Essential Function
The Sr. Materials Innovation Specialist will be responsible for finding and developing new and innovative fabrics and materials that will drive Klim’s relentless pursuit of exceeding customers’ expectations. Will be responsible for testing these fabrics and materials both in a lab and in the field. Will need to develop deep relationships with our current fabric and material suppliers which will allow us to stay on the leading edge of their new developments. Will also need to continually seek out new suppliers that will drive fabric and material innovation. Will help with the strategic direction of long-term fabric and material development planning and implementation. Will be responsible for maintaining an organized material library.

The Sr. Materials Innovation Specialist will be involved with the planning, coordination, evaluation, and control of the manufacturing processes regarding fabric and materials. Will ensures that fabrics and materials are produced at the correct time, cost, and quality.

Duties and responsibilities

• Maintain timeline adherence for fabric and material deliverables.
• Continually striving to create and implement appropriate test methods that can be verifiable and reliable at the factory.
• Build on supplier resources to control cost and make sure we are at the front of their list when new products are available.
• Work with Design and Purchasing to develop processes for tracking and reporting on time production, quality, vendor compliance and costing.
• Initiate and cultivate domestic and global raw material vendor relationships to improve turnaround, quality and cost.
• Establish and maintain Work in Process (WIP) tracking report for fabrics and materials.
• Coordinate with Logistics regarding transit costs of raw materials.
• Constantly looking for ways to make the product better by the quality inputs and also finding suitable cost advantage alternatives to help combat the increasing costs without sacrificing quality.
• Establish relationships that keep Klim on the leading edge of materials innovation by identifying future technologies and trends and driving their implementation.
• Systematically organize and maintain the material library for future development and current production.
• Maintain and update the material library page in Centric to accurately reflect the available fabrics and materials.
• Assist the sourcing department with greige forecast each season.
• Ability to anticipate problems, offer solutions, and address issues with current and future fabrics and materials.
• Communicates on an ongoing basis with internal team, contractors, sourcing team, and material suppliers during the entire fabric and material development process through bulk production.
• Creates the appropriate lab test procedures and processes.
• Accomplishes all tasks as appropriately assigned or requested.

Qualifications

• Interpret and/or discuss information with others, which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people; regularly provide advice and recommend actions involving rather complex issues.
• The ability to resolve problems within established practices.
• Provides occasional guidance, some of which is technical.

• Continually monitoring and ensuring economies of scale.

Education/Experience.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in related field. Strong computer skills with Excel, Word and PLM software. Strong ability to adhere to deadlines. Delivers accurate quality data on-time and complete. Advanced knowledge of fabric and trims requested. Excellent written and oral communication. Advanced product knowledge and knowledge of global markets and competitors.

Working conditions
Responsibilities sometimes require working evenings and weekends, sometimes with little advanced notice.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical requirements
While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds

Job Type: Full-time

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