Senior, Apparel Material & Trim Developer, Local Creation GC

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

Sr. Material and Trim Developer is key to Innovation and Product Excellence. We have built a new, unified Material Supply Chain organization which will transform our material capabilities, teams, and processes to accelerate our vision to serve every athlete*.

As a Senior Materials developer, on the Material development team, you will drive to manage materials development process with assigned material vendors. Resonsible for the product creation process from initial concept through to commercialization and production for assigned models to lead to on time delivery and development according to critical dates, product specification, sustainability, performance and profitability goals.

• Drive and execute materials excellence with vendors from buy ready through production
• Production Management
• Pricing Execution
• Facilitate resolution on exceptions.
• Act a primary resource for vendor communication, performance evaluation, management and issue resolution
• Solve problem through research and analyze results
• Establish and maintain relationships with vendors. Communicate and provide feedback to vendors regarding requests related to innovation, costing, on-time delivery, quality and sustainability. 
• Strong partnerships with cross functional team members to implement corrective actions as needed.
• Responsible for maintaining all production tools, vendor source base tools and all pertinent material leadtime, price information in an accurate and timely manner.
• Additional project and task assignment

Detail-oriented and results-driven, you thrive in a cross-functional environment. You are comfortable engaging with external manufacturing vendors and internal teams, tailoring your messages accordingly. As a Senior, you will leverage your business and technical skillsets to influence new ways of working across a large organization. This role is perfect for a team-player with drive, curiosity, and strong communication skills.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON

• With your teammates, you will support key initiatives that support a resilient material ecosystem and evolve operations to support key business goals. You’ll lead projects and collaborate with various teams to increase efficiency and effectiveness through process, tools, and communication. You will leverage an analytical mindset towards data systems, analytics, and quality data management.

• Along with your focused suppliers, you will manage and drive the material sample and production lead time to meet Rapid Response request.  You will engage directly with vendors, ensuring they deliver sample and production on time, at the right cost and quality, resolving issues along the way. As a materials operation expert, you will deliver vendor to delivery correct production to meet Nike’s  requirements. You will also partner with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure delivering quality product to the consumer with most efficiency leadtime.

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH

This role is based in Shanghai and reports into a Material and Trim development Manager, MM.  This role will integrates and communicates moderately complex information, sometimes to audiences who are not familiar with the subject matter. Acts as resource to teammates. Completes work independently with review at critical points; requires guildence only on complex issues.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years relevant material development or manufacturing experience
• Specific knowledge and experience in footwear or apparel materials manufacturing (textiles, leather, synthetic leather, components) is preferred. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Project and time management skills; commitment to delivering results, on time
• Ability to network across a complex, matrixed environment, and utilize internal and external resources
• Influencing skills & ability to collaborate and drive change with various external partners and cross-functional internal teams
• Comfortable engaging with both external partners and internal stakeholders and building strong partnerships
• Ability to maintain focus through ambiguity and change
• Experience working in data systems
• Ability to travel