Development Engineer – Outdoor Garment (HA Noi)

Role Purpose:

Drive the garment development process from receipt of tech pack to buy order production ready for assigned Vendors/factories, with an emphasis on product sampling, costing, engineering in accordance with the development calendars.


Responsible for:

1. Brief in and execute potential new development requirements, establishing ways of working and finish/quality expectations.

2. Create and establish with current and new vendors the brands quality expectations.

3. Establish plans with current vendors for continuous improvement programs

4. Review with merchandisers and buyer’s potential vendors and approve levels of ability and plan.

5. Work with new vendors to achieve brand expectations of quality and process

6. Establish best practice with UK on how to execute products development, and feedback/communication mechanism.

7. Manage communications with vendors for specification and prototype timelines
• Ensure all tech packages/product specifications are accurately created, maintained and updated Proto in tracking system
• Expediting of prototypes to delivery OTIF

8. Drive the Development Proto meeting in factory
• Review prototypes with vendor and developer to confirm amendments required
• Update specification based on any amendments to prototype review and execute with vendor
• Handling the newly styles Cost Breakdown and CM validation for developer.
• Be proactive in applying garment construction and manufacturing processes re-engineering to maximize cost benefits and improve margin.

9. Technical support to Vendor for executing all components application tests, maintained the application tracking to get mock ups past in development stages.

10. Review and approve salesman samples
• Ensure proto comments actioned in SMS to meet the requirement
• Create Exception Report for SMS discrepancies tracking.
• Expediting of SMS to delivery OTIF


11. Handle the SMS comments to final specification and Gold Seal samples for bulk.
• Manage bulk Tech Packs creation accurately and Gold Seal samples required with Vendor towards critical path timelines.
• Create and maintain Gold Seal (Size-set samples) tracking documents
• Expediting of Gold Seal sample to delivery OTIF
• Review Gold Seal samples and ensuring final approval included grading size spec accurate for bulk.

12. Lead the PP meetings to ensure smooth transition from development to bulk production.

13. Responsible for ensuring product compliance to relevant legal standards in both safety and chemical

14. Drive key vendor self-approval initiatives, i.e. tech packages creation, Certified QC program etc., to improve development lead-times and efficiencies

Essential Skills:
1. Attention to detail is key
2. Ability to communicate internally and externally and embrace cross functional working.
3. Strong organizational skills and structured working practices are key.
4. Ability to work cross culturally and communicate the product demands
5. Good working knowledge of computer packages, eg Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Illustrator and Email
6. Ability to understand and drive change where necessary

Lives the Values:

Passion
Have a driven attitude to get products right, in terms of aesthetic, fit and consumer end use.
Have a passion for truly understanding our consumers through using our product
Never forgets the heritage and technical elements required in the product for authenticity
Has a lifestyle not that dissimilar to our consumer profile
Demonstrates their ability to make a difference with their skills
Is positive and looks for the win-win in all situations
Does what it takes to reflect the brand and product in a energetic and positive light
Is influential and easily creates motivation for topics
Promotes can do attitude

Integrity
Is naturally wired to do the right thing, understands and lives by similar values to the brand
Is always viewed as open, honest and fair in all situations
Understands Corporate Social Responsibility and the role they have in influencing it
Can express opinions well, even if they are opposing to the main view, and can outwardly support the final decision
Is active in reducing the company and their own environmental footprint
Consumer Focused
Thinks with the consumer in mind and makes opportunities to listen and understand them
Knows the importance of winning consumers trust
Makes decisions based on anticipating consumers future needs
Willingly takes responsibility for consumer problems and see it through to a resolution

Always Learning
Uses influences in the external market to establish direction and vision for range briefs
Understands their own strengths and weaknesses well, is self-aware about what they need to learn
Adaptable and open to new ideas, understands how to evaluate the merits and act on them
Learns from people’s experiences in the product
Can take time to reflect and recognize what went well and what needs changing following initiatives or situations
Consistently demonstrates continuous improvement to processes

Performance & Innovation
Is solution driven, be it creative, process, or relationship
Understands how to direct creativity towards the achievement of a successful range
Is driven by creating new standards
Not afraid to question
Express opinions and constructive criticism and offer alternative options

Experience/Job Knowledge/Education needed:

1. Product construction knowledge for outerwear, rucksacks or outdoor apparel
2. Preparation of product specifications and maintaining data to support effective product development translation at overseas vendors
3. Pattern construction and grading knowledge for relevant product categories
4. Vendor evaluation experience in terms of product capability and corporate social responsibility
5. Product engineering of both construction and patterns to enhance profit margins

Needs to be:

1. Strong team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
2. Able and willing to work under own initiative
3. Champion positive attitude and cross culture working ethics
4. Passionate about product development and company success
5. Commercially aware, but challenge the norm with regards to product development and costing structure

Measures of Performance are:

1. Developed in line with company objectives, goals, strategies and measures

- Annual Bonus
- Premium healthcare plan
- Transportation support

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