Russ Hollowell

Vietnam based Sourcing Expert - Footwear and Accessories Development and Production Management Specialist building in region support for multiple brands; specialising in development, sustainability, mould engineering, last and material development, costing, create to value, vendor selection and onboarding, quality, production and order management, recruitment, culture building, and leadership.

Responsible for the development and brand direction for multiple bard portfolio's within the Innolux portfolio, creating a skilled and empowered team to deliver to short time line development and grow brand revenue

Responsible for on-time development and delivery of product to brand partners across 3 global brands to ensure seasonal product ranges, delivered to cost, quality, and design direction to short calendar lead times.

Identifying and driving areas of process improvement to elevate the materials team in the eyes of the cross functional teams; establishing key touch points in the development calendar and creating a ‘Materials First’ mindset. Removing the obstacles from the teams day to day, to enable a proactive rather than reactive working environment. Embedding key margin enhancement and Materials Excellence programs into the mindset of the team to create a department that is the ‘Expert partner of Choice’, producing a business less complex, and more cost effective, increasing margin and providing newness ahead of the season. Creating new SOP for the department to hit BU initiatives, fully utilising all company objectives. Coaching junior team members to add stretch to their skill set, identifying and removing roadblocks to be the best we can be.

2012-2013 Design Manager Men's 2010-2012 Head of Children's Design 1990-2010 Senior Children's Designer. I have held Senior positions within Clarks International, leading winning teams of designers to produce year on year record breaking growth. Identifying the need for materials and product consolidation to increase the complexity of the business, and create effective and efficient work streams to enable the teams to be the best they can be. Creative and Collaborative thinker I have carried out projects to create extra revenue streams in Men's, Originals, Sports and kids product.