Engineer, Commercialization, Footwear, Altra

The Footwear Commercialization Engineer is responsible for bringing VF owned brand footwear designs to life by engineering products for efficient manufacturability, lowest cost and highest quality and performance. Based on one of VF key manufacturing regions, within one or more of VF’s strategic vendors, this role serves as a critical liaison between the VF development and production teams, ensuring that product intent is maintained while meeting commercial and operational requirements.

You will work hands-on with factory and brand development teams, ensuring commercialization best practice feedback is captured early within the Product development cycle. As VF’s commercialization engineer, you will create in partnership with the vendor the extreme fit and wear test samples, conduct tooling reviews, and conduct pre-production trials (T4) to ensure product readiness to hand-off to VF production teams – ensuring VF’s high standards of quality, comfort and durability are maintaine...