Manager Fabric Planning

JOB DESCRIPTION

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As the Manager Fabric Planning you are responsible for leading the Fabric Planning team and overseeing the strategic planning and management of fabric booking and allocation. This role is necessary for strategic raw material planning seamless collaboration among the resource planning team sourcing team vendors and mill partners and monitoring. You will report into the Director Raw Materials and Bottoms Planning.

About the Job

Fabric Requirement Forecasting:

• Analyse production plans and demand forecasts to determine fabric needs.

• Develop accurate fabric requirement plans aligned with seasonal production cycles.

Supplier Coordination and Communication:

• Ensure capacity use with mills and fabric suppliers. Escalate any constraints promptly.

• Collaborate with mills and fabric suppliers to secure quality materials.

Fabric Inventory Management:

• Monitor fabric inventory levels to prevent excess stock or shortages.

• Analyze appropriate safety cover based on fabric class.

• Coordinate with vendors mills and production teams to optimize fabric usage and minimise waste.

• Track fabric inventory level at the vendors and mills

Fabric Production Planning:

• Collaborate with production design and sourcing teams to align fabric orders with manufacturing schedules.

• Monitor fabric in transit to ensure fabric delivery

• Allocate fabric to respective vendors following monthly production plan and priority. Escalate any constraints promptly.

• Adjust plans in response to changes in demand or production issues.

• Verify fabric flow against leadtimes and monthly offered capacity

• Execute decoupled LT on products with fabric prebooked to achieve CTC goal of LT reduction

Fabric Reporting:

• Track fabric use among multiple planning programmes (MRP Global Power Core)

• Ensure fabric is at vendors if greige date is in the past in production plan that indicate fabrics have been booked by vendors and PO issued to mills.

• Reconcile the fabrics with next planning cycle if griege date is in the past

• Track Excess fabric (Liability) Report to GLL.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities for process improvements in fabric planning and supplier management.

• Implement best practices and contribute to overall supply chain efficiency enhancements.

Collaboration:

• Work with resource planning sourcing and PD teams to support seamless operations.

• Foster relationships with both team members and external partners

About You:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Textiles Production or any equivalent.

• Over 15 years of experience in supply chain management with 35 years specifically focused on raw material or fabric planning within the garment/apparel industry is good to have.

• Proven experience in leading and managing teams of planners across regions or product categories.

• Background in strategic planning and vendor capacity management

• Exposure to global supply chains and multicountry sourcing environments

• Proficiency in ERP/MRP systems (e.g. SAP Oracle) and advanced Excel or planning tools

• Experience collaborating with teamssourcing product development and manufacturing

• Understanding of leadtime management and logistics coordination for raw materials

Benefits

We put a lot of thought into our programs to provide you with a benefits package that matters. Whether it is for medical care taking time off improving your health or planning for retirement weve got you covered.

Heres a small snapshot:

• Complimentary preventive health checkup for you & your spouse

• OPD coverage

• Counselling sessions to prioritize mental wellbeing

• Exclusive discount vouchers on Levis products

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to empowering individuals from all walks of life to achieve their professional goals with us regardless of race religion gender gender identity pregnancy disability sexual orientation age national origin citizenship status or genetic information. We actively seek and encourage applications from diverse candidates including those with disabilities and offer accommodations throughout the selection process upon request. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyones perspectives and experience we never discriminate based on race religion national origin gender identity or expression sexual orientation age or marital veteran or disability status.

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FULL TIME/PART TIME

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