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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

We’ll never launch a product unless we consider it perfect. Our product development teams create every shirt, every shoe and every piece of equipment for thousands of athletes and fashion lovers as if it was one of a kind. And it truly is, as they weave their passion into every single product. But translating designs, drawings and renderings into real products requires a lot of decision making.

As Assistant Manager Digital Technologies APP you are a key contributor digital technologies team by assisting and supporting the process for the creation of virtual prototypes based on development data for apparel products. You will partner with IT and business partners to define a robust product backlog, manage capability expansion increments and support the development of best practice definitions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development of virtual product creation and library workflows by working together with business and IT teams
• Represent the business views for virtual product creation, fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the backlog
• Support the creation of training documentation for virtual product creation
• Act as main connection between business and IT teams to ensure understanding of processes involved in virtual product creation
• Assist in the refinement of virtual product creation backlog itmes to ensure that the product team is delivering the right enhancements to support business needs
• Work together with business teams to organise and manage the 3D and 2D product data for an efficient visualisation workflow
• Keep track of work progress and virtual product creation workflow status for key milestones and report it to major stakeholders involved
• Check data quality all along the virtual creation process and support all required steps for data improvements
• Take over the responsibility for key steps within the visualization process workflow development, and ensure key business interests of the digital strategy are pursued
• Support the visualization process by managing important process steps such as prepare 3D data, refine 3D data for visualization, refine 2D graphics data, etc.
• Help to create and enable the required data libraries for digital materials that are needed for a lean process of virtual product creation
• Support the optimization of workflow efficiency by a close teamwork with the scope managers for sake of speed and quality in virtual product creation

Key Relationships:

• Product Development
• Global Sourcing
• IT
• Digital Creation
• T1 / T2
• Design
• Marketing

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 2D, 3D Software Application experience (Gerber, CLO3D etc)
• Motivation to learn about new processes within a digital product creation process
• Solutions-oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset
• Computer literacy
• Ability to use graphics applications or desktop publishing (Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator etc)
• Ability to work with people across different functions of an organization.
• Fluent in English, second language an advantage

• Ability to work with MS Office.
• Solution-oriented mindset.

• Motivation to learn about new prototyping processes within an industrial product creation process

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Technical college/fashion school/university degree in pattern making / grading, “Meisterbrief” or equivalent education
• First relevant practical experience through internships or work experience is an advantage