La-Z-Boy Incorporated brings the transformational power of comfort to people, homes, and communities around the world. The Senior Product Design Specialist supports product design programs to maximize sales and profitability, manages product design data, and ensures effective cross-functional communication for new product details.
Assists in developing balanced assortment of products, to include all product design programs, as well as assisting in the selection of all fabric and leather for each market introduction to include married fabric combinations.
Coordinates the product strategy sessions and all associated deliverables. Creates and maintains overall market strategy deck through the process. Directs outsource designers with criteria for new style sketch assignments. Works in collaboration with R&D to prioritize new project scheduling.
Assists Product Design team with market planning and execution, to include product flow, cover to frame, and market Gantt.
Assists Merchandise team with ordering, tracking and deliveries for product materials.
Creates and maintains new product documentation through management of new product database, NPI’s, NPM’s, change log, product merchandisers, etc.
Collaborates with Merchandise and IT partners on creating and maintaining a PIM system for product data.
Assists managers in pertinent research on competition and trends and prepares supporting deliverables
Collaborates with Marketing on and supports the Product Design team with marketing events on behave of Merchandising.
Supports Product Design team with deliverables needed as part of the engineering projects and LPDS process.
Act as a core team member on LPDS projects during projects in phase 3-5 of the phase gate process.
Manages key account projects and alternate channel distribution in conjunction with Sales on behalf of Merchandising.
Qualification
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Design or related field with 2-4 years of relevant experience.
Proficient with Microsoft Suite
Textile and furniture industry knowledge
Strong presentation skills
Up to 25% Travel Required (R&D, vendors, dealers, market, etc.)
Preferred
Proficient with Microsoft Access, Project, and Photoshop
Proficient in the use of Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator
Experience with Product Information Management or Master Data Management software
Benefits
Medical
Vision
Dental
Basic Life Insurance
401k retirement plan with company match of up to 6%
Paid time off includes: 9-11 paid holidays each year, two weeks’ prorated vacation as a new hire and either personal time (non-exempt only) or state mandated sick time.
La-Z-Boy Incorporated brings the transformational power of comfort to people, homes, and communities around the world—a mission that began when our founders invented the iconic recliner in 1927.
