CMF Designer

Responsibilities

• Develop, revise and oversea Technical Packages for assigned projects, ensuring all requirements for aesthetics, proportion, manufacturing, and costing are met.
• Interpret design intent; provide alternative and supplementary solutions as a technical resource to stakeholders and factories.
• Guide all aspects of colour, material, and finish mastering, including analysis and approval of colour, material, finish, and grain to validate appearance and quality.
• Track and facilitate prototyping of multiple products. Identify and address manufacturing/costing issues and deliver against tight timelines.
• Manage multiple parallel-path projects and high-volume workloads in a fast-paced environment.
• Communicate status of material masters and prototypes to Design Quality, CMF Design, Procurement and Engineering teams and escalate risks where needed.
• Participate in global annual and long-term creative direction strategies to influence innovation.
• Present and communicate creative solutions clearly and effectively to stakeholders.
• Seek new design resources to elevate and inspire the design team.
• Review and approve development stages of sample execution.
• Develop supply base and track timelines to ensure materials are production ready.
• Support and implement tactical protocols, procedures, tools, and software to streamline the material mastering system.
• Distil complex Excel / Data into clear, visually compelling, single-slide summaries that quickly communicate the current project status to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in design, Textiles, CMF, Industrial Design, Product Development or relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• UK + Chinese Language.
• Demonstrate high colour acuity and ability to articulate precise colour and appearance differences; pass the Munsell Hue Test with a superior score.
• Experience with colour quality evaluation using colour measurement tools, digital data, and visual analysis.
• Experience tracking supplier performance metrics and supporting corrective action plans to meet timing and quality goals.
• Proven ability to implement procedures and systems for tactical protocol.
• Pragmatic approach to facilitating creative projects, focusing on process and coordination rather than direct design execution.
• Excellent at building and maintaining external and internal relationships including travelling to suppliers.
• Bring an excellent knowledge of technical material knowledge to educate and influence the design team.
• Strong communication and organised skills; obsessive attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to manage multiple projects with short timelines.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Exceptional visual communication skills - can extract meaning from raw data and translate it into understandable, actionable graphics that fit onto a single slide.

Additional Information

Purpose and Overall Relevance: Collaborate with sourcing, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to develop industry-leading creative, functional, and cost-effective solutions for assigned concepts or categories. Responsible for all aspects of the colour and material mastering process-driving quality, innovation, and production feasibility for world-class products.

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