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Product Development/Fabric Specialist-Knits
URBN
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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URBN: Product Development/Fabric Specialist-Knits
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (“URBN”) is a portfolio of global consumer brands which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise and consumer products through its brands Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, BHLDN, Terrain and the Vetri Family. Urban Outfitters, Inc., is both a Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 ranked company with $3.4 Billion in revenue.
Fabric/Product Development Specialist
Overview:
Facilitates and executes Design’s vision through sourcing brand appropriate fabric and trims, delivering 3D visualization for all styles, trouble shooting material, price, and delivery issues while supporting design’s needs and business requirements. Collaborate with Brand Directors (BD) on sourcing strategy, development blueprint, and category calendar. Supervise and promote the development of team through mentoring and training.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with BD to create category calendar. Required to manage and meet calendar deadlines measured by seasonal calendar actualization.
• Attend Trend meeting to understand design intention and tone for the season. Collaborate with BD on category strategy outline based on Trend meeting.
• Analyze and suggest necessary changes to merchant’s line plan and communicate expectations to the team. Responsible to improve adoption rates over specific time period and hit approved line plan style count measured by seasonal line plan actualization.
• Create a strategy based on design’s vision, business needs and hindsight’s including outline of travel and other required resources and setting of blueprint for the Sample Room and Allocation Plan report.
• Develop and manage raw materials, research and development of all pre-style development including; pre-costing, fabrics, washes, mock-ups, drapes, tailoring bodies, trims and prints.
• Attend Sketch Review meeting and clarify important style aspects and strategize on how to deliver design vision at the required price point.
• Present to BD all pre-style and style development and to identify opportunities for corporate fabrics during Final Allocation review meeting.
• Coordinate and facilitate team to deliver aesthetically correct samples that meet design vision.
• Facilitate team to manage T&A proto tracking, physical sample management, management of fabric information, e.g. minimums, lead-times.
• Attend Style-out meeting to determine which styles will be bought. Responsible to communicate costing (including options) and minimums based on collaboration with PDTD. Responsible to calculate and manage style-out IMUs.
• Collaborate with team and BD as needed to provide final allocation to merchants once intent to buy has been communicated from merchants. Responsible to update any restyles/costing or delivery changes.
• Transition responsibility for in-work styles from the front-end to the back-end during PD handover meeting. Including IMU roll, development, status, and production concerns.
Required
Experience:
1. Five (5) or more years of experience in an apparel product development role with strong knowledge of garment construction, global raw material procurement, and manufacturing.
2. Strong knowledge base in raw materials and wash techniques.
3. Extensive experience with Tradestone or other PLM system, strong skills with Microsoft Excel a must.
4. Must be deadline drive and have a pro-active and creative approach to problem solving.
5. Must have strong communication, organization, and follow up skills.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.