• Offering fabric technology, sourcing, and sustainability services to brands/suppliers on a contract basis.• Analysed technical performance fabric failures, and suggested solutions and marketing wording to client on day rate.• Provided menswear garment supplier with price and performance sensitive fabric sourcing and customer specific seasonal sourcing on a project-by-project basis.• Working within a team of freelancers providing European factory and fabric sourcing for homeware brand, as well as ad-hoc technology, sustainability, and regulations advice on a day rate.• Developing fabric and sustainable verification process for menswear brand (including writing supplier manual), as well as consulting on sustainability strategy and ensuring market compliance on a day rate.• Managing fabric technology for outerwear, tailoring and jersey garment supplier on a day rate.• Fabric sourcing for a designer and small brands on a day rate.

• Responsible for sourcing & developing new fabrics within quality/aesthetic standards and price point, risk management, and supply chain mapping for all departments in both wovens and knits. • Participated and contributed to the new sustainable sourcing strategy and development of the sustainable product criteria (including verification, tracking and reporting process), as well as implemented a traceability framework. • Managed the switch of conventional to sustainable fabrics on volume lines, within price and lead time requirements, resulting in 20% sustainable products in AW19 and growth to 40% in SS20 ranges. • Trained and supported the supply base and internal teams on sustainable certification process, managed wet processor self-audits/database and promoted the switch to low impact production processes. • Worked to improve fabric performance, drove industry best practice, developed & maintained core fabric library and introduced technical submissions to set quality standards for bulk production. • Designed, developed and delivered a training course to educate internal teams on fabric production. • Kept abreast of material sustainability innovations and production processes, researched their commercial viability, and presented to internal teams. • Managed and developed junior team members within fabric team, and mentored other junior colleagues. • Supported Garment Technology team with bulk fabric technical issues and revised testing requirements to accommodate for changing business needs. • Represented New Look at trade fairs, as well as at external meetings and conferences.

• A garment supplier role covering Menswear outerwear and tailoring, responsible for offering strong, solo fabric technical support to both internal team and customers. • Provided expert knowledge of testing methods, interpretation of results and implementation of corrective action whilst demonstrating commercial awareness. • Sourced and presented sustainable fabrics to customers, promoting the switch to BCI cotton.• Modernised fabric procedures & maintenance records, including chemical due diligence, mill self-audits and fabric factory inspections. • Analysed product risk, problem solved technical issues and managed fabric critical path.

• A garment supplier role working across women’s woven and knitted fabrics on multi-product for the fast paced, high street market. • Managed all fabric, trim & garment testing, bulk fabric approvals and care labels in line with the critical path.

• Responsible for fabric sourcing and performance of woven and knits for Menswear and Womenswear, as well as leading the wear trial process and chemical due diligence programme. • Introduced the fabric library with fabric specs and technical performance, whilst monitoring and making improvements to core fabric performance. • Managed the critical path, alongside garment sample management and fitting process. • Introduced the tracking of fabric & fibre procurement and business mulesing figures. • Project managed Use Phase project in collaboration with Ecover and WRAP SCAP project. • Handled customer queries relating to sustainability and environmental factors within the supply chain.