Our Client a leading high street Retailer has an opportunity for an experienced Womenswear Garment Technologist to cover a 9-12 month maternity leave. Expected start date April 2020 until January 2021
The role:
• Deliver the product innovation strategy driving commercial customer focussed benefit and in line with Design and Innovation Brief priorities
• Keep abreast of the latest technology trends in materials, fabric, fibre construction techniques etc. and feed these into the product development process
• Manage adherence to product safety, compliance and ethical standards in line with legislation and corporate policy · Deliver clear specifications on Design Tech packs to include fit, fabric quality, made well standards, construction & components.
• Approve fits and contract seals (where relevant) ensuring construction and consistency is achieved in line with standards
• Working with the Fit Development Studio and Design to ensure that relevant blocks and patterns are in place
• Carry out ongoing cost engineering at development stage to ensure all products are optimised commercially whilst still meeting the Client’s quality, fit and aesthetic standards
• Manage fabric / raw material approval requirements and ensure quality and innovation is embedded into the fabric / raw material strategy
• Accountability for signing off the Bill of Materials and ensuring that all relevant product technical documentation (legal, testing, safety) is present on system at contract seal
• Manage the delivery of business sustainability requirements into the department and buying unit
alongside buying team colleagues and the Sourcing offices
• Benchmark the Client’s product against high street competitors ensuring a market leading position
and feeding into the Product development strategy
• Monitor the voice of the Client’s customer around Quality and Fit and build into ongoing product
development strategy
• Maintain integrity of product data within the department on Client’s systems, working with sourcing offices to ensure suppliers are compliant in providing complete and accurate information as required to enable reporting
• Act as a business ambassador internally and externally protecting all sustainability, safety, ethical and environmental requirements.
• In the event of Quality failure in the UK manage and co-ordinate with UK Offices, Supply Base and Sourcing Office colleagues to resolve
• Manage knowledge to share and product / fit training of store colleagues to enable more informed selling and service
Candidate Requirements:
• Expert in the field of technology including manufacturing of fabric / raw materials
• Excellent communication skills within Technical Function, Design and Buying, Supply Base and Global Sourcing Offices
• Able to manage Blue Sky thinking for newness and project delivery of innovation
• Multi tasked orientated working to tight deadlines while maintaining entrepreneurialism
• Capable of interpreting customer data (CIU, Bizarre Voice, QPI’s, Star ratings online) to shape future product development strategy
• Experience of briefing and specifying direct design sourced product, working with Buying
and Design teams to create Tech Packs
• Ability to manage departmental data and leverage the Client’s systems to enable strategic reporting
• Ability to work across multiple sourcing models
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