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POSTION 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
Supports the Raw material manager – Knit/woven fabric (mainly knits) and elastic development and problem solving, to help drive innovation, sustainability, delivery, quality, speed and cost.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Assist the manager in daily raw material merchandising duties, documentations and data management
- Review material detail sheets and testing documents for the seasonal fabric and elastic libraries
- Identify and mitigate potential risks during development stage
- Conduct QA approval to establish the bulk productoin standards
- Manage fabric and elastic duplicaiton
- Support there prepration of business data reports and maintain records for knit/woven fabrics and elastics
- Prepare the PVH team training materials for mills/trims suppliers in alignment with PVH GQM and GB testing protocols
- Provide the training to mills and coach them to meet PVH quality and compliance expectations
- Negotiate commerical terms e.g. price, MOQ/MCQ and lead time with suppliers
- Assist management for sourcing, sampling, costing and merchandising follow-up communciation
- Monitor and evaulate the performance of suppliers
- Coordinate with India and US team through conference calls to align work approaches
- Travel to mills for capability evaluation when required
- Perform additional ad hoc duties assigned by management
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Education & Experience:
- Post-secondary degree with minimum of 4 – 5 years of experience Material merchanding across fabrics and Soft / hard trims. Textile major is preferred.
Skills:
- Basic Woven textile knowledge is required. Additional experience on soft and hard trim management
- 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 enviroment, with competing priorities and deadlines.
- MS Office, Outlook are basic, preferable has experience on Excel & PLM/ Centric
- Excellent communication, written & verbal English skill’s
About PVH:
We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.
One of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.
PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.
