3 years 8 months Temporary assignment managing material development for Nike Men's Lifestyle Footwear products.

(3 years 8 months) • Strategic Sourcing Leader: Develop and execute long-term sourcing strategies that drive supply chain resiliency, responsibility, and responsiveness for packaging materials. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align sourcing plans with business objectives. • Vendor Performance Management: Successfully manage a portfolio of packaging vendors, fostering strong relationships and driving performance excellence through regular business reviews, scorecarding, and continuous improvement initiatives. • Sustainability Champion: Acted as the sourcing lead for packaging waste reduction efforts, working closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers to implement packaging waste reduction solutions. Implemented sustainable packaging solutions that resulted in ~10% reduction in FW packaging waste. • Collaborative Problem-Solving: Partner with internal stakeholders, including Packaging Development, Operations, and suppliers to resolve packaging- related issues and improve ways of working.

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(2 years 1 month) Manage marketing trim and packaging development/sourcing for the below divisions: - Calvin Klein Underwear - Tommy Hilfiger Underwear

(1 year 1 month) - Managed trim and packaging development for Secondary Market and Club accounts in the Men's Dress Shirts (wovens) product category. - Acted as a liason between design and overseas hubs to minimize production delays and liabilities. - Created clear and accurate tech packs to decrease factory and overseas hub confusion. Effectively increased tech pack accuracy rate to 80% as a product administrative team. - Worked with main line design teams and product administrators to translate higher end trim and packaging to the secondary market world while maintaining brand integrity.

•Worked as a liaison between overseas hub offices and designers to effectively develop trim and packaging. •Extensively used WebPDM systems to update and create styles, trim, and packaging. •Trained design teams on use of WebPDM and XPC systems, as well as how to effectively communicate with overseas hubs. •Assisted tech design during underwear fittings. •Created a new Addition/Revision form to be used across Product Development, Sales, and Sourcing departments during the Spring 2015 season. •Created a fabric reference library for future use by designers. •Created new folding techniques to effectively merchandise product in-store. •Created a new line for the IZOD brand, and presented designs, sourcing strategy, and marketing tactics to top PVH executives.

Assisted the Sales and Public Relations teams with showroom merchandising and market appointments through Paris Fashion Week in October 2013.

•Assisted Product Development team in costing, quality analysis, and line sheet creation through extensive Microsoft Excel work. •Communicated with local New York City Vendors •Provided feedback to factories in China and Hong Kong on quality analysis findings. •Merchandised and maintained the showroom of the Eddie Borgo luxury costume jewelry line. •Facilitated sample trafficking, and maintain sample inventory. •Pulled jewelry pieces for photo-shoots and red carpet events. •Performed basic administrative duties.