About the Company and Job Details:
About Brandix
At Brandix, a pioneer in Sri Lanka’s Apparel industry, we develop, manufacture and market end to end apparel solutions for world renowned brands. With a purpose to deliver Inspired Solutions through Inspired People, we have a team of over 60,000 employees across nine countries including India, Bangladesh, Haiti and the United Kingdom. On a journey to be the most sustainable apparel manufacturer in the region, Brandix embeds real change across every point of our operations as we care for our planet and the communities in which we serve
Key purpose of the Job
The SBU Product Technologist is responsible for coordinating and providing technical support & follow-up with relevant stakeholders & supplier sources for the assigned RM & products development/ technology translation to ensure final garment development to meet the customer’s inspiration.This includes an understanding of customer requirements, product research new market trends/ consumer needs, evaluation & mitigation of the development risk, customer testing protocols, consumption & costing, and coordination for sample development with third-party supplier sources facilities as well as within the Group facilities.Moreover, it covers RM innovation, garment dye innovation, and embellishment innovation in collaboration with strategic suppliers, R&D institutes, customers, and internal /Group cross-functional teams, supply chain teams while focusing on optimum product cost in line with each customer/stakeholder’s satisfaction & operating model.Furthermore, the job holder is responsible for executing the duties and responsibilities in relation to the Health & Safety guidelines, instructions, and protocols of the Organization.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Understanding of customer requirements with research on customer competition, consumer needs & trends while brainstorming the most appropriate product solution right time in the right quality
2. Collaboratively work with internal and external teams to identify new opportunities and provide a complete solution by integrating RM innovation, garment dye innovation, embellishment innovation or value-added subprocess and garment construction
3. Collaboratively work with marketing leads, Cross-functional teams & the Supply chain teams in SBU & Group to be updated about customer insights while funnel out the best reliable Supplier sources to develop product solutions at optimizing profit/ minimal cost in commercially viable realization
4. Liaise with the technology entrepreneur lead, Process Entrepreneur leads in each SBU to provide as well as extract customized solutions based on product category apparel, bra, and underwear translation
5. Identify the possible risk & established necessary mitigation plans on product development while facilitating target customer quality parameters & testing in the agreed critical path. Also maintain with close follow up
6. Liaise with the design entrepreneur lead for the brainstorming, and concept finalization process from end to end while providing the solution for product realization with the consumption & cost validation processes in bulk operation
7. Lead and manage the team, maintain the development tracking document & KPI monitoring tool with assurance of up-to-date records while adhering to the company health & Safety protocols & RITE values
Education
Bachelor’s degree or Diploma (3+ year) in Textile/ Clothing/ Fabric technology or any other relevant stream in raw material over 3+ academic strength
Experience
Fast moving on own status quo with forward-thinking with excellent Team skills will be considered for priority
2+ years of relevant experience with team /process handling in textile technology & research both the front end & backend operation
Closing Date: 2023/11/17