Manager, Raw Materials

2 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada Joe Fresh Full time

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.

**Location**:
2 Fraser Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1Y6

Fresh Style. Fresh Careers. Founded in 2006, Joe Fresh is a leading source for modern style and accessible design, offering comprehensive lifestyle collections for men, women and children. Joe Fresh delivers quality and compelling value in categories spanning apparel, accessories, footwear and Joe Fresh Beauty® cosmetics. Joe Fresh collections are polished and sophisticated, with a focus on essential designs that appeal to a broad range of style-savvy consumers

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct - it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Why is this role important?

Position: Manager - Raw Materials

Reporting: Director - Sourcing

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide recommendations and guidance to design and cross functional partners for leveraging Fabric qualities across the divisions.
- Analyze category specific fabric needs and action into developments that are within cost and aesthetic parameters.
- Partner with product development and design to ensure that fabrics are within pricing architecture & required quality parameters.
- Negotiate costs, minimums, lead-times, purchasing terms with the suppliers.
- Identify fabrics that need to be cost engineered and communicate with the mills.
- Identify & maintain fabric mills that meet category specific sourcing strategy.
- Support fabric process discipline throughout product-to-market calendar to ensure alignment at each key milestone.
- Track fabric development KPIs on number of seasonal developments.
- Track fabric testing report and risk assessment tool to level set expectations across functional areas.
- Maintain open and frequent communication with design, product development, QA, Color and production on all issues related to material costing, quality, delivery, and supplier performance issues
- Create and maintain seasonal materials libraries in PLM /3D CLO and physical libraries.
- Managing physical library for approved qualities and proper organization and filing of all approved and development fabrics.
- Provide assistance to design team in finding the appropriate quality in the library
- Assist and ensure development is flowing within calendar timelines

Qualification & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Textile with 6-8 years’ experience in fabric development and Sourcing
- Strong technical understanding of woven & knit fabrics
- Ability to identify different fabric types, dyeing & printing processes to lead the costing discussion with mills
- Experienced in working with different fabric mills in Asia
- Self-starter, flexible thinker, and outstanding communicator, comfortable working cross functionally
- Sharp negotiator
- Ability to multi-task, attention to detail, excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office

How You’ll Succeed:
At Joe Fresh, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

Employment Type:
Full time

Type of Role:
Regular

Joe Fresh recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.



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