
Hybrid Supply Chain Development Analyst bei River Island
River Island · London, Vereinigtes Königreich · Hybrid
- Senior
- Optionales Büro in London
What You Will Do
- Drive the delivery of River Island key fabric trends to the BMD teams alongside the design trend presentations seasonally outlining newness on materials, yarn, print, washes and finishes.
- Deliver regular fabric trend reports through social media, catwalk, fabric trade show, comp-shops as well as weekly fabric newness meetings.
- Lead speed to market fabric sourcing strategy to deliver fast track production focus via HP. Join weekly trade meetings to sign off fabric trading opportunities at speed.
- Work with the buying teams to structure sustainable fabric strategies to deliver sustainability commitments with biggest impact, robust certification and minimal margin impact.
- Identify core volume fabric pots, seasonal volumes and speed to market fabric trends. Suggest new pot moves on to ensure core lines offer the newest fabric updates.
- Build fabric price architecture with buying teams to deliver margin and quality.
- Own bulk fabric negotiation & cross costing core fabrics & HP orders to contribute to the delivery of departments margin targets.
- Maintain an affective in-house Fabric Library & action sampling for development samples.
- Significant experience of fabric purchasing & production, as well as fabric printing process’
- Strong understanding of new sustainability legislation and sustainable fibre switching implementation.
- Experience in building fabric strategy working across multiple departments, regions and critical paths in depth knowledge of fashion trends, interpreting market intel, and comp shops.
- Knowledge of product critical paths and open/cross costings.
- Confidence in reading fabric technical reports & specs.
- Global material supply chain knowledge and contacts essential with robust relationships.
- Collaborative, highly organised, able to prioritise.
- Agility and ability to absorb change in line with business priorities.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Confident presentation skills and excellent communication skills.
About Us
This role is based at our Head Office in West London. Check us out here on a map.
What we can offer you:
💰 Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself to the latest products, and a bargain staff shop on site!
🛒 Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through Reward Gateway!
🎉 A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café to fill you needs. Various social events to socialise throughout the year.
🤎 Every family is unique, we support Islanders with all different family setups enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment. We also work closely with the Retail Trust to create dedicated support for all our Islanders!
💻 Flexible working is a given, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.
💕 Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and receive matched funding.
🎓 Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications. A succession plan if you want to progress.
💰 A generous bonus scheme & private pension plan.
☀️ 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays. With the added option to purchase additional holiday twice a year for whatever the need!
Keeping You Safe
Our Island is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about this interview process, check out our hiring process below.