Responsibilities:
- Oversees both knits and woven fabrics across all brands, products and gender.
- Lead the team on strategic research and material management as well as material development and execution.
- Directly manages 5 subordinates (Senior Managers and Directors level)
- Identify key mills to secure best in class fabric sourcing
- Build and reinforce mill Matrix and implementation of mill score card
- Manage the aggregation and placement of key materials and continuously develop reiteration to keep them relevant
- Lead the team to develop interesting and relevant fabrications with sustainability at center
- Ensure the company's fabrications are aligned with it's sense of Aesthetics
- Execute brand needs with calendar adherence, to arrive to showroom sample ordering stage and be 100% bulk actionable
- Strategic planning in sync with Category Management
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in textiles or related field
- 10+ years of experience in textile industry
- 8+ years of management experienced preferred
- Excellent technical knowledge of all fabrications, constructions and yarns (both knits and woven fabrics)
- A specialist in fiber, yarn and fabric
- Experience of leading change management initiatives and working in ambiguity
- A team player, strong interpersonal, collaboration and team working skills with proven ability to coach and build high performing teams
