Senior Specialist - LightSpray Footwear Creation Manager

In short

The LightSpray Footwear Creation Manager will collaborate with innovation, product creation, and manufacturing teams to shape the future of On's product line by implementing workflows and operationalizing the creation of new footwear products. This role is responsible for collaborating and planning the fabrication of footwear samples within the product creation organization.

Your Mission

• Align sample fabrication with company strategy, Interface with key stakeholders to collect and manage incoming footwear sample requests across all business units.
• Provide visibility to delivery expectations, resource constraints, and processes to stakeholders through project management skill sets and continuous communication.
• Oversee the product creation process workflow, ensuring the cadence of deliverables and needs are met on time.
• Coordinate and oversee the sample creation process, Ensure that all scheduled footwear samples are created successfully and on time throughout all creation and commercialization stages.
• Closely collaborate with operational teams to schedule footwear sample fabrication as well as manage calendars and workload based on technical proficiency and availability
• Oversee the sample creation process: Verify that all materials are ready and that all stakeholders are informed and available at the right time.
• Align with development teams to understand product requirements.
• Align with the production team to understand and validate manufacturability of development projects.
• Assist operations teams and commercialization teams to ensure products reach mass manufacturing readiness in accordance with manufacturability and quality standards.
• Work closely with the innovation, product creation, engineering, manufacturing, and leadership teams to create an environment of interdisciplinary collaboration and drive the development of innovative prototypes.
• Create and update the processes for sample operations to ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders involved.
• Forge strong connections with our manufacturing and development partners across Asia, actively participating in the assurance of successful information transfer strategies, and fostering a collaborative cross-border working relationship.
• Demonstrate expertise in fabricating and assembling footwear. This includes, but is not limited to, upstream material and component suppliers of components and timelines associated with sample fabrication.

Your story

• 5+ years of business operations/project management experience - footwear & innovation experience preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree in business operation, project management, or another relevant field preferred
• Ability to identify process issues and offer solutions to improve functionality and efficiency
• Proven ability to lead process creation and process improvement while continuing to run the business
• Excellent communication skills and comfort adapting communication style between engineers, designers, line operators, leaders, and cross-functional non-product creation partners
• Ability to work independently on several projects simultaneously requiring both focus and ownership in an dynamic, unclear environment
• Exemplify a high tolerance for ambiguity and solution-focused attitude
• Travel up to 10% of the time

What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

• Step One

  It starts with you...

  You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

• Step Two

  Interview with a recruiter

  What ignites your spirit? This is where we’ll start getting to know all about you and what makes you tick – and it’s your first chance to get a feel for our culture. Chatting with a member of our talent team, you’ll learn more about On and how we work. We’ll learn about what motivates you and what you could bring to the team.

• Step Three

  Interview with a hiring manager

  Ready to dig into the details? This second interview will be held with your future manager and will focus on the specifics of the job. Together you’ll delve into your unique skills and experiences and how they could be relevant at On. It's also a time to assess how you might feel working side-by-side. Bring any questions you have about the job, the team or anything else you might like to know – this is an open forum.

• Step Four

  The Case Study

  What's your style? This task will help us understand how you think, face a challenge and give insight into your novel ideas. Designed to give everyone their best shot, your case study is based on something you might typically experience on the job. This is your chance to show us what you’ve got. So express yourself. Be you.

• Step Five

  The Experience Day

  Your first taste of the Oniverse. This is a time to meet some of the people you'll be working closest with. In person or virtually, you'll get a feel for the day-to-day at On and the people who make it happen. You'll chat with a few potential teammates - the conversations will be as equally driven by the role and your experience as by our values. We believe how you do things is just as important as what you do.

• Step Six

  The Result

  Are we a good fit? We’ll get together internally to share our feedback and decide if we’re a match. We know that job searching is a big time investment, so it’s not a decision we take lightly. It’s also time for you to reflect on the experience – are we the right place for you? No matter the outcome, we’ll give you meaningful feedback.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.