From footwear production manager to footwear product development manager
13 of the 27 essential skills of a footwear product development manager are already essential for a footwear production manager — about 48% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 14
- would be new
- 48%
- of the target job covered
- 27
- essential skills of a footwear product development manager
What a footwear product development manager does
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.
What carries over
13 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- footwear components
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- health and safety in the workplace
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- 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
What would be new
14 skillsEssential for a footwear product development manager and not for a footwear production manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply development process to footwear design
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- 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 creation process
- implement footwear marketing plan
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- perform market research in footwear
- perform pattern grading
Other moves from footwear production manager
2 roles- footwear production technician20 skills in common
- footwear production supervisor12 skills in common
← footwear production managerfootwear product development manager →The other way round
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How far are you from 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.