Location: Mornington Crescent, Greater London House, NW1

Department: Fabric Technology

Level: Guide

Reports to: Materials Compliance Lead

The Opportunity

As a Senior Fabric Technologist, you'll be responsible for introducing fabric management into our garment manufacturing process, supporting ASOS in moving from a reactive to a strategic and proactive process. You'll focus on development, testing and approval of fabric qualities for our Sportswear ranges, at the development stage, to help us to reduce lead times, increase efficiency and secure adherence to ASOS' fabric quality standards.

The Team

ASOS is one of the UK’s top fashion and beauty destinations, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave, creative and disciplined and we live and breathe these in everything we do.
 

The technical team at ASOS are all about achieving the right product quality that not only looks great but fits well and is fantastic value for money. They work closely with the buying, design, sourcing and merchandising teams and are a key support to our design.

What you’ll be doing… 

• You’ll be responsible for implementing a robust Fabric Management System for Sportswear departments with best practices incorporated within supply base to increase customer trust and confidence in our brand through quality consistency across all fabric qualities

• Introducing a Fabric Development function by working together with Design, Buying and Sourcing and oversee the fabric approval process

• Overseeing developments, filter newness in fibres / yarns / dyestuff technologies

• Deliver ACFT (ASOS certified fabric technologist) fabric management training to suppliers empowering them to self-approve and support speed to market.

• Managing an approved core fabric qualities library

• Ensuring that there is high quality and consistency on the global manufacturing scale by using approved core fabrics for bulk production

• Working closely with the wider Fabric Compliance & technical team, you’ll support in formulating strategy to deliver “fast response, right first time” fabrics.

• Working with the wider Fabric Technical team to formulate and implement a preferred Mill Fabric strategy, to gain transparency and ensuring fabric quality meets customer satisfaction.

• Understand the true cost of fabric and leverage our scale through group negotiation to support business savings in collaboration with sourcing, buying, design and merch teams.    .

• Using a Mill Accreditation system, build partnerships with the best yarn & fabric mills

We’d love to meet someone with…

• Experience and in-depth knowledge of Sportswear fabrics and performance

• Previous experience of working for a reputable Sportswear brand or supplier

• An excellent eye for fabric and technical detail

• Proven multi-disciplinary product experience, within laboratory and retail settings

• Great team working skills and a collaborative approach

• Confidence in building relationships with various stakeholders across the business

• Highly motivated, with proven experience in driving key objectives at pace

What's in it for you?

We will give you a competitive salary, bonus scheme, staff discount, sample sales and pension matching but also a fantastic bunch of flexible benefits that focus on your health, wealth & inner self for you and your friends and family. 

We are all equal!

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workforce.  We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you’re from. Where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. Where individuality is a source of confidence, because difference makes the world a better place.