footwear product development manager
Footwear product development managers coordinate the footwear design and the product and collection development process in order to comply with design specifications, deadlines, strategic requirements and policies of the company. They track style development and review design specifications in order to meet the design vision, the manufacturing environment, and the company’s financial goals.
Also called: footwear product manager, senior product developer, footwear development team leader, footwear production and development manager, footwear production & development manager, pre-production manager, product development team leader
- 27
- essential skills
- 9
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 1223
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- footwear product developerWhat changes?25 skills in common
- footwear designerWhat changes?20 skills in common
- leather goods product development managerWhat changes?16 skills in common
- footwear production manager13 skills in common
- footwear quality manager13 skills in common
- leather goods product developer13 skills in common
- footwear production supervisor11 skills in common
- footwear production technician11 skills in common
Essential skills
27- apply development process to footwear design
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- create patterns for footwear
- create solutions to problems
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- develop footwear collection
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear components
- footwear creation process
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- health and safety in the workplace
- implement footwear marketing plan
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- perform market research in footwear
- perform pattern grading
- plan supply chain logistics for footwear and leather goods
- prepare footwear samples
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
- work in textile manufacturing teams
No account needed to start
How close are you to being a footwear product development manager?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.