{"id":4084435,"url":"https://alion.io/job/vf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation","title":"Trims Manager, Material Operation","company":{"id":4213,"name":"VF Corporation","domain":"vfc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/vfc","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":69,"ghost_share":0.029,"stale_share":0.652,"repost_share":0.058,"time_to_fill_p50_days":47,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Singapore"],"countries":["SG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Airtable","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T18:32:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"ABOUT YOUR ROLE:\nWe are looking for a proactive and collaborative Manager, Trims & Material Operations, to lead the integrated trims and material operations agenda for Apparel Materials. This role combines trims category leadership with operational governance across fabrics and trims, and co-creates strategy, standards and ways of working with the wider Materials Sourcing team. The ideal candidate will bring strong trims and supplier knowledge, leadership experience, and a data-driven, solution-oriented mindset to deliver reliable development, consistent processes and measurable improvement.\nYOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:\nTrims Strategy & Brand Partnership\nAct as the primary trims contact for brand material development and product creation teams, providing a streamlined interface across Apparel Materials.\nTranslate seasonal product needs into trims category, supplier, development, and operational priorities.\nEnsure timely visibility of trims readiness, development status, risks, and resolution plans across key product milestones.\nTrims Development & Commercialization\nOversee commercialization progress across the full trims portfolio, and support where needed, e.g., testing and supplier coordination.\nEnsure trims meet aesthetic, technical, quality, compliance, sustainability, cost, and timing requirements.\nEstablish clear development standards, approval discipline, documentation, and system readiness across the trims portfolio.\nSupplier Management & Performance\nAct as a working-level contact for trims suppliers and track supplier KPIs, including quality, cost, delivery, service, innovation, sustainability, and risk.\nFollow up on corrective actions and support supplier performance reviews and improvement plans.\nSupport negotiation preparation and supplier onboarding.\nMaterial Operations Leadership\nOwn the operating rhythm for Apparel Materials KPI governance, including data integrity, process adherence, and leadership reporting across fabrics and trims.\nCo-create and standardize operating processes, roles, decision rights, tools, dashboards, and reporting to support one Apparel Materials way of working.\nEnsure accurate and timely tracking of development milestones, sample readiness, SMS and proto performance, Buy Ready status, and agreed service levels.\nSystems, Data & Process Excellence\nOversee the quality and use of operational tools and data sources, including Airtable, Trueview, PLM/Flex, scorecards, trackers, and dashboards.\nPartner with teams to simplify workflows, reduce manual work, strengthen data discipline, and improve decision support.\nLead root-cause reviews and improvement plans where performance, process adherence, or data quality falls below expectation.\nCross-Functional Risk & Decision Making\nPartner with Sourcing, Material Development, Material Quality, Planning, Costing, Material Library, and product teams to resolve risks and maintain service continuity.\nSurface capacity, lead-time, quality, compliance, cost, and supplier risks early, with clear owners and mitigation actions; balance cost, speed, and quality.\nConvert complex data and issues into clear decisions and recommendations.\nTeam Leadership & Capability Building\nLead, coach, and develop team members with clear goals, accountability, feedback, and development plans.\nBuild trims domain capability and operational excellence across the broader Apparel Materials team.\nFoster an inclusive, collaborative culture focused on ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement.\nWHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:\nTechnical & Functional Expertise\nTrims Knowledge: Strong knowledge of apparel trims, construction, manufacturing processes, testing, quality standards, and commercialization.\nSupplier Management: Skilled in managing trims supplier performance scorecards, cost and lead-time levers, capacity, risk, and improvement plans.\nSystems & Data: Strong understanding of material development milestones, PLM and workflow tools, operational KPIs, and data governance.\nExecution & Operational Focus\nStrong program and project management skills with disciplined follow-through.\nComfort working across multiple seasons, categories, suppliers, and changing priorities.\nData-oriented, solution-focused, and committed to process adherence and measurable improvement.\nCollaboration & Communication\nCross-Functional Partnership: Strong partnership skills across brand, product creation, sourcing, planning, quality, costing, library, and suppliers.\nInfluence & Negotiation: Strong negotiation, facilitation, and issue-resolution skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and external partners.\nCommunication: Clear, concise communicator who can turn complex operational data into recommendations.\nLeadership & People Management\nTeam Leadership: Ability to lead, coach, and develop a team.\nChange Leadership: Ability to lead teams through organizational and process change while maintaining service levels.\nDecision-Making: Sound judgement in balancing quality, cost, speed, sustainability, and supply risk.\nWHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:\nBeing a part of a movement that is Purpose led which enables us to have a positive impact on communities around the world, it gives greater meaning to the work we do.\nWorking with a team of diverse and sharp minds that work with an inclusive and global mindset because our differences are what make us stronger together.\nProviding you with the best in class, work environment, well-being policies and work place flexibility that is about helping you show up and lean into life with your whole self - emotionally, physically and socially.\nR-20261103-0042","description_format":"text","description_chars":5634,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Footwear","Apparel & Fashion Brands","Outdoor & Camping Gear"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T18:32:12Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T20:26:16Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/vf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/vf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T20:26:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":39924,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4213},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4213"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fvf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fvf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fvf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/vf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvf-corporation-trims-manager-material-operation"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4084435}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"vfc.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4084435},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}