Footwear Development Manager

Your Job:
The Footwear Product Development Manager- You will help the team to drive footwear development process from concept to production. Work with cross-functional and multi-national product creation team to support development process between US, Asia and factories. Ensure products meet or exceed our quality standards and fit feel ride demands consistently from development until to commercialization handoff. generating and communicating ideas regarding the engineering principles that enhance footwear performance and manufacturing efficiency of our products. A great problem solver and a great decision maker with an excellent presentation and communication skills. You have the capability to see the big pictures and understand how to manage teams to work towards organizational goals and strategy. You are able to coach and lead the other developers with their assigned projects and help to well develop their career paths. Assist your manager for all the assigned tasks as required and build or enhance the great partnerships with internal and external partners. You must be a great team player who is extremely understand the importance of teamwork is part of Brooks culture and be flexible for relocate if required.
Your Responsibilities:
• Develop strong working relationship with internal and external partners to enable joint problem solving to achieve win win situations.
• Proactively guide the team to recommend construction/costing/process solutions in regards of all technical blueprints (outsole/ midsole/ upper), upper patterns and materials to optimize performance, manufacturability, and aesthetics perspective.
• Proficient at problem solving for development or production issues - understanding the upstream and downstream effects.
• work with senior manager to standardize the development process across teams and factories, deliver training and share the best practice to the cross-functional product teams.
• Lead the development team to ensure that products are manufacturable and meet cost, quality, fit feel and ride expectations.
• Keep up to date on latest footwear trends and manufacturing process and techniques.
• Display an in-depth knowledge of manufacturing process with the ability to learn new manufacturing techniques and apply them to products.
• Coach staffs, encouraging team member to actively engage in questions, research, observing, networking, and experimenting to inform project and program direction.
• Ability to lead thought around footwear innovation and problem solve for commercialization and achieve on time delivery in terms of seasonal Calendars.
• High level understanding of the concepts of footwear creation process-pattern engineering (pattern making, block system and grade rule), model making, costing implications, materials application.
• Lead meetings with cross-functional team during various phases to review, evaluate issues and drive action plans. Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills with persistent questioning to find out the “whys?”
• Manage the developers to build their skill set and develop the opportunities for them to grow to be success.
• effectively communicate with Asia and US teams of all the issues and solutions in terms of construction, cost and aesthetics.

Qualifications:
10+ years relevant experience in the product development of Athletic Footwear
Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation skills, must be extremely detail oriented.
7+ years of development experience working with multiple footwear categories or extremely specialized in category and able to provide solution driven suggestions/guidance. People management experiences is requested
Passionate participation in Brooks’ sports activities a plus, overridden by the ability to understand and empathize with the runner in order to develop loyal, engaging relationships with our customers and the Brooks community.
must be proficient with MS office application (excel, work and powerpoint); Flex PLM , MS project , Illustrator experience a plus.
Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
Demonstration of innovation and initiative – always looking at improving our products and processes while also displaying a willingness to dive into the details and help out wherever necessary.
Excellent verbal and written skills in English, Mandarin is a plus
Ability to anticipate how a decision made can affect our customers, our partners, our products or other departments’ operations and/or morale; “connecting the dots.”
Keen attention to detail in planning, organization, and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect one another.
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field preferred.
Strong organizational skills and independent work habits.
Position Classification: Exempt
Department: Footwear Product Development
Reports to: Director, Footwear Development - Asia

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