In Short:
This role's mission is to bridge the gap between global sourcing and product development, ensuring that sourcing is a strategic enabler from the outset. By fostering strong partnerships across Innovation, Creation, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sustainability teams, you'll drive a learning culture that enhances quality and on-time delivery. Ultimately, your success hinges on delivering a sourcing roadmap that enables the flawless execution of our product portfolio, balancing cost, quality, and delivery objectives.
About the Team:
You will be part of the Product Organization: the innovation engine responsible for designing, developing, and sourcing innovative products.
Your Mission:
- Strategic Alignment: Drive close collaboration between the sourcing organization (primarily based in Vietnam) and the wider product organization (based in Switzerland).
- Integrate Sourcing Considerations: Ensure sourcing requirements are strategically embedded into the product roadmap, enabling all projects to be fully 'sourcing ready' by the time of product freeze.
- Stakeholder Management: Act as a strategic partner across cross-functional teams including Innovation, Creation, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sustainability.
- Learning Culture: Embed a ‘learning culture & process’ within our product development process to structurally enhance quality and on-time delivery.
- Portfolio Execution: Deliver a sourcing roadmap that supports the flawless execution of the product portfolio, balancing cost, quality, and delivery objectives.
Your Story:
- 8+ years of progressive experience in strategic footwear sourcing; production operations experience in apparel and accessories is a plus.
- Product Development Acumen: Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle, from concept to commercialization, with a specific emphasis on the points of integration for sourcing, plus experience across upstream product strategy, innovation, product creation, and quality management.
- Strong ability to ‘connect the dots’ across functions, navigate ambiguity, and adapt to changing priorities.
- Strong leadership skills to manage a portfolio of cross-functional projects.
- Strategic Thinking & Execution: Proven ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans and drive their successful execution within a complex organizational structure.
- Cross-cultural Collaboration: Experience working in a global organization, demonstrated success in fostering effective collaboration between geographically dispersed teams (e.g., Europe and Asia).
- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional ability to build and maintain strong relationships with diverse internal stakeholders at all levels, influencing outcomes and driving consensus.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset: Experience in implementing continuous improvement methodologies and fostering a learning-oriented environment.
- Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical capabilities to evaluate complex trade-offs (cost, quality, delivery) and develop effective solutions; excellent ability to synthesize, structure, and simplify complex problems.
- Excellent Communication Skills: Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to various audiences; engaging, influencing, and aligning with senior leaders.
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