Design Your Future at PVH

POSITION SUMMARY:

Individual will drive newness and innovation in brand fabric. Individual must have extensive R&D and product development background bringing forth new ideas keeping within brand aesthetic and cost structure. Individual will source seasonal design request with appropriate vendors and offer creative solutions if the request is outside of brands sourcing and pricing strategy. Individual will be strategic and proactive in sourcing fabrics keeping in mind current company initiatives such as speed 360 model, sustainability/traceability initiatives, and launch corporate data initiatives.

Support the Manager, Raw Materials –Fabric and trims’ developments, to help drive innovation, sustainability, delivery, quality, speed and cost.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES
 

• Assist the manager in daily fabric and trims’ development as per NY design requirements including the management of sample ordering, costing, testing and risk.

• Review and maintain material detail sheets, testing reports and certification

• Negotiate the price and lead time with suppliers

• Provide technical input as needed from development to production, identify potential issues and recommend solutions

• Identify potential savings opportunities and support cost savings initiatives

• Work closely with testing team with all materials’ testing reports to ensure quality compliance

• Support in preparing business data reports and maintain reports pertaining to materials

• Prepare PVH training materials for suppliers in support of the PVH GQM

• Build up the relationship with suppliers

• Perform other ad hoc duties as assigned by manager

DECISION MAKING
 

• Prepare material swatches & co-ordinates raw material to send out to New York office counterpart.

• Maintain material library.

RESOURCEFULNESS/CREATIVITY
 

• Willing to learn new knowledge and adapt to new responsibilities.

ENVIRONMENT:
 

• Ability to work with multi-cultural, multi-lingual, counter-parts and Being open to changes.

CORE VALUE
 

• Embrace PVH's core values: Individuality, Partnership, Passion, Integrity, and Accountability.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
 

Education & Experience:
 

• Post-secondary degree with minimum of 4-5 years of experience in material merchandising across fabrics and soft / hard trims. Textile major is preferred.

Skills:
 

• Technical knowledge of knit fabric and functional elastics is a must. Additional experience on woven fabrics and hard trims is an advantage

• Good judgment & decision-making skills (with an ability to get to root cause analysis).

• Must be detailed oriented, resourceful, have excellent follow-up skills; learning and using all appropriate contacts to gather information & drive solutions.

• Must be flexible and able to function in a fast-paced environment, with competing priorities and deadlines.

• MS Office, Outlook are basic, preferable has experience on Excel & PLM/ Centric

• Excellent communication, written & verbal English skills.