Jewelry Product Manager - Mumbai, India - Grown Diamond Corporation

Description

1. Assess market trends

• conduct research for the trends and forecasting the demand for the next seasons.
• Work directly with USA based customers. Liaison between customer, design team, manufacturing and sales to execute the right requirement/customer demand.
• follow various jewellery design publications, exhibitions, etc., to understand new design trends
• form hypothesis of the new design modifications required for different price points.

2. Develop jewellery design concept

• provide visual image, photographs of the design concepts to designers
• give instructions to designers in terms of product type, size, dimensions, shapes, materials as per research information gathered
• get the hand sketch designs done by designers and select the designs
• provide selected designs to CAD operator for developing 3D models with detailing and dimensions for jewellery pieces to be manufactured check quality of the hand sketch and CAD design.

3. Present the designs to senior management

• prepare design brief in terms of uniqueness, practicality, potential in the market and price

points.

• present the design concepts
• discuss and finalize the designs

4. Implement product development plan

• prepare the product development plan
• Checking the silver models and waxes.
• Quality checking of final Master samples including diamond quality.
• Possessing knowledge of precious and semi-precious gemstones, developing a color stone jewelry line.
• Communicating with outsourced vendors.
• Validating Cost cards and samples received from different vendors.
• document all the communications and suggestions related to design modification

5. Provide marketing support

• present the new products to the marketing team
• jointly showcase products to the customers and in exhibitions
• select designs for running marketing campaign, catalogues
• self-check each design in terms of dimensions, clarity and practicality
• ensure timely delivery of the required number of quality approved designs

6. Report problems related to:

• complexity of designs
• faulty equipment or software operation
• mismatch in design concept in terms of design trends, customer requirement, production limitations and the appropriate action to take if refinement or modification are required
• reasons for anticipated delays that may adversely affect delivery