Raw Material Technician, Fabrics & Trims

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Supports the Raw Material Manager - Knit/woven fabrics and Soft/ Hard trim developments, 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 support.
  
• Maintain fabric detail sheets and testing documents for the seasonal fabric libraries.
  
• Maintain Technical specification sheets for Soft and Hard trims.
  
• Manage and monitor/ Follow up on sales sampling across fabric Knit/woven fabric, soft / Hard trims, including tracking and delivery, issue resolution and invoices settlement.
  
• Assist senior management, and oversee the fields of raw material administration
  
• Support in preparing business data reports, maintain reports pertaining to Knit/Woven fabrics and Soft / Hard trims.
  
• Prepare the PVH team training materials for mills/trims suppliers in support of the PVH GQM & FEF protocols.
  
• Provide routine merchandising duties and assist in other ad hoc duties
  
• Assist management for Sourcing, Sampling, Costing, Merchandising follow up related communication.
  
• Communicate and prepare meetings with suppliers.
  
• Support department daily operation/equipment maintain etc.
  
• Perform other duties as assigned by Management
  

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL CONTACTS

Internal Contacts: Raw Material team members and Sourcing.

External Contacts: Raw material L1 & L2 Suppliers.

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 Material merchandising 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 environment, with competing priorities and deadlines.

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

· Excellent communication, written & verbal English skills