Material Manager - Footwear

EXEMPT/NON-EXEMPT: EXEMPT
DEPARTMENT: Development/Material Operations
REPORTS TO: Eric Zhang; Sr. Manger Regional FW Material Operations
FUNCTIONAL REPORTS TO: Senior Director Material Operations Footwear
LOCATION: Vietnam

Summary
The Material Manager - Footwear Vietnam is a fast-paced, highly interactive position where you will partner closely with the footwear material operations team in the HQ USA offices and China/HK offices. In this role, you are the main conduit to footwear material development and sourcing in Vietnam, ensuring material supplier management, material development and material procurement are in sync with our global objectives.

This role is responsible for building and supporting the UA operational infrastructure and world class footwear material supply chain. As Material Manager – Footwear Vietnam you will help build material operations and material supply chain in the Asia region.

Your responsibilities will include selecting and developing with best in class material supply partners and creating/evolving communication channels between Under Armour and and our material and product supply partners. You are insuring proper implementation of our Centric PLM material and supplier data and management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Collaborate with the material operations team in the development of future footwear materials and processes, new applications and evolving material related innovation.
• Responsible for material supplier on-boarding, scorecards, quality assurance, material consolidation and cost negotiation in the Vietnam region.
• Participate in quarterly business reviews with suppliers to better influence UA Asia sourcing and materials strategy.
• Meet with HQ material operations and material development teams, facilitate the distribution of seasonal material briefs to appropriate material supply partners.
• Key source of material support for HQ development and design teams travel to Vietnam, insuring our teams continue following material process and best practice when in Asia
• Collaborate with UA Asia sourcing team, material suppliers and factories to ensure all new materials are properly allocated and tested to meet end use, costing, logistic, and lead time requirements.
• Communicate core and seasonal material libraries (toolkits) and global library objectives to material supply partners and UA Asia region development, engineering and commercialization teams.
• Communicate material quality requirements by material type to material supply partners and UA Asia region development, engineering and commercialization teams.
• Input and maintain supply partner and material information in the Centric PLM material data library and work closely with development, supply partners and factories to ensure data integrity for style material specification and all other critical product documentation.
• Partner with quality to understand, define and evolve physical property testing methods and requirements.
• Drive implementation of material supply chain initiatives, including lean and sustainability.
• Travel to various industry events to gain insight into new developments to keep the UA team informed on the latest innovations in the market

Additional Tasks
• Manage data for footwear operations to ensure on-time footwear samples delivery.
• Prioritize work based on calendars and seasonal product development.
• Manage global material libraries in the Vietnam Asia region.
• Summarize regional meetings and communicate action items.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external partners.
• Assist with other tasks as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Consistently works toward producing results at the functional team level
o Accountable for producing to functional area timelines
o Responsible for their own execution
o Sets stretch personal goals and achieves them
o Inspires confidence that they will deliver. Done!Done!Done!
o Goes the extra mile to ensure the functional team’s success
o Takes direction and makes a project their own

• Lives and inspires the Under Armour Culture throughout the Company
o Embraces the Company values in their everyday interactions
o Inspires the values in their peers
o Commits time and energy to the success of the Company
o Supports professional and individual development of team
o A good team player

• Assists in executing on a strategic plan that creates a unique advantage for UA in the marketplace
o Familiar with more complex concepts and possesses advanced skills and functional understanding of the subject matter and technical requirements of the relevant functional area
o Improves performance by gaining knowledge and experience of associated areas through job contacts and training
o Suggests ideas that focus on improving costs and process efficiency

• Has Manager/Director’s as well as their team’s trust
o Delivers what is promised
o Contributes to the function’s goals through individual and/or team effort
o Impacts functional team by providing support
o Understands how his/her role fits into the functional team’s goals

• Shows intellectual curiosity in every task they are asked to perform
o Seeks to not only perform the task but understand the purpose of the task
o Demonstrates effort to understand processes outside their immediate area
o Connects proactively to stakeholders for thorough systems thinking of challenges
o Discover and fearlessly question areas of improvement and opportunity
o Performs task well with an attention to detail
o Understands and appreciates the value their task adds to goal achievement

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to deal with vendors from a variety of countries and cultures, specifically Asia
• Strong process and organization skills
• Creative and proactive mindset
• An understanding of dealing with cultural differences and cultural barriers, to secure the best possible outcomes for UA Footwear, which include costing, negotiations, trust, and managing strong intra-vendor or vendor-to-factory relationships
• Basic skills understanding consumer goods as well as calculating interest, percentages, area, circumference, volume, etc.
• The ability to define problems, collect data and draw rational conclusions as well as recommend solutions.

Education and/or Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree and experience with material management, material sourcing, textiles, or supply Chain management
• Regional language capabilities
• Experience in textile and synthetic leather, leather, foams and plastics manufacturing, material development, or similar fields with an emphasis on material testing, sourcing, merchandising
• Experience working with Illustrator, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Keynote, etc.
• Knowledge of PLM systems.

- Competitive salary; rewarding initiative and creativity
- Training opportunities

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