Sr. Developer, Materials Sourcing

Explore the possibilities across our global house of brands.

Defined by inclusivity rather than exclusivity, Tapestry embraces the exploration of individuality and invests in helping you grow personally and professionally. Every individual in our global house has the opportunity to make an impact, learn and be part of our growing and unique story.

At Tapestry, we have the freedom to express ourselves and run with our best ideas across Coach and Kate Spade New York. We share a profound belief in both our individual and collective potential, and know that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.

Job Responsibilities:

• Track and follow up on all key milestones and special projects, including On-going, DP1, DP2, Pre-LO, LO, MW, Runway, Lookbook, etc. Manage leather substitutions for all Asia PD teams, monitor shipment status of leather for all SRs as well as LO leather shipments to SPs, and proactively track MIF updates to ensure on-time production.
• Closely coordinate and support on design trips for brand Coach and Kate Spade. with an estimated 8 trips per year, ensuring seamless logistics and timely follow-up on action items.
• Follow up color standards and Color Proxies with NY LM Teams and Field Teams and dispatch to SPs, RMS, etc.
• Oversee all leather testing activities for both Coach and Kate Spade, conducted with or without TRs, share test reports with NY LM Team, and call out all the test failures to related Field Team for improvement.
• Follow up all the FFP HB samples and testing, share the test results with NY.
• Follow up all the leather issues call out from Asia PD Teams and SPs.
• Facilitate timely approval of stock leather sharing requests from PDs and SPs to guarantee on-schedule access to sampling materials.
• Coordinator for purchasing leather from SPs upon NY’s approval if needed from any Asia PD Team.
• Proactively enhance product knowledge and foster cross-functional collaboration by presenting and discussing new leather articles with PDs, Design, SPs, RMS, MM, and other relevant teams.
• Do costing for all kinds of exotic leather for both Coach and Kate Spade.
• Drive new leather development with tanneries in China.

Skills and Requirements:

• Professional in leather with extensive knowledge and hands-on experience across leather development, milestone management, costing and leather issue resolution. Skilled at delivering leather appreciation sessions and presentations to cross-functional teams including PD, Design, SPs, RMS, and MM.
• Demonstrates strong ownership and team spirit in daily responsibilities, consistently follows up on tasks, provides timely feedback, and responds to PDs, Design, SPs, RMS, MM, and other stakeholders, ensuring no delays.
• Excels in cross-functional alignment, communication, and coordination, effectively collaborating with PD, Design, SPs, RMS, MM, and other teams to drive seamless execution.
• Maintains a highly positive, proactive, and efficient approach to daily work, consistently delivering high-quality results under tight timelines.
• Thorough understanding of end-to-end workflows, roles, and responsibilities. Have ability to mitigate potential risks and impacts.
• Detail-oriented and results-driven, with a strong focus on solutions and outcomes. Combines precision in execution with clear, effective communication.
• Committed to continuous learning and professional growth. Stays current with newmaterial innovations and annual industry updates through self-motivated development.
• Good computer skills including excel, word and power point. Skills in leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and data presentation.

Our Competencies for All Employees
Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
 
Our Competencies for All People Managers
Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.    

Tapestry is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under the consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

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