Fabric R&D Manager

Company Overview

Club Monaco is an international men’s and women’s lifestyle brand with a distinctly urban casual point of view, best defined as a play of opposites: mixing vintage with new, hard with soft and eclecticism with minimalism. Each season, Club Monaco offers customers must have fashion and key pieces that together are the foundation of a modern wardrobe. This opportunity is onsite 5 days a week in NYC.

Role and Responsibilities

• Drive seasonal fabric development and sourcing working with design and merchandising to understand business needs, target margins and calendar deadlines from development through production.
• Meet with mill partners regularly to make tailored fabric selections based on seasonal needs keeping in mind cost, lead time, and minimums. 
• Negotiate cost seasonally
• Nominate and partner with key mills
• Drive the fabric ordering process at proto, sales sample, and bulk stages. 
• Coordinate and track proto, sales sample, and bulk fabric shipments. Ensure PI goes out on time from vendors to mills at every stage
• Partner with manager to develop and track seasonal fabric and print budgets
• Meet fabric deliverables as per calendar.
• Regularly update and maintain seasonal fabric charts and communicate details/changes with cross functional teams.
• Work in conjunction with the Hong Kong office to confirm fabric detail sheets and create Material ID numbers in Flex PLM.
• Initiate lab dip, strike off and handloom requests with mills advising clear calendar deadlines.  
• Check in lab dips, strike offs and handlooms upon receipt and review with design and advise comments back to mills. 
• Maintain the fabric library, regularly making space for new headers, purging outdated headers, and maintaining core archives.
• Review fabric test reports to ensure company guidelines and standards are met and send approval comments.
• Bulk submit approvals 
• Partner with cross functional teams to achieve objectives related to cost, delivery, and quality.
• Communicate material quality standards to mills.
• Offer expertise on fabric construction, innovation, and technical aspects.
• Willingness to travel abroad seasonally as needed.

Experience and Qualifications

• Flex PLM
• Strong Technical background 
• Proficient in Excel and Microsoft Office
• Strong time management skills
• Strong communication skills
• Clear understanding of dying, printing, and finishing techniques 
• Self-starter
• Detail oriented

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in New York, Club Monaco includes a reasonable estimate of the salary or hourly rate range for this role. This accounts for the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions; including but not limited to business or organizational needs, skill sets, experience and training, licensure, and certifications.

A reasonable estimate of the current base salary range is $80,000 per year to $85,000 per year.