Overview

As a Raw Materials Development and Procurement specialist, you partner with Design and Sourcing to translate creative vision into material reality while managing cost and timelines. You act as a technical ambassador, ensuring feasibility, quality, and fit-for-purpose outcomes across vendors and internal teams. You drive material innovations, risk mitigation, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver on Burberry's design intent at scale.

Your work supports sustainable luxury by balancing creativity with commercial impact and supplier capability.

Responsabilità

- Partner with Design to translate creative vision into material specifications and feasibility feedback
- Maintain strong relationships with vendors and assess their capabilities and capacity
- Research and develop new raw material concepts and technologies aligned with briefs
- Collaborate with mills on samples and colorways to ensure design execution
- Define and manage the raw material development critical path with Product Development and Design
- Ensure on-time delivery, quality, and cost targets while mitigating risks
- Confirm material functionality,



standardization, and fitness for customer, brand, and business needs
- Collaborate with Operations for testing and production readiness, negotiating aesthetic changes as needed
- Support production meetings and prepare proto and sample requirements for production
- Maintain 100% PLM accuracy

Requisiti fondamentali
- Strong vendor relationship management and ability to issue clear briefs
- Expert technical knowledge of leather and fabric processing from development to industrialization
- Understanding of testing parameters, quality standards, and chemicals used in finishing
- Experience working on-site with vendors and factory operations
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Deep fashion knowledge, trends, and luxury consumer awareness
- Proficiency with PLM and Excel
- collaborative
- strong negotiation
- issue resolution
- leather processing
- fabric development and industrialisation
- materials sourcing and cost management

📌 Manager, Raw Materials Shoes (Firenze)
🏢 Burberry
📍 Firenze