Creative Sourcing Manager, Product Design

at  Pandora Jewelry

Are you an innovative, curious and creative person, who loves to research and find new opportunities to put your jewelry knowledge and experiences into use? Then you will love being a part of our Creative Sourcing team where we discover and develop captivating new inspirations and materials.
As our new Creative Sourcing Manager, you will work closely with the Design team by delivering new ideas of materials and techniques into the process that achieve the Creative Vision, cost and quality and which are aligned with our brand DNA. You will manage the sourcing and development process of your own projects, and be the main point of contact between the designers, the development teams and the suppliers with a demonstrated creative ability to translate the requirements of the business and execution of design brief into the sourcing process.
You will hold a pivotal role in leading innovative and creative ideas and initiatives, by understanding the creative vision and driving advancements within our organization’s material landscape. Your primary responsibility is to identify, initiate, oversee, and monitor medium to long-terms materials & techniques ideas in collaboration with the Design team, our suppliers, start-ups, and various business functions.
You will join the Creative Sourcing team whose mission is to identify new materials or new manufacturing processes, evaluate them, and support the most promising opportunities in order to develop applications within our ecosystem that support the Creative vision and transformation of our products collections.

BUILDING INTERNAL KNOWLEDGE:

• Researching and comparing new materials, solutions, processing technologies to improve knowledge and material library, ensuring that the database is properly organized and updated. Support to maintain the physical material library as well as the digital one.
  You might be the person we are looking for if you have strong skills in sourcing, development, production process, understanding of cost and executing on new materials and techniques within jewelry or beyond. You have a creative, collaborative working style with Designers and proposing new creative materials and techniques ideas is a strength of yours. Furthermore, you are proactive and organised in offering new ideas as well as removing obstacles.
  We imagine that you are a team player, humble, patient and flexible with an ambitious attitude. At the same time, you excel in building solid relations at all levels of the organisation, across functions and members of the ecosystem, working smoothly with international colleagues. You thrive in a dynamic, changing and fast-paced environment and have the ability to being independent, maintaining your structured workstyle and your attention to details under these conditions.

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