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Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive our product and range strategy, across both existing and new categories.
- Identify gaps, trends, and commercial opportunities and translate them into new products and ranges.
- Proactively source new fabrics, qualities, and suppliers in the UK and internationally.
- Manage new product development from initial idea through sampling, costing, selection, and production.
- Lead our design and range-development programme, working with suppliers and external designers where required.
- Plan seasonal and ongoing ranges in line with customer demand, market trends, and sales performance.
- Manage and develop key supplier relationships across pricing, quality, lead times, and product development.
- Work closely with the CEO on significant supplier negotiations, buying decisions, and commercial opportunities.
- Resolve supplier-side product, quality, and commercial issues where required.
- Work closely with Sales and Merchandising to ensure product decisions reflect customer demand and stock performance.
- Lead the wider Product & Purchasing function and take ownership of its overall performance.
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What We're Looking For
- Strong experience within product development, buying, sourcing, or merchandising.
- Experience with physical products; textiles, fabrics, fashion, interiors, or wholesale experience would be highly advantageous.
- Strong product instinct and the ability to identify commercial opportunities.
- Experience sourcing and developing products with suppliers.
- Confident negotiating pricing, quantities, lead times, and commercial terms.
- Strong understanding of trends, customer demand, and range development.
- Commercially sharp, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership.
- Strong supplier relationship and communication skills.
- Able to combine creativity and product thinking with strong commercial judgment.
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The Opportunity Empee is an established fabric wholesaler with a long history, but we are currently taking the business into its next stage of growth — investing in our product ranges, digital capabilities, sales structure, and the way we operate.
This is an opportunity to take real ownership of product within the business and help shape what Empee sells next.
We are looking for someone who can take an idea or opportunity and make it happen — whether that means developing a new range with an existing supplier, identifying the next major fabric trend, or sourcing something completely new from around the world.
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