Sr. Product Engineer (Handbag)

Coach is a global fashion house founded in New York in 1941. Inspired by the vision of Creative Director Stuart Vevers and the inclusive and courageous spirit of our hometown, we make beautiful things, crafted to last—for you to be yourself in.

Coach is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

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Primary Purpose

Technically accountable throughout the stages of product development and commercialization to ensure that our product is properly constructed to interpret Coach’s Design intent and consequently manufactured to Coach’s high quality standards.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Product Development to...

• Participate in milestone DC review. Address construction concerns, follow up on mockup making in sample room. Ensure mockups match design and construction intent.
• Provide engineering support for mockup reviews. Offer comments and collaborate with sample room on specific constructions for hand feel. Determine filler usage…
• Clarify construction issues for NY team when needed. Contribute and propose when needed.
• Track milestone sample proceedings. Ensure sample construction aligns with review comments. Adjust and record for next rounds.
• Build and follow up on initial Best Practices for specific constructions until commercialization. Share with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with PD to review PA samples when there are construction difficulties or need for engineering knowledge.
• Analyze store claims and find root cause and provide guidance for SPs.
• Support outsourcing applications when PD team has supplier difficulties. Assess machine limitations and inform PD team.
• Review new materials. Provide opinions/concerns based on experience. Review material performance during sample making and recap concerns to PD team.
• Collaborate with HW team on new developments. Provide usage info, review blueprints, offer relevant thickness details, ensure proper fit. Test HW functionality and assembly.
• Review test results with PD managers. Manage product testing results on development samples. Provide solutions for failures and share with relevant teams.
• Check and adjust patterns for development milestones. Archive final patterns and ensure match PA samples and meet our COH pattern format standards.
• Have a cost-conscious mindset and provide cost-effective construction proposals.

The accomplished individual will possess...

• Must have extended knowledge on paper pattern ( CAD is not required)
• Must know handbag manufacturing with extensive sampling experience & mentor juniors.
• Exceptional creativity to solve complex problems and lead problem-solving efforts.
• Might require travelling to different cities/countries -
• Good English language skill
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment with multi-cultural members.
• Good aesthetic sense of leather goods.
• Teamwork
• Communications
• Initiative/Pro-activeness

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Coach is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Coach at www.coach.com.