From leather goods product development manager to leather goods designer
15 of the 18 essential skills of a leather goods designer are already essential for a leather goods product development manager — about 83% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 15
- skills carry over
- 3
- would be new
- 83%
- of the target job covered
- 18
- essential skills of a leather goods designer
What a leather goods designer does
Leather goods designers are in charge of the creative process of leather goods. They perform fashion trends analysis, accompany market researches and forecast needs, plan and develop collections, create concepts and build the collection lines. They additionally conduct the sampling, create prototypes or samples for presentation and promote concepts and collections. During the collection development, they define the mood and the concept board, the colour palettes, the materials and produce drawings and sketches. Leather goods designers identify the range of materials and components and define the design specifications. They collaborate with the technical team.
What carries over
15 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply development process to footwear design
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- develop leather goods collection
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear creation process
- implement footwear marketing plan
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- leather goods components
- leather goods manufacturing processes
- leather goods materials
- leather goods quality
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
What would be new
3 skillsEssential for a leather goods designer and not for a leather goods product development manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from leather goods product development manager
2 roles- leather goods product developer19 skills in common
- footwear product development manager16 skills in common
← leather goods product development managerleather goods designer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a leather goods designer?
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