MCQUEEN Leathergoods Industrialization Specialist

Your opportunity

The role is responsible for managing all leather goods product industrialization processes, ensuring compliance with Alexander McQueen timelines, quality and quantity standards.

Hor will you contribute?

• Participate in Technical Review meetings with the Design and Merchandising teams to gather requested product modifications, preparing and updating the related technical documentation

• Assess the technical feasibility of product modifications in collaboration with the LG Pattern Making & Industrialization Manager and external suppliers, coordinating the fine-tuning of both finished products and intermediate manufacturing processes

• Manage and archive master of finished products and intermediate manufacturing, ensuring they are properly updated and fully traceable

• Follow up with the Production team to monitor the progress of industrialization activities and ensure models are released to production according to agreed timelines

• Oversee the progress of industrialization activities, driving corrective actions in the event of delays or critical issues and ensuring alignment among Product Development, Quality, Production and suppliers

• Manage the requirements, ordering and allocation of accessories, materials, and components necessary for the production of finished product masters and intermediate manufacturing

• Coordinate all activities related to the production of cutting dies with designated suppliers

• Define, monitor, and evaluate, in collaboration with the Quality and Product Development teams, the tests required to ensure the quality of the finished product

• Support the Quality team in the analysis and approval of first production samples

• Manage and monitor the budget allocated to industrialization activities

• Prepare, update, and maintain product technical specifications and documentation

• Produce periodic reports on supplier performance

Required Skills:

• You will be able to demonstrate the desired Alexander McQueen behaviours 

• You have at least 5 years of relevant experience in a similar role or in LG Product Development activities

• Proven capacity to work under pressure and with tight deadlines

• Fluent in English and Italian

• Good knowledge of MS Office and particularly MS Excel.  Knowledge of programs like Stealth or PLM is considered a plus

• Well organized and detail oriented

• Dynamic, with a problem-solving attitude and capacity to establish positive working relations with colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers

What we offer

• CCNL Applied: “Addetti alle Industrie Manifatturiere delle Pelli e Succedanei e Ombrelli e Ombrelloni”(unique alphanumeric code: D111)

• Category: Impiegati

• Indicative starting salary: 36.207€ (unless otherwise agreed, in the event of a positive outcome of the selection process, specific levels of experience and autonomy and/or particular competencies emerge during the selection process, based on objective criteria)

• Benefit: in addition to those provided by the applicable National Collective Labour Agreement and by law, further benefits and initiatives are provided in accordance with current company policies.

Kering is committed to diversity and inclusion and to providing equal opportunities in employment. We believe diversity in all its forms – disability, age, color, ancestry, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, gender identity, religion – enriches the workplace. It opens opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to adapt to a changing world. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their background.

The selection process is open to candidates of any gender, age, origin, orientation, or background, in full compliance with the principles of equal opportunities, non-discrimination, and pay transparency.