Product Development & Sourcing Specialist
Our client, one of Ireland’s leading retail and wholesale businesses, is seeking an ambitious and detail-oriented Product Development & Sourcing Specialist to join their growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of own-brand food and non-food products, supporting product innovation, sourcing, quality, and commercial objectives within a fast-paced retail environment. Cork Based.
Package
- Generous salary doe
- Hybrid working
- Pension scheme
- Career development opportunities
- Employee benefits package
Responsibilities of this Product Development & Sourcing Specialist include:
- Manage supplier communications, product specifications, sample submissions, approvals, and ongoing project updates.
- Ensure own-brand products consistently meet quality, packaging, legal, and regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate product development and sourcing projects, ensuring timelines and key milestones are achieved.
- Conduct market, consumer, and competitor research to identify trends, innovation opportunities, and range improvements.
- Organise, prepare, and facilitate product tasting and sampling sessions, gathering feedback and recommendations.
- Review product submissions and support the selection of products that meet commercial, quality, and customer expectations.
- Maintain accurate product specifications, reports, and documentation across internal systems.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, sourcing partners, and cross-functional teams.
- Support product re-engineering, range optimisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Assist with the development and implementation of sustainable packaging solutions.
- Contribute to cost optimisation projects while maintaining product quality and customer value.
Requirements of this Product Development & Sourcing Specialist include:
- Degree in Food Technology, Food Science, or a related discipline.
- 2+ years’ experience within FMCG, food manufacturing, product development, quality, or technical roles.
- Strong project management and organisational skills.
- Experience with retailer specification systems and product specifications.
- Knowledge of food legislation and labelling requirements.
- Experience in product sampling and supplier management.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical ability.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team
Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Product Technologist – Home & Lifestyle
Our client, a hugely popular fashion retailer, is seeking a confident Product Technologist for their Home & Lifestyle team. As Product Technologist for our client’s Home & Lifestyle team, you must already have strong technical expertise to deliver quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose. You will come with experience in home and lifestyle products and be up-to-date on relevant testing. Dublin city centre based.
Salary & Package:
- Salary €65 – €71 DOE
- Bonus
- Pension
- Healthcare
- Agile working
Your day-to-day of these Product Technologist jobs include:
- Driving the delivery of the departmental and quality strategy in line with customer’s expectations
- Applying quality standards and commercially evaluating product testing
- Monitoring returns reports
- Undertaking benchmarking exercises with competitors
- Adhering to and ensuring best practices are followed
- Liaise with retail teams to understand and interpret customer feedback on quality issues
- In partnership with the buying teams, participate in supplier meetings to drive the quality agenda
- Engaging with Sourcing and Ethical to understand supplier performance.
- Identifying opportunities where process efficiencies can be developed and drive cost savings
- Through training and engagement with Buying and Suppliers, improve the sampling hit rate
Requirements for these Product Technologist jobs include:
- 3+ years’ experience in similar position
- Proactive problem solver and commercially minded
- Full understanding of mass production
- Experience of working hand-in-hand to varied supplier base
- Experience of implementing process and following through to review
- Experience of managing and delivering on projects
- Great people skills and ability to communicate the Quality message across the board
- Good IT skills
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Assistant Product Technologist – Home & Lifestyle
Our client, a hugely popular homeware and fashion retailer, is seeking a confident Assistant Product Technologist for their Home & Lifestyle team. As Assistant Product Technologist for our client’s Home & Lifestyle team, you must already have strong technical expertise to deliver quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose. You will come with experience in homeware, soft furnishings and toys and be up-to-date on relevant testing. Dublin city centre based.
Salary & Package:
- Salary €50-55k doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Healthcare
- Agile Working
Your day-to-day of this Assistant Product Technologist job include:
- Demonstrate technical knowledge to support the delivery of quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose.
- Assist with product development and adhere to “the Best Practice” sample process flow
- Investigate all Gold Seal rejections and communicate quality issues to product operations teams and suppliers
- Build competitor awareness to enable quality, fit and performance benchmarking versus key competitors
- Work with the compliance team to ensure the company quality standards are in line with industry standards (Value/Volume retail).
- Demonstrate an understanding of the legal/product/retail requirements for labelling
- Assist in identifying potential fit, fabric or component quality issues
- Compile and conclude tech packs and score card analysis as part of the delivery of the key line programme to ensure Primark quality standards and cost efficiencies are achieved
- Investigate and support resolution of quality issues in a timely manner with clear solutions and communication to all relevant stakeholders
Requirements for this Assistant Product Technologist job include:
- 2+ years experience in similar position
- Proactive problem solver and commercially minded
- Full understanding of mass production
- Experience of working hand-in-hand to varied supplier base
- Experience of implementing process and following through to review
- Experience of managing and delivering on projects
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDSPEC1
Product Technologist – Home & Lifestyle
Our client, a hugely popular fashion retailer, is seeking a confident Product Technologist for their Home & Lifestyle team. As Product Technologist for our client’s Home & Lifestyle team, you must already have strong technical expertise to deliver quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose. You will come with experience in home and lifestyle products and be up-to-date on relevant testing. Dublin city centre based.
Salary & Package:
- Salary €65 – €71 DOE
- Bonus
- Pension
- Healthcare
- Agile working
Your day-to-day of these Product Technologist jobs include:
- Driving the delivery of the departmental and quality strategy in line with customer’s expectations
- Applying quality standards and commercially evaluating product testing
- Monitoring returns reports
- Undertaking benchmarking exercises with competitors
- Adhering to and ensuring best practices are followed
- Liaise with retail teams to understand and interpret customer feedback on quality issues
- In partnership with the buying teams, participate in supplier meetings to drive the quality agenda
- Engaging with Sourcing and Ethical to understand supplier performance.
- Identifying opportunities where process efficiencies can be developed and drive cost savings
- Through training and engagement with Buying and Suppliers, improve the sampling hit rate
Requirements for these Product Technologist jobs include:
- 3+ years’ experience in similar position
- Proactive problem solver and commercially minded
- Full understanding of mass production
- Experience of working hand-in-hand to varied supplier base
- Experience of implementing process and following through to review
- Experience of managing and delivering on projects
- Great people skills and ability to communicate the Quality message across the board
- Good IT skills
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDSPEC1
Assistant Product Technologist – Home & Lifestyle
Our client, a hugely popular homeware and fashion retailer, is seeking a confident Assistant Product Technologist for their Home & Lifestyle team. As Assistant Product Technologist for our client’s Home & Lifestyle team, you must already have strong technical expertise to deliver quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose. You will come with experience in homeware, soft furnishings and toys and be up-to-date on relevant testing. Dublin city centre based.
Salary & Package:
- Salary €50-55k doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Healthcare
- Agile Working
Your day-to-day of this Assistant Product Technologist job include:
- Demonstrate technical knowledge to support the delivery of quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose.
- Assist with product development and adhere to “the Best Practice” sample process flow
- Investigate all Gold Seal rejections and communicate quality issues to product operations teams and suppliers
- Build competitor awareness to enable quality, fit and performance benchmarking versus key competitors
- Work with the compliance team to ensure the company quality standards are in line with industry standards (Value/Volume retail).
- Demonstrate an understanding of the legal/product/retail requirements for labelling
- Assist in identifying potential fit, fabric or component quality issues
- Compile and conclude tech packs and score card analysis as part of the delivery of the key line programme to ensure Primark quality standards and cost efficiencies are achieved
- Investigate and support resolution of quality issues in a timely manner with clear solutions and communication to all relevant stakeholders
Requirements for this Assistant Product Technologist job include:
- 2+ years experience in similar position
- Proactive problem solver and commercially minded
- Full understanding of mass production
- Experience of working hand-in-hand to varied supplier base
- Experience of implementing process and following through to review
- Experience of managing and delivering on projects
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDSPEC1
Product Technologist – Home & Lifestyle
Our client, a hugely popular fashion retailer, is seeking a confident Product Technologist for their Home & Lifestyle team. As Product Technologist for our client’s Home & Lifestyle team, you must already have strong technical expertise to deliver quality products that are safe, legal and fit for purpose. You will come with experience in home and lifestyle products and be up-to-date on relevant testing. Dublin city centre based.
Salary & Package:
- Salary €65 – €71 DOE
- Bonus
- Pension
- Healthcare
- Agile working
Your day-to-day of these Product Technologist jobs include:
- Driving the delivery of the departmental and quality strategy in line with customer’s expectations
- Applying quality standards and commercially evaluating product testing
- Monitoring returns reports
- Undertaking benchmarking exercises with competitors
- Adhering to and ensuring best practices are followed
- Liaise with retail teams to understand and interpret customer feedback on quality issues
- In partnership with the buying teams, participate in supplier meetings to drive the quality agenda
- Engaging with Sourcing and Ethical to understand supplier performance.
- Identifying opportunities where process efficiencies can be developed and drive cost savings
- Through training and engagement with Buying and Suppliers, improve the sampling hit rate
Requirements for these Product Technologist jobs include:
- 3+ years’ experience in similar position
- Proactive problem solver and commercially minded
- Full understanding of mass production
- Experience of working hand-in-hand to varied supplier base
- Experience of implementing process and following through to review
- Experience of managing and delivering on projects
- Great people skills and ability to communicate the Quality message across the board
- Good IT skills
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDSPEC1
