Livia Lee
Shanghai,China
Summary
10+ years of fabric and trim sourcing, mockup and product developing experience.
Familiar with material costs, development procedures and quality standards.
Garment costing analysis, sample fitting, grading, and making details checking.
Support design to build best products with best possible price and quality.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Product Developer
H&M
Shanghai, China
05.2016 - 07.2023
- Build and maintain a close working partnership with Design. Acting as the technical partner for design, providing feedback on technical feasibility, brainstorming ideas and solutions to ensure the design vision is translated into product.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with T1 and T2 suppliers, developing a strong working knowledge of supplier's capability and capacity to meet demands and standards.
- Collect and source new fabrics and trims according to tendency in the beginning of each season.
- Keep up with sustainable options development status. Make sure hand feel, appearance, price and lead-time could meet our demand.
- Material selection should be in line with product target price range. Work on checking different price level options.
- Deliver sample expectations to suppliers clearly and make sure it is feasible for suppliers to interpret.
- Own the development milestone dates to guarantee the on-time transition to production. Prioritize urgent sourcing items and prototype developments.
- Coordinates and attends fittings to ensure sample can catch assortment product meeting and get approvals.
- Highlights development issues and proposes resolutions to meet seasonal calendar.
Product Development Manager
Pactics
Shanghai, China
06.2014 - 05.2016
- Work together with Sales and Design to generate development plan.
- Lead product development team. Assign sourcing request according to development plan and timeline.
- Arrange graphic design team to work together with pattern maker to generate artwork according to customer request.
- Arrange prototype sample request with sample room according to approved artwork and sourced materials.
- Make sure to have competitive price, reasonable lead-time and good service from vendors and suppliers.
- Cooperate with QC and production team to make sure there is no issues or problems for bulk.
- Work with cross-functional partners to manage and report out styles and costing.
- Ensures quality and on time delivery of protos and sale samples
- Handover product tech pack and approved samples to production team.
Senior Merchandiser
Built, NY
Shenzhen, China
02.2009 - 04.2014
- Go over product material sourcing plan with design team.
- Request, follow up and send out fabric hangers, lap dips, strike offs, trims and samples to design team. Make sure products are developed according to strategy and timeline.
- Communicate with vendors and suppliers on a daily basis monitoring on time sample delivery.
- Manage and maintain approval comments for technique mockups, color standards, lab dips and strike-offs
- Seek feedback from design team. Provide improve comments to suppliers for better materials and samples.
- Managing and maintaining supplier relationships. Source new suppliers to fulfill newness sourcing needs.
- Visit New York office to get more inspiration. Also share updated supplier capacity and development status with sales, development, and production team.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business English
Heilongjiang University
China 09/2003 - 07/2008
Skills
- Global and strategic sourcing
- Safety and quality standards
- Technical Support
- Product Management
- Monitoring and reporting
- Mockups and prototypes
Languages
English
Fluent
Timeline
Global Product Developer
H&M
05.2016 - 07.2023
Product Development Manager
Pactics
06.2014 - 05.2016
Senior Merchandiser
Built, NY
02.2009 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Business English
Heilongjiang University
09/2003 - 07/2008
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