Material/leather Manager

Aimed:

GERSON HENNEMANN

Cell phone +55-51-999******

Cell phone +86-139-****-****

Date of birth: 12/03/1971

Email: ****************@*****.***.**

Material Director or Senior Leather Manager in a Global footwear company. Professional that ready to lead all aspects of leather development, purchasing and usage within the Development and Sourcing stages.

Summary of Qualification and skills:

* Professional with 30 years’ experience in sourcing, development and application of leather for the footwear industry. I worked 11 years in Brazil & 19 years in China.

* Expert knowledge of global leather market with understanding of regional characteristics of the materials.

* Comprehension of the efficient implementation of each article for specific footwear product.

* Experienced to work at a branded footwear environment, handle the development, costing and manufacturing aspects of genuine leather materials.

* Specialist in Tannery Audit, which as result create a secure material supply chain & protect the main business aspects, such as quality, consistency, delivery and Brand reputation.

* Skilled at Shoe factories Audit.

* Experienced to handle/purchase 40 million sq.ft of leather material yearly.

* Insight in forecast project for specialty and long-lead-time with coordination to suppliers and merchandise.

* Skilled in organize and maintain suppliers database, materials database and swatch library, keep it up to date & include recent comments.

* Create and manage material cards & color windows for each article.

* Professional that familiar with shoe finishing types, procedures and applications.

* Experienced at organize the shoe finishing room.

* Comprehension of the EU and North American RSL (restrict substance) for the footwear industry.

* Familiar with chemical, physical & organoleptic material testing and approval procedures.

* Excellent connections in the leather and footwear world, that allows easy access to the information related to current and future market tendencies.

* Professional in fashion and trended material researches.

* Specialist that target to ensure, the product has best look, price and consistent quality.

* The understanding of leather market & pricing formation allows to efficiently negotiate with suppliers and as the result, constantly obtain best prices and material lead time.

* Handle leathers Development process from initial article idea until the sales samples.

* Experienced to build target focused, motivated, hardworking and engaged material team.

* Enthusiast that combine discipline with creativity at work. Happy to relocate worldwide.

Company: Aldo Group (Asia),

The ALDO Group is a Canadian retailer that owns & operates a worldwide chain of shoe stores. The company was founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972, where its remain today. It have 3,000 points of sale in over 100 countries. Employment time: 2 years, from December 2017 till December 2019. Application: Leather Manager

* Manager all Materials Leathers for the Aldo group, Aldo Ladies/Mens and APS.

* Managing the leathers from development to bulk manufacture.

* Sourcing new material and propose trend material to the designers.

* Setup quality and testing standards, color cards & color windows

* Work closely with material suppliers, proceed Audit and clarify terms of availability of materials and commercial competitiveness.

* Strengthen the mutual understanding between material suppliers, shoe factories, and customers to increase the partnership and create commitments.

* Coordinated to maintain material forecast projections for long-lead-time with suppliers and merchandise.

* Establish finishing room equipment & procedures.

* Managed a team of 4 members, Aldo Ladies, Aldo Mens, Aldo APS and finishing Support.

Company: Galaila International Company Ltd,

Galaila is a leading leather sourcing company, that began operations at 2011 and rapidly develop for last 6 years, with headquarter in HK and representative office & show room in DG. Company also have 2 warehouses one in HK and another in DG. Main tanneries that support the business are from Argentina, Italy and China partners. Employment time: 1 year, November 2016 to December 2017, Application: Leather Development & Technical Director

*Develop new products and trends to present to the brands and retails.

*Follow client development, assure the product are according expectation & delivery on time.

*Deal with all technical issue to solve and improve quality and article characteristics.

*Fix the standard quality with customers and factories.

*Follow production orders, delivery and quality according the standard.

*Track the production in the Shoe factory, guide for best material usage & solving problems.

*Commercial strategy of sales, marketing and company promotion for increasing company grows.

Company: Novi Footwear (Far East) Pte

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(www.novifootwear.com) has 30 years on the market with more than 400 employees in approximately 13 cities. It has Privet Label business with brands as Aldo, M&S, Bata, etc. Novi is part of the Wortmann Schuh Holding(www.wortmann.com) in Detmold, Germany own brands as Tamaris, Caprice, Marco Pozzi, Jana and S’ Oliver. In business year 2014/2015 Wortmann Group turnover was Euro 1.018 billion and sold 63.9 million pairs.

Employment time: August 2008 to December 20,2015 (7 years and 5 month) Application: Sourcing Leather Manager

*Work with Material suppliers to bring the best and innovation collection, was closer to the head of the brands presenting new material with analyses.

*Follow Trends with line-builders and designers, develop and introduce new articles, bring fashion looks, colors trends.

*Setup quality standards of each article for the suppliers.

*Operational management of leather quality system, from raw material supplier to customer door.

*Worked to build “supplier assessment" net. Manufactory Audit, which as a result provide secure supply chain, in order to protect the main business aspects as quality, delivery, reputation. I made Audit in following countries: Italy, Holland, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, china, Cambodia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Indonesia, India and Thailand.

*Coordinated to maintain material forecast projections for specialty and long-lead-time with suppliers and merchandise.

*Managed a team of 5 members, where ensure that each one is busy and challenged. Company: BKS leather Limited

(www.bksleather.net) established in 2004 as a joint venture between Australian-German and Russian investors, for the production of leather in China. Company has around 200 employers. Production occupies area of 9000 sq.m and has capacity to produce 1.500 sq.feet of leather per month.

Employment time: August 2004 to July 2008 ( 4 years and 1 month) Application: Sales Manager/Developer/Quality control

*Development and create new articles to the brands.

*Quality production control in Russian, China and Bangladesh.

*Commercialization of the leather to the brands.

*After sales service product follow up with manufactories and brands. Company: Inconline (India and China)

Leather sourcing, Supply Company in China and India. Employment time: April 2002 to August 2004

Application: Development manager and production quality control

* Development and create new articles to the brands.

* Quality production control in Indian and China.

* Sales service production follows up with the manufactory and brands. Company: J.A Wirth Ltda (Brazil) http://www.wirth,com.br/en Shoe manufactory that works since 1948, focus on ladies comfort footwear. Employment time: Start in 1999 up to 2001 (over 2 years) Application: Leather material development operational

* Follow up the leather development with suppliers.

* Control of material during the production with each supplier.

* Leather Material final inspection.

Company: Henrich & Cia. Ltda (Brazil) http://www.henrich.com.br Footwear factory found in 1954, major product ladies fashion shoes. Employment time: Start in 1991 up to 1999 (over 8 years) Application: Shoe finishing and Adhesive processes expert

* Responsible for the shoes product finishing look & quality.

* Control the adhesive process during the production. Company: CBC Couros & Acabamentos, Ltda (Brazil) http://www.cbccouros.com.br Tannery founded in 1985, processing cow hides to finishing articles. Specialized in top fashion leather articles.

Employment time: Start in 1989 up to 1991 (about 2 years) Application: R&D operational

*Control of operations and samples making process at R&D department.

Education:

International business Commerce, Logistic and Trade University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos - EAD (distant mode) Sao Leopoldo - RS - BR Study process in progress

Chemical Technologist - Modality Production of Leather Central University “Feevale” - Novo Hamburgo - RS - BR Completed by 17.03.2000

Focus on management, supervision and administration in material leather business.

Language:

Portuguese Native

English fluent speaker

Chines (Mandarin) oral communication at basic level Gerson Hennemann

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