POSITION SUMMARY & KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Within a short time frame of 6 years, Fashion for Good has established itself as the go-to platform for sustainable fashion innovation on a global level. As we are entering our next phase of growth, we seek an Innovation Manager who, together with their team, will be responsible for driving the strategy and scaling of innovations, with a focus on processing solutions, across the fashion supply chain.

Key Responsibilities: 

Reporting to the Innovation Platform Director - Scaling, the role has several components;

Crafting and driving roadmap to scale for key processing innovations 

• Working with selected innovators to create a deep understanding of the innovator’s commercial, technology and impact attractiveness, Identify relevant gaps and drive assessments to ensure in-depth understanding and due diligence.

• Leading the roadmaps to scale for a selected portfolio of processing innovations supported by Fashion for Good. These roadmaps outline the areas for support such as unlocking access to capital, providing manufacturing markets expertise and curating market linkages. This role orchestrates all of the actions needed to implement the roadmap and create a catalytic effect for scaling innovations.
  

• Ideating and driving various initiatives that further unlock the innovator's scaling journey and address key challenges via Strategic Supplier Initiatives, financing initiatives and collaborations with various external organisations. Working closely with Fashion for Good partners where relevant to collaboratively develop projects for scaling support.
  

• Curating best-practices and toolbox to further drive implementation.

Relationship management across all stakeholders

• Building and maintaining relationships with Fashion for Good corporate partners (brands, retailers and manufacturers), their strategic supply chain as well as relevant ecosystem partners and experts. In addition, establish and manage relationships with leadership teams of the innovators in your portfolio.

• Leveraging existing partnerships to develop new offerings and strategic initiatives that drive future organisational growth and attract further partnerships.

• Support in developing and executing the strategic direction for the Scaling team and Innovation Platform as a whole.
• Maintain data and report on metrics regarding innovator scaling, including demonstration and tracking of KPIs; advancing key impact and progress visualisations (e.g. funnel, metrics dashboard).
• Support the Innovation Platform Director with cross-functional topics such as Innovation Committee, Partner Strategy Day, FFG Symposium, Supervisory Board meetings.

Team leadership

• Manage innovation associates/analysts/interns by supporting them in managing various scaling activities.
• Be responsible for their personal development and training as well as bi-annual evaluation process.
• Manage communication and collaborations with the cross-functional teams.

The Innovation Manager plays a bridging function between the innovators, Fashion for Good’s partners (brands, retailers and manufacturers), investors/financiers, and NGOs.