Develop and maintain productive, effective and professional relationships with peers, superiors, factories, and others. Always represent the company in a positive and supportive manner.
Work closely with Sports Marketing to provide athletes the most technical and highest quality footwear.
Analyze Tech- Packs and revisions to provide US Innovation Design and Development teams with alternative suggestions in constructions and materials to elevate innovation offerings.
Training tasks for factories, suppliers, ect
Interpret and analyze fit, wear, material and product testing to identify areas of potential risk and provide proactive solutions to elevate product performance and quality.
Be a trusted partner of Development, Commercialization, Engineering, QA, Production, US HQ and Business Unit leaders. Provide regular updates, meeting updates, tracking reports, weekly team meetings, and other business updates as needed.
Facilitate communication & collaboration with key stakeholders including US Innovation Development, Design and in- line teams to drive decision- making and problem solving.
Provide timely updates and clear status of innovation projects&039; commercialization progress to provide in- line teams visibility to when projects are available for in- line adoption.
Provide technical support to both US and Asia Innovation Development, Design and Engineering teams to address issues as they arise related to product constructions, quality and performance.
Drive the timely creation, delivery, approval and retention of all relevant technical information (shell patterns, 2D&039;s, 3D&039;s, lasts, patterns, blue- prints, cost sheets, etc.)
Work closely with functional departments within the BU (such as costing, factory planning, fit, mold lead) and the central functions outside the BU (such as SCOE, PST, RTB, Bottoms Team and Lab).
Responsible for resolving day- to- day issues with suppliers such as pattern revisions, on- time delivery, material testing, quality and performance.
Ensure on- time completion of the highest quality product samples.
Update and maintain correct Bill of Materials (BOM) for assigned projects.
Drive Innovation development activities for assigned Innovation and Sports Marketing projects to ensure products meet the brand & athlete needs and are fully commercialized successful proof of concepts prior to in- line adoption.
