Bridget Foley
Head of Materials R&D, New Balance I Global Sourcing Specialist I US Manufacturing I Innovation & Sustainability I Product Creation & Design I Luxury Brands & Sportswear I Ralph Lauren, Nike, Gap & Estée Lauder Alumna
- Role
- Global Director Material Design & Development at New Balance
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bridget Foley
I am a product leader with 15 years of experience translating brand aesthetic and vision…
Experience
Global Director Material Design & Development
May 2022 — Present
Operationalize fabric platforming, the strategic process of standardizing and consolidating the selection of fabrics and suppliers across different product lines and styles. Leveraging fabric platforming, NB can invest in and manage stock levels in real-time and replenish inventory as needed to meet production requirements. Through fabric platforming, streamlined global material palette from 350 to 160 materials and prepositioned 80% of apparel fabrics to enable improved costing, delivery, and qualityRedesigned and implemented a new end-to-end material testing process and tracking platform ensuring consistent quality and communication between New Balance, suppliers, and testing labs – traveled to Asia to train and implement with 10 vendors. Rewrote and led the rollout out of a standardized companywide apparel materials testing manual
Education
Fashion Institute of Technology
BS
Fashion Institute of Technology
AAS
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