 Source relevant woven, jersey, activewear, and denim fabrics strategically and promote those opportunities to designers and buyers. Attend global fabric exhibitions- Intertextile Shanghai, and Denim Expo Dhaka and visit mills to explore new product trends and technology. Identify and establish key fabric trends for the upcoming season, covering woven, denim, jersey, and activewear products. Partner with fabric suppliers globally to deliver highly innovative fabrics and provide technical support with design, product development, product integrity, and garment vendor partners. Coordinate meetings between mills, design, and product development as needed to find new fabric qualities and finishing techniques that hit time and action calendar requirements. Negotiate with fabric mills to secure the best fabric price. Risk assessing fabric suitability for performance, sustainability, provenance, and end to end use To deliver the technical strategy, follow the processes, policies, and standards. To carry out accurate and timely execution of fabric processes defined at the business organization level. Closely monitor the fabric mill's performance in terms of price, quality, lead time, and agreement for on time shipment. Manage and prepare key trend presentations for buying and design teams. Drive strategic seasonal cross costing projects on core programs globally. Management of digital and physical libraries Organize mill week twice in a year for newly developed fabric presentation from local and overseas mills Continuous coordination and follow up on fabric replacement and approvals with the team concerned.

 Source relevant fabrics strategically and promote those opportunities to designers and buyers. Identify and establish key fabric trends for the upcoming season covering woven, jersey, denim, and technical fabrics for the products of ladies', men's, and children’s wear. Actively source and manage the fabric supply base and expand the respective network in Bangladesh and overseas countries. Working with Bangladesh and overseas countries' renowned mills (China, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Korea, Turkey, and Brazil) Attend trade shows and visit mills to explore new product trends and technology. Provide technical guidelines to fabric mills to ensure fabric quality. Closely monitor the fabric mill's performance in terms of price, quality, lead time, and agreement for on time shipment. Manage and prepare key trend presentations for the UK buying and design teams. Work with product managers and merchandise teams to review and manage fabric costs as per targets. Drive strategic seasonal cross costing projects on core programs globally. Actively manage sourcing for critical paths. Plan and execute the establishment of new global sourcing routes. Monitor the execution of the day-to-day fabric sourcing requests for all territories from merchandising, design, NUK Fabric Sourcing and buying teams to ensure that they are completed on time. Advising and working with fabric mills to ensure the fabric quality standard at development stage to ensure correct bulk quality as per base approval. Tolerances for fabric performance at product development stages, updated by the technical and merchandising team. Liaising with the merchandising team and technical team for all types of fabric related issues. Working to maintain the fabric library to keep the right quality fabric for different product teams. Continuous coordination and follow up on fabric replacement and approvals with the concerns team.