Fabric Development Manager: Global Sourcing & Design

URBN; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Employee discounts

PTO and retirement savings

Job summary

Anthropologie, part of URBN, is seeking an Associate Manager of Fabric to drive fabric sourcing and development in alignment with Design’s vision across global markets. You will coordinate with U.S. home offices, HK fabric office, and mills to maintain a unified communication line and support brand objectives.

Reporting to the Fabric Director, Urban Outfitters, the role requires strong textile expertise, PLM proficiency, and ability to manage fabric calendars and libraries across teams.

Qualifications

• Textile/fashion degree.
• 7–10 years of textile experience.
• Textile technical knowledge.
• PLM, MICROSOFT EXCEL, POWERPOINT, GOOGLE DOCS, PHOTOSHOP/ILLUSTRATOR.

Responsibilities

• Help facilitate mill meetings and mill days.
• Work with design and PD on all fabric development and sampling needs.
• Attend weekly fabric meetings to receive fabric development and sample yardage requests.
• Follow up on fabric requests from design with suppliers.
• Maintain fabric chart with ready dates and report to design and PD teams in weekly meetings.
• Maintain the fabric library.
• Maintain PLM with fabric POs.

Skills

Textile technical knowledge

Fabric development coordination

Education

Textile/fashion degree

Tools

PLM

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Google Docs

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

Anthropologie, part of URBN, is seeking an Associate Manager of Fabric to drive fabric sourcing and development in alignment with Design’s vision across global markets. You will coordinate with U.S. home offices, HK fabric office, and mills to maintain a unified communication line and support brand objectives.

Reporting to the Fabric Director, Urban Outfitters, the role requires strong textile expertise, PLM proficiency, and ability to manage fabric calendars and libraries across teams.