Leather Technician

The Footwear Leather Technician provides technical input and support to the teams and factories. The leather Technician can be involved in all stages of leather development and leather manufacture. They have a good understanding to supply technical support to team, troubleshooting where needed, finding solutions and improving efficiencies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Development of leather articles according to the company direction.
• Select new article and trends to present to design team.
• Check, evaluate and correct leather articles to ensure quality and production stability.
• Support sourcing to develop and maintain a portfolio for regional vendors with curated vendor/market strength, capabilities, and opportunities
• Leather samples, production confirmation approval
• Color review and management for samples and production.
• Alignment initiatives to ensure quality consistency between factory and countries.
• Align with regional sourcing strategies and ensure product and material expertise and capabilities are also in alignment.
• Attend leather and materials shows as appropriate to gain perspective on newness, innovation, sustainability, and trend as it applies to the brand.
• Ensure product key milestone and calendar dates are met.
• Support sample leather and materials development with sourcing, determining proper hand feel, finishing and construction.
• Identify and evaluate any potential Risk and document all findings and recommendations in a detailed Risk Assessment report.
• Document and update supplier pool and material library information to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, including composition, properties, uses and availability.
• Evaluate suppliers' performance (quality/service and delivery), review the performance and reliability for each supplier
• Provide support and guidance to the shoe finishing, to ensure that the shoe finishing is done properly and meets the desired quality standard.

Required Skills:

• Above 5 years’ experience in materials leather sourcing for export-oriented company.
• Good experience with local leather sourcing market.
• Strong business sense and analytical skills.
• IT-skills e-mail, MS Office, Excel
• Reporting and Excel Skills knowledge are required
• Fluent English oral and written

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Strong various leather knowledge.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor’s degree