Manager, Raw Materials Shoes

12 ore fa

firenze, toscana, Italia Burberry Tempo pieno 110 € Contratto
Overview

As a Raw Materials Development and Procurement specialist, you partner with Design and Sourcing to translate creative vision into material reality while managing cost and timelines. You act as a technical ambassador, ensuring feasibility, quality, and fit-for-purpose outcomes across vendors and internal teams. You drive material innovations, risk mitigation, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver on Burberry's design intent at scale. Your work supports sustainable luxury by balancing creativity with commercial impact and supplier capability.

Responsabilità
  • Partner with Design to translate creative vision into material specifications and feasibility feedback
  • Maintain strong relationships with vendors and assess their capabilities and capacity
  • Research and develop new raw material concepts and technologies aligned with briefs
  • Collaborate with mills on samples and colorways to ensure design execution
  • Define and manage the raw material development critical path with Product Development and Design
  • Ensure on-time delivery, quality, and cost targets while mitigating risks
  • Confirm material functionality, standardization, and fitness for customer, brand, and business needs
  • Collaborate with Operations for testing and production readiness, negotiating aesthetic changes as needed
  • Support production meetings and prepare proto and sample requirements for production
  • Maintain 100% PLM accuracy
Requisiti fondamentali
  • Strong vendor relationship management and ability to issue clear briefs
  • Expert technical knowledge of leather and fabric processing from development to industrialization
  • Understanding of testing parameters, quality standards, and chemicals used in finishing
  • Experience working on-site with vendors and factory operations
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Deep fashion knowledge, trends, and luxury consumer awareness
  • Proficiency with PLM and Excel
  • collaborative
  • strong negotiation
  • issue resolution
  • leather processing
  • fabric development and industrialisation
  • materials sourcing and cost management