Product Developer

JD Sports- Head Office, Warwick House, Bury, Bury, United Kingdom

Job Description

Posted Thursday 5 March 2026 at 01:00

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Product Developer

JD Own Brand

Responsible to: Department:

Senior Product Developer

Own Brand

Location:

JD Sports Fashion plc, Edinburgh House, Hollinsbrook way, Pilsworth, Bury, BL9 8RR

Role Overview:

The Product Developer is responsible for the development of our own brand product. Working alongside the Senior product developer, Designer and Buying team for their brands they will support with the continous improvement of product from a technical perspective, ensuring that quality is maintained and compliance legislation is adhered to. Improving retail sales and margin improvement is the key objective of this role.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Drive intake margin improvement through garment engineering and appropriate fabric selection and utilisation to ensure best possible prices without compromising relevant quality level for the Brand.
• Set up size specs / blocks & graded size charts for all product areas.
• Issue all size specs/Tech packs for development & production to factories & suppliers ensuring continuity & consistency.
• Sample product in line with the Sourcing Strategy and provide samples and costings to Buying team.
• Open Cost where needed.
• Working alongside the buying team, maintain the critical path for all orders.
• Have weekly critical path meetings with buying, merchandising, allocators, & supply chain.
• Drive fit meetings with buying & design, ensuring that technical packs / fit comments are sent to suppliers & factories without any delay.
• To inspect, measure and comment on samples (proto samples through to production) Approving each stage of development.
• Manage and approve fabric testing & care label development with the Suppliers.
• Approve lab-dips and strike offs referring issues to the design and buying team
• Ensure product quality meets the relevant standards.
• Work with the warehouse to review and feedback any issues.
• Provide support for the Senior product developer to ensure that factories follow company supplier guidelines.
• Ensure product compliance in line with all relevant legislation.
• Conduct factory visits/warehouse trips to develop/improve production.
• Manage the Junior Product Developer in the team.

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.