Leading a team to create, industrialize products for Aigle, luxury brands. (Céline, Chanel,...) and collaborations. Innovation on products & processes. Product brief, client relation, feasibility, development, industrialization, costing.

Create: Invent & build product lines that match the brand's path to successOpen Countrylife, performance footwear, accessories linesDesign: moodboard, benchmark, renderings, tech files.Business plan: critical path, target prices & volumes, margins"PR": attend fairs, interviews, events to talk about the brand, its development and products.

Creation & design of sports and casual lines. City, Country life, performance hiking. Footwear, accessories (small leather good, dog, gifting, bags), care products.Writing and execution of the critical pathProduct development in factories, countries covered, France Italy, Portugal, Morrocco, Romania and in Asia. Industrialization, follow up. SMS, CFM samples and Mass production.Source factories that meet the product and brand requirements, critical path, RSE requirements, target prices. Audit and validate suppliers.Wear test, fitting, continuous improvementBuy raw materials and finished product. Volume, delays, insure goods delivery to warehouse.Writing the quality files: RSE, RSL, technical minimum requirements, monitoring product by product and use buy use of those requirement. Create and manage contracts with labs and audit parties (CTC, Bureau Veritas, Intertek, Satra...). Writing/ implementation of care labels & instructions. Pack & packaging rules.Coding and follow up of products in data base. M3, Orlyweb.Visit the fairs that matter for the brand, Ispo, lineapelle, tranoi, première vision, IWA , made in France, Canton fair etc…Technical and commercial training on products for all sales people and clients. In sale meeting / fairs present sales pack, product benefits, homogenize vocabulary.

sourcing & production dept.Footwear development managmentREACh, CPSIA, GB standards managmentQuality: client relation, factory auditsEnvironment: Life cycle analisys, environmental impacts of products Innovation at workSocial: SA 8000, BSCI manager, audit reviews and follow up with factories

Implement quality procedures for the group around chemical compliance, that led into sourcing & audit activities.Partnership with labs (CTC, BV, Interteck....), definition of testing proceduresBe the referent for quality requirements for licences and customers

Develop and industrialize footwear in cycling BTWIN, tennis ARTENGO and trail running, KALENJI.Anticipate production, follow up on quality from the shop floors and write actions plans. Care labels and importation pack linked to the product.Lab and field testing