Fabric Manager

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New York, United States Basic Resources, Inc. Full time

The Fabric Manager is responsible for facilitating and executing the brand’s vision by sourcing fabrics and trims within the seasonal calendar. The manager is also responsible for establishing and maintaining core fabric and trim standard library. The fabric manager will maintain vendor relationship and research according to supplier capabilities and its market. All fabric and trim must be aligned with sourcing allocation and cost strategy.


Responsibilities:

  • Assess Basic Resources Intimates fabric vendor fabric capabilities and potential to understand its core competencies and its core regional supply base. Understanding of materials and trims for intimates category and seamless.
  • Attend key milestone meetings with Design, Sales, Sourcing, Production, and Marketing to gain insight for the upcoming seasonal development and direction.
  • Keep the Sourcing Director/Business leads abreast of development status and gain support in establishing target costing on fabrics, components, and trims.
  • Act as liaison between Design(pd), Sales, Sourcing, Merchandising and vendors to technically guide during development to achieve desired fabric performance.
  • Communicate and execute new development/counter with existing vendor base potential suppliers to achieve technical (fit and or performance) needs and cost-viable options for current and future seasons.
  • Manage development deadlines outlined by corporate calendar and new initiatives.
  • Provide preliminary (pre)costing feedback to Sourcing and before proceeding with actual development.
  • Re-group & collaborate with Design & Sales in cost engineering fabric, as necessary, to meet target costs.
  • Troubleshoot potential issues with fabrics and trims during the development stage and identify solutions for bulk production.
  • Responsible for RMS (Raw Material Sheet) with fabric performance testing and results
  • Coordinate with quality testing manager to identify acceptable parameters on test results.
  • Maintain an ongoing development chart to provide the sourcing team with project status/progress and highlight priorities for the season.
  • Maintain a physical Fabric & Trim library.
  • Support the Sustainability effort across all brands to enable and offer yarn and fabric requirements needed for technical and marketing callouts.
  • Supports the Sourcing Director with special projects as needed.


Qualifications:

  • 10+ years textile R&D background and a complete understanding of the production life cycle, must have experience in women's apparel categories
  • Strong costing background
  • Technical understanding and knowledge of garment construction, raw material, and manufacturing process
  • Flexible to work on-site 2-3 days a week
  • Strong in Excel
  • PLM & SAP-related experience a plus
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Priority planning and organizational skills
  • High sense of urgency and ability to multi-task
  • Open and adaptable to changing business demands
  • Solution-oriented and driven by positive results
  • Strong negotiating skills


The disclosed salary range is commensurate with experience and does not reflect the total compensation package. Our associates have access to other valuable benefits that our Human Resources team is happy to share with candidates during the interview process.


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