Summary

As an R&D Assistant Fabric at Ralph Lauren, you will assist in curating all aspects of the research, development, and presentations for all woven categories.

Responsibilities

• Use your talent and skill to execute products in keeping with the Ralph Lauren aesthetic and sustainability goals.
• Ensure all key and Heritage fabrics are housed within the digital library as developed.
• Facilitate R&D to mitigate issues related to fabric development and proactively seek creative solutions.
• Systematically track all studio developments.
• Ensure all adopted fabrics showcased within the studio meet RL compliance and testing standards.
• Foster good working relationships with Mills and Vendors, Drive clear concise communications with excellent records.
• Ability to attend meetings, compile accurate notes and recap post meeting.
• Assist in curating market and trend information and communicate to partners.
• Facilitate studio pop ups for cross functional teams both physically and digitally.
• Help to facilitate counter developments on all platformed and key materials in multiple countries to enable maximum sourcing flexibility.
• Assist and manage all aspects of daily operation of the Raw Materials studio.

Requirements

• Degree in Fashion Textiles preferred.
• Technical knowledge of woven fabrics.
• Strong interpersonal skills, organizational skills with extremely detailed attention to products.
• Ability to communicate and interact with all cross functional teams.
• PLM experience.
• Strong general computer skills. Excel, Teams, PowerPoint are essential.
• Adobe Creative suite, 3D Design software used to create 3D enabled fabrics, preferred.
• Demonstrates flexibility in meeting unexpected and/or planned work fluctuations.
• Ability to walk long distances, ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to bend and lift boxes weighing up 15-25 lbs.
• Ability to climb a ladder.