Founded in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, Burberry is a global luxury brand with a distinctly British attitude. We are a global business with an extensive network of both owned and franchised stores across EMEIA, Asia Pacific and Americas. We are digital pioneers, and innovative technology underpins every aspect of our business, from product design to distribution and marketing. We believe that modern luxury means being socially and environmentally responsible; this mindset is core to our business and key to our long-term success.

The role will be responsible for technically managing, defining and drafting work cycles from development to production start-up. The purpose is to create a master design for luxury bags and validate it from development to production start-up, oversee the industrialisation of the processes and of the products.

• Define the range of type of workings and operations needed for product tuning.
• Carry out the engineering of the models to assure correct production times and costs in compliance with the quality standards required by the Company.
• Interfacing with Plant Product Development, Pattern Making, Prototyping, Production and Quality teams to create a technical end to end process flow.
• Manage aesthetical and qualitative requests in a continuous improvement perspective.
• Manage Technical inspectors for the external groups' industrialization.
• Manage the identification of the different assembly options to fulfil product/market requirements.
• Perform time and methods analysis.
• Implement new processes with a continuous improvement perspective.
• Coordinate the prototype industrialisation activities both inside and outside (external suppliers) the Company.

• Technical degree/prototyping experience.
• Significant experience at a leather goods processing plant.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing processes (preferable).
• Knowledge of office package and mastering three-dimensional cad usage.
• Industrialisation, production and quality and ability to work as part of a team.
• Passionate about leather goods development and production.
• Team management experience.
• Fluent in english.

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

Posting Notes: Italy || Not Applicable || Florence || Supply Chain || Supply Chain || n/a ||