Date: 2 Jun 2025
Location: VN
Company: Coats
Duties and expectations
Ensure that all textile design related aspects to Proweave and specific technical tasks flow efficiently from brand development to production departments in collaboration with the Global Account team members. The textile designer is responsible for crafting all textile CAD requirements throughout the creation process sampling to production of the textiles including keeping tasks and projects on deadline, handling the logistics and keeping all parties updated on the progress specific to role responsibilities. Duties include being an active partner in the ProWeave team and working within the innovation sampling process for ProWeave. The end goal is to ensure the project goes smoothly and both the client who requested the project and the cross functional members of the project team, who did the work, are satisfied with the result.
Responsibilities
ProWeave Development Lead
- Create and Collaborate: Provide expert technical knowledge of the main textile and fabrics construction process. Communicate to the ProWeave team for the following: Responsible for creating CAD design detail and structural orthogonal fabrics on time, for various stages of a project. Start to finish, expecting multiple rounds of revisions from brand and internal feedback. Be the daily expert on status.
- Drive the Process. Solely responsible to drive internal design requirement during different stages to development and production.
- Communicate: Meet with project team members to learn more about new project requests.
- Collaborate: with project team, external resources and vendors to ensure timely delivery of the assigned tasks related to design, sampling creation
ProWeave Innovation / Creation Expert
- Key information expert for industry / technology and trends.
- Lead the creation of a seasonal palette for ProWeave ideation to physical samples.
- Drive sample creation process (hanger cards / distribution).
- Work with in house marketing to develop seasonal story and digital content.
- Deliver to identified material shows on time, appropriate messaged new content, seasonally.
Professional experience and skills
To succeed as the Textile Designer - Proweave, you need the ability to multitask, organize and collaborate. As a project team member, you juggle a wide variety of projects originated from external clients with competing deadlines with limited resources. Strong decision-making and prioritization are essential to make sure everything runs smoothly, with the ability to be as organized as possible to schedule and execute against deadlines as needed.
This position also requires significant collaboration bridging product creation, development and production. Excellent people management skills are a requirement. You need to know how to effectively translate requests and assignments from clients to deliverables, which includes meeting deadlines and following up when you don’t, pushing back when clients make unrealistic requests and making sure everyone is satisfied with outputs required from your design role.
- Additional skills required include time-management, an eye for detail and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with Excel, Team, and the MS Suite is important.
- Previous textile design experience, whether that’s in an agency or corporate setting.
- 5 years of experience in the textile industry, specifically in woven or knitted textiles is a requirement
- Fluent in English required, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Italian a plus.
- Position located in Vietnam.
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