Sampling can mean making trial versions of a garment before production or offering customers small quantities of a beauty product to try.
In clothing development, a sample gives a team something it can fit, assess and change while the design is still being developed. A developer might check how a sleeve moves at a fitting and ask for the pattern to be adjusted before production. In beauty marketing, the same word can describe handing out a small amount of a finished product for a customer to try. The surrounding duties show which sense a vacancy uses.
In job listings
Burberry’s London product developer would take garments from design launch through sampling, fittings and approval. The house also asked the developer to work with partners to reduce unnecessary sampling and rework. La Mer used the same word differently in its London brand marketing manager vacancy, which included sampling among the activities intended to encourage new customers to try its products. Search local jobs for “product development”.
