Responsibilities:

• • • Performa as the lead of sweater technical services team to provide end-to-end solutions and supports to Global Sweater Category Leader on Fit, Yarn and Quality issues.
    • Translate business strategy into directions / actions of the Technical Services team so as to provide solution based advice to drive business growth
    • Develop and maintain strategic working partnership with key customers and serve as an reliable and integrated technical consultants to elevate the business engagement for further penetration to customer business
    • Engage with respective customer technical design teams to manage the end to end process, including but not limited to getting fit approval, TOP approval etc.
    • Provide market intelligence and best practice. Actively monitor and benchmark the marketplace to incorporate latest practice to streamline and enhance our working process to achieve efficiency
    • Continuously enhance technical capabilities of the team so as to enhance the support provided to the business and customer
    • Develop and drive the implementation of category based initiative to enhance the product development and/or execution process
    • Engage in all new factory sourcing strategy, from providing inputs and advise on selecting new vendors up to potential onboarding to accelerate the transition process
    • Monitor overall development and production performance and proactively implement measures to sustain the score card result

Requirements:

• Relevant academic qualification in apparel / garment design / manufacturing
• 10 years of experience in Sweater technical design
• Experience in managing teams across regions/ countries preferred
• Sound knowledge of sweater manufacturing technology and trends
• Sound knowledge in product development, yarn, garment construction, fitting & QA
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skill 
• Proficiency in spoken and written Chinese (Mandarin / Cantonese) and English
• Able to identifying trends and transforms into insights & action plan
• Able to collaborate with different stakeholders in developing and implementing regional initiatives
• Candidate with more experience might considered as Division Manager, Technical Services