Lead - Footwear Material

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Lead - Footwear Material Hanoi Lead - Footwear Material In Short: The Footwear Material Lead plays a pivotal role in ensuring that sourcing strategies align with business needs for all material categories. Reporting to the Head of Footwear Material Sourcing based in HCMC, this role focuses on fostering strong supplier relationships, ensuring supplier performance, and upholding the highest standards of quality, sustainability, and ethical sourcing. In addition, the Footwear Material Lead will drive process optimization and cross-functional collaboration to support product creation and manufacturing excellence. Your Mission: - Lead and inspire a high-performing team of material sourcing specialists while nurturing people skills and cultivating a positive team environment - Build and maintain robust relationships with material suppliers, ensuring alignment with sourcing strategies, operations, quality, and sustainability goals - Partner with suppliers to drive efficiencies and optimize costs; while actively evaluating supplier performance to ensure continuous improvement - Spearhead team in cross-functional collaborations to proactively address perceived risks, pre-production and production challenges and put in place contingencies to ensure brand delivery expectations are met - Develop comprehensive reports and actionable strategic recommendations to drive material consolidation initiatives, enhance key performance indicators (KPIs) for improved efficiency, reduce lead times, and to ensure a resilient supply base that upholds quality standards and on-time delivery - Oversee rigorous material testing processes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to address material-related issues and implement corrective measures - Drive material sustainability initiatives and partner with sustainability teams to set goals, track progress, and contribute to sustainability reporting

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