchandise / Quality Assurance
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Product development lifecycle management, quality standards and legislative compliance, supplier performance management, market trend analysis, strategic risk assessment, cross-functional stakeholder influence
Preferred skills
Textile NPD experience, project and people management, commercial awareness
Technologies
Specification systems, market research tools
Responsibilities
Implement quality plans aligned with category strategy, manage benchmarking and customer complaint resolution, ensure supplier adherence to policies and specifications, maintain accurate legal labels on product specs, conduct market reviews and trend workshops, lead technical strategy for category, perform strategic risk assessments of the supply base, execute supplier audits and visits, participate in horizon scanning for risk mitigation