Manager, Raw Materials Shoes

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Manager, Raw Materials Shoes
Working in partnership with Design and Sourcing to manage the raw materials development and procurement according to the design aesthetics guidelines and budget collection.

Acting as an ambassador for Burberry, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation and collaboration and operate as true technical specialists with internal teams and vendors.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Building and maintaining a close working partnership with Design. Acting as the technical partner for design, attending raw material meetings, providing feedback on technical feasibility, brainstorming ideas and solutions to ensure the design vision is translated into product
- Responsible for building and maintaining effective working relationships with vendors, developing a strong working knowledge of vendor capability and availability to meet demands
- Research and development of new raw material concepts and technologies according to brief:
- Samples
- Colourways
- Collaboration with mills and follow up on new designs/materials to ensure correct execution




- In conjunction with the Product Development and Design teams, agree and implement the raw material development critical path. Ensuring deadlines are adhered to and follow up on all development issues to resolve and drive to completion. Identifying, calling out and making recommendations to mitigate any risks/challenges identified at all stages.
- Responsible for ordering and delivering raw materials on time, to the quality standard, and within cost price range, to achieve target margin
- Responsible for ensuring functionality (including consistency and standardisation) and ensuring products that are developed are fit for purpose for the customer, brand and business. This includes ongoing risk assessment during the development process and proactivity in taking actions as a result
- Responsible for collaborating with Operations teams while developing the collections for product testing to relevant standards, levera

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