Job Detail
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Offerd Salary (USD) Login to view salary
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Career Level Director
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Experience N/A Years
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Gender Male/Female
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Sector Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong
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Industry Textiles/Garments/Footwear, Executive Management, Production
Job Description
Our client is a foreign-invested company, now looking for Innovation Director (Footwear, $20.000, ID16497)
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional Footwear Innovation team including product development, materials development, product testing, and data analytics.
- Partner and collaborate with the In-Line Product Development, Engineering, Corporate Innovation, US & EU Sports Marketing and the Innovation teams to bring Innovation proof of concepts to market.
- Manage Innovation projects directly with strategic Tier 1 Innovation partner factories and coordination with Tier 2 suppliers and vendors.
- Align and collaborate with Sports Marketing to provide athletes with highly technical and innovative performance products for defined races, trials and athlete specific footwear.
- Work directly with Sports Marketing to trial and identify product strengths and opportunities via athlete team testing and feedback.
- Assist the research engine of by partnering with Innovation & Engineering to build prototypes as needed.
- Elevate product creation and development towards the highest performance standards via innovation exploration.
- Proactively seek, evaluate, monitor and integrate new technologies relevant to the industry and, in conjunction with peers and stakeholders, build best practices and standards for successful launch, development, testing, and validation.
- Identify in house and external testing prototyping and analysis capabilities. Interpret test results, solving for solutions to improve the build of product.
- Build best practices for incorporating biomechanic research and test data to inform future product builds.
- Develop and manage short, mid and long-track project management calendars with partners and key stakeholders to launch innovation products across defined timelines and deliverables.
- Create and align processes, project workloads, assignments, cross-functional interactions and deadlines to meet defined deliverables.
- Provide leadership to define and streamline the Innovation to In-line process to increase end-to-end accountability.
Requirement
- Over 10 years progressive experience in the footwear industry for a global performance company.
- Expert in advanced concepts, product testing, product development.
- Solid experience in building product specifications, material applications for product use and product constructions.
- Wide knowledge of footwear construction types, materials, testing protocols and the ability to interpret test results.
- Experience in digital creation, footwear speed business models and sustainability.
- Experience managing the facets of product costing including factory labor, overhead and profit to ensure that product is delivered at target costs.
- 8+ years of prior management experience.
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