The Director of Fabric leverages consumer insights, mill strategies, and key trends to drive fabric development, innovation, costing and positioning. He/She will drive a ‘Fabric First’ mentality and strategy throughout the product-to-market process. He/She also provides direction and thought partnership to their team in NY as well as the Mill Management and Fabric Engineering teams in Asia based on cross-functional strategies. ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP:   • Leads team of Sr. Managers and Managers to liaison between Design and Fabric Engineering to drive fabric development, innovation, costing, and positioning.   • Sits on Fabric Leadership team.   • Establishes and maintains critical partnerships with Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Mill Managements, and Category Sourcing.   • Leads and inspires functional teams to remain; product obsessed, customer-focused, innovative, fast-moving and team-oriented. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:   • Analyze fabric needs across the brand.   • Manage leveraging opportunities, insure that fabrics are within the V/G/B/B pricing architecture and are being cost engineered.   • Demonstrate a sound understanding of design, merchandising, and product development priorities.   • Drive fabric process discipline throughout product-to-market calendar to ensure alignment at each key milestone from Mill Week to Fabric Alignment and Sampling.   • Encourage and promote utilization of brand fabric liabilities to Design and Merchandising seasonally.   • Accountable for managing the people strategy including, hiring, retention and compensation decisions, capability and skill development, career development and succession planning.   • Utilize insights from fabric testing tracker and risk assessment tool to level set expectations across functional areas.   • Establish Fabric development KPIs and brand discipline on number of seasonal developments. · Support pricing guidelines for line plan. KEY EXPERIENCES:   • Fabric Expertise- significant experience with fabric constructions, dye techniques, finishes and garment construction and manufacturing/sourcing processes.   • Problem Solver- can proactively solve problems and effectively manage multiple challenges.   • Team Leadership- has successfully led large teams (direct and dotted line reporting relationships).   • Collaboration- proven ability to influence and make decisions across geographies in a matrix environment where speed and cultural sensitivity is crucial.   • Personal Leadership- demonstrated executive presence, presentation, influencing, and collaboration across a leadership team.   • Change Leadership- experience leading with and without authority to influence others and drive decision-making.   • Talent Builder- proven track record of assessing, attracting, developing best-in-industry teams.