Responsibilities:
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- 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
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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