Senior Product Development Manager
Smethwick, West Midlands | £50,000–£55,000 depending on experience | Senior Management Team
Protective workwear with a conscience
Supertouch has been designing, manufacturing and supplying quality PPE and workwear since 1996. We employ around 65 people from our head office in Smethwick and over 700 people at our own garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. We're a family business with a genuinely different bottom line: half of our profit goes to charity through the Balqees Welfare Foundation, supporting people out of poverty, into education, and towards better health.
We're now looking for a Senior Product Development Manager to lead our Product department and help shape the next chapter of our ranges, from Hi-Vis & workwear to disposables and protective gloves.
The opportunity
This is a genuine opportunity to shape the future of the business. You'll join our Senior Management Team, reporting directly to the Managing Director, with ownership of product strategy, design, development, costing and sourcing across our core categories. You'll lead a team of four: two Workwear Designers, a Product Developer for gloves and PPE, and a Technical Manager, and you'll work closely with our Purchasing, Sales and Marketing teams to bring products to market that our customers can trust and our factory in Karachi is proud to make.
You'll take real commercial ownership too: setting target costs, negotiating with suppliers, managing margins alongside our Head of Commercial, and reporting directly on progress to the senior team. It's a role with genuine breadth, and genuine influence over where our product ranges go next.
As Supertouch continues to grow, so will this role. We're looking for someone who wants to build their department, develop their team, and build their career with us over the years ahead.
What you'll bring
- Experience in a senior product, design or development role within PPE, workwear, safety equipment or a related technical product sector
- A track record of taking products from concept through to successful launch, including ownership of costs, margins and supplier negotiations
- Confidence managing compliance requirements across PPE and workwear
- Experience leading or mentoring a design or development team
- Comfort working with international manufacturing partners, ideally including experience with suppliers in Pakistan or the Far East
- The commercial awareness to talk costs and margins as fluently as you talk design and fabric
What's on offer
- £50,000–£55,000 depending on experience
- A genuine path to grow the role and the department as Supertouch grows
- A seat on the Senior Management Team from day one
- Company pension scheme
- 23 Days annual leave plus bank holidays
- EV charging on site
- The chance to work for a family business where your work directly supports people out of poverty, into education and towards better health
If you want a product role where your decisions matter, where you'll have a real say in shaping the future of our ranges, and where there's genuine scope to grow as the business grows, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now to become part of Supertouch's story.
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