Description
About the team:
Join our Global Clothing Technical team at Sainsbury's, working across UK and Asia to deliver safe, legal, and high-quality products for our Tu Clothing brand. We are a collaborative, innovative team committed to sustainability and excellence.
More about the role:
As Global Technical Manager, you will lead and define the global technical strategy for Tu Clothing. You will manage a team of technologists, ensuring products meet safety, legal, and quality standards. This role involves working cross-functionally to identify innovation opportunities and deliver sustainability commitments.
You will oversee supplier relationships, manage quality from development to production, and drive improvements in processes and standards to support business growth.
More about you:
You will bring extensive knowledge of clothing products, fabrics, and manufacturing processes, alongside strong leadership and communication skills. You can coach and develop global teams, make timely decisions under pressure, and collaborate effectively across departments.
A passion for quality, sustainability, and customer focus is essential, as is the ability to travel internationally and work with diverse suppliers.
Essential criteria:
* Extensive clothing product and fabric knowledge
* Experience in technical roles within clothing
* Strong leadership and team management skills
* Ability to travel internationally and manage supplier relationships
* Familiarity with UK legislation and compliance requirements
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Responsibilities
Joining the team at Argos, you'll find yourself at the forefront of UK retail, in a brand that is loved by millions of customers across the country. Argos is a market leader in the general merchandise sector, with the third most visited retail website and a market leading same day delivery and click&collect service. Whether it's working across our amazing owned-brands of Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, or working with the biggest global consumer brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox or Samsung, we have a breadth of opportunity to nurture your career. With roles across Buying, Merchandising, Design, Technical, or Commercial Planning or Operations, we have teams that always strive to make amazing product to delight our customers. The Argos Commercial teams work closely with many other functions across the business like Digital, Marketing, Retail and Logistics to deliver for our customers, allowing you to develop connections and learn from teams across the business. Development is important to us and you'll have the full support of your line manager in developing and growing your skill set and aiding your career aspirations.
Qualifications
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.
Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).