Overview
Salary Details: Circa £50,000 – £55,000 depending on skillset and experience.
Location: Century House Brunel Road Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate
Job Reference: cardfac/TP/1875117/31042
We’re looking for a skilled Senior Product Technologist to help us deliver safe, compliant, and high‑quality products across in our gifting area. You’ll play a key role in ensuring everything we create meets regulatory, brand, and sustainability standards, while supporting our broader commercial strategy. Working closely with buying, design, and our supplier base, you’ll lead technical processes, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement across our range.
In this role, you’ll also act as a trusted deputy to the Head of Technical Compliance and Sustainable Sourcing, helping to shape and support business priorities.
This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days per week in our Wakefield Head Office.
What You’ll Do
- Lead technical product development from concept to production, ensuring products are safe, compliant, and right first time.
- Manage risk assessments, testing, technical files, and regulatory compliance.
- Support buyers and suppliers with technical guidance, quality expectations, and clear communication.
- Review product labelling, manage supplier onboarding, and drive improvements through data and customer feedback.
- Anticipate regulatory changes and contribute to building a high‑performance culture within the QA Technical team.
What You’ll Bring
- Extensive experience in a similar technical or product compliance‑focused role
- Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills
- Solid technical expertise in materials and manufacturing
- Deep understanding of product compliance and regulatory requirements
- High attention to detail with sound, confident decision‑making
Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland. In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer. This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey.
In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
Benefits
- Pension
- 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Financial Education Tools
- Salary Advance
- Seasonal incentive schemes
- Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
- Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
- Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave
This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.
For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.
No agencies, please.
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