1. Position Summary:

Fashion Pre-Sales Consultant is a key contributor in promoting and implementing Lectra’s Fashion offers for our prospects and customers through demos and trials. The Consultant supports the sales teams in selling our fashion solutions through his contribution during the presales process, demonstrates the benefit of our solutions and pilots the implementation.

2. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The first responsibility of the Fashion Pre-Sales Consultant is to collect information to properly prepare and run demos and trials and analyses results.

The Pre-Sales Consultant for fashion is responsible for

Fashion CAD: Pattern CAD, Cloud-based automatic nesting solution
Fashion Valia: section planning (automatic marker ratio) and the cut order planning and cutting room automation solution

He / she supports the Sales team in the qualification of the project opportunity and the definition of the proposal to answer customer requests during the pre-sales stage.

Acting as a technical and hands on project lead, the Pre-Sales Consultant pilots the SW installation and deployment and ensures an on-site customer support (start of production, customers’ acceptance tests, solution configuration, ramp-up support).

Finally, he / she prepares and provides training to end-users and assesses acquired competencies. He / she also designs workshops to address issue or to identify potential improvements (productivity, yield, performance, quality, etc.)

3. EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

Ideal Candidate: At least more than 2 year of Product Development (Pattern making) Working Experience as a Pattern Maker, preferably in fashion brands or/and fashion OEM/ODM. ( or at least Technical Designer)
Bachelor degree in Fashion School: overseas fashion school graduate is a plus point.
IT, Business, management or any related discipline will be a strong plus.
5 years or above fashion industry working experience will be a minimum, among which, 3 years direct relevant solution consultancy experience will be ideal. Experience in Fashion Industry will be preferred, along with the number of different positions occupied covering different levels of the product lifecycle management (Line Planning, Costing, Creation, Pattern design, Manufacturing, Sourcing…)

4. POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

MUST: Fashion Brand & Manufacturing Working Process Knowledge ( Design, Product Development (Sample,Pattern making ), Industrialization ( Nesting), Sourcing, Manufacturing)
Ability to install, implement and configure full integrated, technological and complex solutions.
Capability to identify customer's information needs and provide a solution in terms of services configuration or IT integration.
Capability to share & transfer relevant knowledge upon people needs, both in terms of technical & tactical skills.
Capability to define and manage the business goals and scope of change initiatives.
Capability to investigate, evaluate, analyse and classify data
Capability to understand and work with various Operating Systems and programming languages as well as networks
Industry knowledge in Fashion Industry, in terms of strategy, business evolutions & challenges and common operational issues.
Ability to synthetize and communicate clear messages, adapted & targeted to the different audiences they address.
Good organizational skills.
Real team player.
Good critical thinking, reasoning, evaluating (profitability/risk), problem solving, decision making, analysing.
Adaptability to various situations, cultures, technical environments.
Good business Acumen.

5. TRAVEL:

The position is based in Seoul but overseas business trips are required.