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About the Role
Leverage consumer insights, mill strategies, and key trends to drive fabric development, innovation, costing, and positioning. Foster a 'Fabric First' mentality and strategy throughout the product-to-market process. Provide direction and thought partnership to internal Gap Inc teams in North America, and to Mill Management and Fabric Engineering teams in Asia.
Responsibilities
- Analyze fabric needs across the company.
- Communicate recommendations for leveraging qualities across divisions, considering and tracking all components of the fabric and wash resource library.
- Track Fabric development KPIs, seasonal developments, and fabric testing reporting.
- Partner with Product Development and Merchandising to ensure fabrics are within the V/G/B/B pricing architecture.
- Identify fabrics that need cost engineering and communicate with the Mill management team.
- Drive fabric process discipline throughout the product-to-market calendar.
- Build cross-functional partnerships and consensus.
- Influence strategy for your division and team.
Requirements
- Strong experience with fabric constructions, dye techniques, finishes, and garment construction and manufacturing/sourcing processes.
- Proven ability to influence and make decisions across geographies in a matrix environment where speed and cultural sensitivity is crucial.
- Ability to assess relatively complex situations and analyze data to make judgments and recommend solutions.
- Sound knowledge of R&D concepts and procedures.
- Basic understanding of procedures across cross-functional teams within design, production, tech design, merchandising, quality assurance, sustainability, and sourcing.