Role Description

The Opportunity:

This is a rare opportunity to be part of an energetic enterprise that is passionate about providing top-quality safety products to diverse industries. The company’s commitment to excellence is reflected in their core values and they are about to make a statement in workwear apparel. We are looking for a dynamic, creative, innovative and experienced Project Team Leader to join their team, who in addition to Design, the successful applicant will possess a technical mindset, along with off-shore production experience.

Key Duties:

As the Project Team Leader for workwear apparel, you will play a pivotal role in managing, optimizing and delivering product strategy, and to the launch of a signature apparel range to market in tandem with other key stakeholders. Your responsibilities will include:

Product Strategy and Process Planning:

• Implement and deliver product strategies in collaboration with the internal team and suppliers.
• Research key market trends and demands to ensure products meet the market’s requirements once they’re launched.
• Bring valuable process and procedure guidance to the company’s team, from concept to production design, procurement coordination, forecasting, managing PO document packs, supplier negotiations, sample/fit assessments, standards compliance and strategy alignment.
• Ensure technological monitoring in order to fuel the perpetual quest for innovation and continuous improvement of products.

Product information management:

• Manage the fit sessions, spec and pattern techpack creation process with the technical team and ensure key stakeholders are involved in delivering on requirements.
• Ensure that concise and accurate product information is being shared with suppliers to gain pricing and establish supplier relationships.
• Maintain certifications of products, fabrics, accessories, technical documentation and manufacturing techniques up to date.

Supplier relations:

• Deal with current suppliers to determine if they’re a good fit for the product range based on, pricing, quality control, fabric offerings, management personnel, factory capacity, ethics etc.
• Establish new relationships with new innovative suppliers that will be suitable to produce the range of products required.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive database of industry suppliers, including known and researched potential suppliers.
• Work with current purchasing manager to arrange orders and manage stock requirements with suppliers.