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 Lead, Footwear Sourcing
 
 
 
 Boston, MA
 
 
 
 Who You&rsquo;ll Work With
 
 
 
 The Lead Seasonal Footwear Sourcing position works in partnership with strategic sourcing within the Converse Global Sourcing organization and reports directly to the Director of Global Sourcing. This role is integral to advancing our global sourcing capabilities within the seasonal sourcing zone. The Lead Sourcing position will engage collaboratively and requires effective cross functional collaboration with supply and inventory planning, product development as well a product and consumer merchandising teams.
 
 
 
 Who We Are Looking For
 
 
 
 We are looking for someone who can operate effectively within a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a consistent focus on meeting deadlines and achieving key milestones. The role entails managing ambiguity and establishing robust processes and decision-making frameworks to support seasonal sourcing activities. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills to optimize allocation procedures, evaluate capacity trends each season, and develop practical solutions for routine operational issues.
 
 
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 Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in business, supply chain, engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
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 5+ years of procurement, sourcing, costing, or relevant experience in supply chain
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 Strong material expertise in the Footwear or Apparel industry preferred
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 Great knowledge of suppliers landscape
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 Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to go the extra mile to find solutions
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 Must be comfortable with navigating ambiguity, and have the ability to navigate through a complicated stakeholder matrix to achieve results and drive strategic decision-making
 
 
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 What You&rsquo;ll Work On
 
 
 
 You will act as the primary point of contact for all cross-functional teams regarding in-season sourcing timelines, leading and executing the forecast allocation and capacity management processes for each seasonal milestone in collaboration with the Converse Liaison office and manufacturing partners. Your key responsibilities will include overseeing seasonal model allocations by considering cost, capacity, and delivery objectives across the manufacturing network to ensure cost efficiency and on-time delivery.
 
 
 
 Forecast Allocation
 
 
 
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 Drive the seasonal allocation process to align the buy to source strategy while optimizing for cost, E2E lead times, and supplier performance.
 
 
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 Capacity Management
 
 
 
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 Establish centralized capacity data source &amp; capacity decision framework that spans across all time horizons that will enable timely and efficient capacity decision making
 
 
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 Utilization/Loading
 
 
 
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 Utilize forecast optimization methodologies to align source strategy with proper loading and utilization rate targets for factory partners across seasonal time horizons
 
 
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 Model Optimization
 
 
 
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 Seasonal model planning activities related to model source assignment + optimized model shifts and new allocations based on costing RFQs.
 
 
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 Reporting
 
 
 
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 Present reports &amp; serve as sourcing main point of contact for cross functional teams for in season supplier performance (Model allocation, capacity, loading, seasonal strategy, capabilities, costing)
 
 
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 We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
 
 
 It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Lead Footwear Sourcing

<div>ABOUT CONVERSE
Are you interested in working for the most iconic and well-loved sneaker brand in the world? Born in sports and made for the street, Converse is a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. We seek people who can lead, grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. Converse seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Converse, it&rsquo;s about each person bringing their authentic self, skills, and passion to serve the daring spirit of youth.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
Become part of the Converse Team
Converse is a place where you can be at work AND be yourself. It&rsquo;s a place to be creative, to come up with cool new ideas and to work with a friendly and welcoming team. At Converse, it&rsquo;s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.
The Product Creation team has a one-team mentality across a multitude of specialties - Trend and Concept, Footwear Design, Merchandising, Product Development and Business Operations - collectively driven to deliver the Converse consumers with the best products possible and advance the independent spirit of youth.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We&rsquo;re looking for a Footwear Designer for the Global Womens Footwear team (level: Designer 2). The person who fills this role will be a key player on our team &ndash; delivering design solutions for Women&rsquo;s ranging from footwear new creation to advanced color and material concepts.
The ideal candidate is a fashion obsessed, creative problem solver who&rsquo;s ready and willing to work in a team environment. In this role they will be responsible for a portion of the team&rsquo;s design work which fluctuates by season and need. We&rsquo;re looking for someone who has their finger on the pulse of youth culture and a strong ability to deliver innovative design solutions on a spectrum of commercial to energetic that inspires our trend leading Women&rsquo;s consumer &ndash; including applying color, material and graphics as well as developing intricate trim and novelty details for our icons.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
If this ideal candidate is you, you&rsquo;ll be working closely with our Women&rsquo;s Design Director, the Women&rsquo;s Design Team and other functions such as product merchandisers and developers to create a line of progressive Womens footwear four seasons per year. You&rsquo;ll be receiving and interpreting briefs, coming up with creative solutions that hit the brief, sharing your ideas via drawings, presentations and mood boards and working to make those solutions a reality through Illustrator documents, material exploration and responsible costing.
Most days involve self-directed design with check-ins as needed with various team members. Your typical day is a mix of creative design ideation, designing new creation and seasonal collections, and creating the technical specifications to hand off to our Development Team to prepare product for manufacturing. You need to be able to direct your own workflow to a certain extent and will need to be a proactive, organized and goal-oriented designer, but you will always have the support you want and need from your director and your teammates.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will be reporting to the Senior Designer on Women&rsquo;s and you will be close teammates with them and the rest of the Inline Design Team. You will be working cross-functionally with the Womens triad, made up of Product Merchants (responsible for the business, building briefs and merchandising the line) and the Development Team (responsible for creating technically sound and manufacturable footwear). We work as one team where everyone&rsquo;s voice is respected, and we work together toward shared goals. Outside of that we also get trend and creative direction from the Trend team and the Creative Director, work with other designers across categories, and have several all-design events and milestones.
WHAT YOU BRING
Design Requirements:<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in product design or relevant design degree or combination of relevant education, experience, and training.</li><li>
At least 3-4 years experience designing and developing lifestyle focused footwear with an emphasis on fashion.</li><li>
Knowledge of form, color, materials, human factors, related to elevating the Women&rsquo;s consumer experience.</li><li>
Passion for Women&rsquo;s fashion, Runway, Sport and Youth Culture</li><li>
Previous footwear design experience preferred</li><li>
Strong Photoshop, Illustrator skills</li><li>
Must be able to create accurate 2D technical drawings for material development and activations.</li><li>
Strong sketching, illustration, and rendering skills</li><li>
Knowledge of footwear material, trim details and hardware development preferred. As well as knowledge of footwear manufacturing and development.</li><li>
Must be able to generate a broad range of concepts and solutions for each project on a scale of mild to wild.</li><li>
Cobbling and prototyping skills are a plus</li><li>
Experienced with presentation programs: Keynote, Powerpoint, Acrobat, etc.</li></ul>
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.</div>

Designer II, Converse Womens Footwear

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Lead Footwear Sourcing

Designer II, Converse Womens Footwear