Senior Product Development Manager - Toys
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ComfrtToy product development
Location: united StatesFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7–10+ years of product development experience, with significant direct experience in toys, plush, sensory products, or related consumer goods.
- Required Skills
- Product Development
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Product Development, Product Engineering, Industrial Design, Business, Merchandising, or a related discipline.
- 7–10+ years of product development experience, with significant direct experience in toys, plush, sensory products, or related consumer goods.
- Track record of developing and commercializing products from concept through mass production.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to analyze sales performance, market trends, competitive data, and product profitability.
- Understanding of retail math, including AUR, COGS, IMU, gross margin, sell-through, sales forecasting, and inventory performance.
- Deep technical knowledge of toy construction, materials, manufacturing processes, and product engineering.
- Understanding of toy safety standards, compliance requirements, and testing protocols.
- Experience working directly with overseas manufacturing partners, particularly in Asia.
- Experience managing product costing, value engineering, and target-margin objectives.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills for analyzing product performance and financial data.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and execute against aggressive development timelines.
Responsibilities
- Develop the toy category product roadmap with Product leadership and Merchandising.
- Analyze sales performance, consumer insights, market research, competitive activity, and product profitability to recommend product and assortment opportunities.
- Evaluate new product concepts for demand, target retail pricing, costs, margins, and projected sales.
- Own end-to-end toy product development from concept and design handoff through production approval.
- Partner with the Senior Toy Designer to develop technically sound, commercially viable products.
- Evaluate materials, construction, functionality, manufacturing capabilities, and product feasibility.
- Manage factories, suppliers, samples, development revisions, costing, quality, and milestones.
- Partner with QA and testing laboratories to complete toy safety testing, documentation, and approvals.
- Own the development calendar, trackers, specifications, and launch milestones; communicate risks and delays.
- Coordinate with Design, Merchandising, Sourcing, QA, Finance, Operations, and Marketing to deliver products and communicate recommendations to leadership.
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