Product Developer

Accomplished Product Developer with 7 years total product development experience: Buyer Liaison/Assistant Product Developer for Nordstrom Rack
Soft/Hard Accessories | Product Developer for Nordstrom Rack Home Textiles/Hardlines | Product Developer for Nordstrom Swimwear & Lingerie

Product Developer for Nordstrom Swimwear & Lingerie

Job Responsibilities
• Serves as main supplier contact for development and production style details
• Collaborates with cross functional team members - design and merchandising to execute design intent, determines source and suggests
materials/construction details to drive style development into key price points
• Tracks and reports on seasonal adoption rates for department and leadership review
• Creates and maintains all development and production techpacks via Flex PLM
• Negotiates costing to meet mark-up goals
• Creates seasonal development calendar for all product categories
• Works with new/existing suppliers and social responsibility department to conduct factory audits
• Reviews all testing protocols by product category; for all failed testing reports, works with manufacturers to resolve as needed
• Assists in the annual review of supply base strategy - responsible for updating sourcing strategy documents quarterly for leadership review
• Leads vendor meetings - responsible for providing suppliers with performance reports, business updates and any hindsight learnings from recent
seasonal review

Nordstrom Rack Soft/Hard Accessories


Job Responsibilities
• Maintains all purchase orders
• Serves as a liaison between Nordstrom Merchandising Group & Nordstrom Product Group teams
• Manages Nordstrom Direct samples used for editorial and sell shots
• Serves as main supplier contact for all development & production style details
• Negotiates costing to meet mark-up goals
• Assists the Product Merchandiser with merchandising the line and editing new assortments
• Works with new/existing vendors and SR department to conduct annual factory audits
• Approves all pre-production and top of production samples


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Buyer Liaison/Assistant Product Developer

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Lauren Gilbert: Product Developer

Lauren Gilbert

Nordstrom Product Group

Nordstrom Rack Home Textiles & Hardlines

Nordstrom Product Group