Senior Manager Textile Technology
Brand: Victoria's Secret
Location: New York, NY, US
Location Type: Hybrid
Job Area: Design
Employment type: Full-time
Job ID: 04AR6
Your Role
The Sr. Manager of Textile Technology ensures all prints, patterns, graphics, and colors meet design intent and enhance our products in a commercially viable and cost effective way. The Sr. Manager partners with Print/Graphic Designers, Product Designers, Merchants, regional offices, printers, and vendors to manage workload, identify and overcome obstacles, and make sure deadlines are met.
This role understands strategic business needs and stays up-to-date on all textile technology to ensure our business is utilizing best-in-class services. Leads, coaches, and develops team of textile technologists.
Why You Belong Here
At Victoria’s Secret, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.
Your Impact
· Manage team of print and graphics technologists; coach, develop and ensure a high-functioning team
· Lead authority on technical information for prints and graphics such as feasibility, new techniques, problem solving
· Lead cross-functional partnerships with CAD and Print/Graphic Design teams and for the Regional Teams, Vendors, PD, Production and Product Design.
· Partner with Ops and PD to ensure calendar is workable to get strike offs approved for orders and sample yardage for color samples and PSRs
· Coordinate local digital printing, as needed
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Minimum Salary : $144,300.00
Maximum Salary : $197,085.00
VS&Co provides an estimated range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual compensation will be determined by a number of relevant factors, including but not limited to your specific skills, experience, & geographic location.
Your Experience
· Bachelor’s Degree (preferably with a concentration in apparel production management) or equivalent experience
· Min 10 years’ experience in print pattern and graphic product development and sourcing
· Domestic/International travel as required.
· Prior experience leading a team
· Expertise in repeat of artwork, fabric content and printing machine type and basic testing for QA.
· Expertise in printing, yarn dyes, and graphic manufacturing.
· Expertise in garment washing, garment dyeing and fabric finishing.
· Expertise in printing process (understanding how print pattern and graphic development impacts the product development process through commercialization and applies knowledge to ensure business objectives are achieved).
· Excellent in approving colors and layout for pattern and graphic strike offs
· Ability to offer solutions to manufacturing challenges.
· Good management skills to lead associate member.
· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
· Excellent organizational skills.
· Excellent computer skills – Excel, Word, Outlook, Centric and Photoshop.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance
An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.
