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France

-Managing sales for Wovens and Elastic Yarns for Italy, USA, Portugal, Greece, Israël, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Tunisia, Egypt, South Africa, Slovenia, Croatia,-Provide innovations, solutions and support customers for technical requiries and quality-Direct connection with factories to develop fabrics and yarns to meet the customers needs-Textile Engineer/Fabric and yarn developer-Provide solutions for tomorrow's next challenges for the textile industry-Provide solutions to build the most functional products on the market in Sports, Medical and Fashion

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

-Source and develop fabrics and new materials with suppliers, following the design vision -Explore new fabrics and concepts to improve quality and design of Lululemon products, propose new concepts using new technologies -Ensure materials quality is following Lululemon standards-Improve the standards to ensure the quality of final product following its lifecycle -Ensure mills capabilities -Ensure the price target, and negotiate following a business plan-Collaborate with sustainability partners to ensure all the supply chain is following Lululemon requirements (environment and human)-Communicate daily with the suppliers-Participate to technical and design textile fairs as Premiere Vision or ISPO-Work on site regularly (2 weeks per quarter) including Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Fabric development with suppliers answering to marketing specifications, production monitoring, quality monitoring and colors developmentNew fabrics developed together with suppliers in R&D and improvement of current ranges fabrics

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Textile Sciences And Engineering

-Textiles: fibers, filature, finish, woven, knit and non-woven -Polymer science, materials chemistry and physical properties -Quality.

Bachelor’S Degree, Textile Sciences And Engineering

Bachelor Performance Sport Textiles and Footwear: -Research and Development and innovation of products -Textile bases.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering

-Mechanical conception, structure dimensioning, material resistance -Production management, quality control, industrial maintenance

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Education record