Fitting Model (Footwear)
- Hanoi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate with Footwear Technicians, Product Developers and Designers to evaluate fit, comfort, and performance of footwear during prototypes, sales samples, approval samples, grading tests and production stages.
- Partner to Footwear Technicians for new last e new construction development, assessment, and correction.
- Provide honest and constructive feedback on the fit, comfort, style, and quality of the footwear product.
- Identify and provide any issues or defects with the footwear fit.
- Follows instructions on how to fit and wear the footwear.
- Maintain a professional and cooperative attitude during fitting sessions.
- Maintain foot care.
- Update and maintain detailed fitting approval records.
- Be reliable, punctual, professional, and courteous with workmates, customers, and suppliers.
- Must have a foot shape that is representative of average customer. The candidate is required to send her foot measurement and photograps to support the selecting purpose.
- Standard shoe size that matches the footwear company and designer's target market: US 6B.
- Length: 230 mm
- Width: 79-82 mm
- Ball girth: 218 mm
- Be able to stand and walk for long periods of time.
- Good sense of style and fashion.
- Good eye, detail-oriented with a passion for quality and craftsmanship.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to try on different types of footwear and provide feedback: dress, casual, high heels, flats, ballets, pumps, sandals, booties, boots, sneakers, jellies, flip flop, vulcanized, injected, etc.
- Drives for results; understands needs of the business and executes with excellence.
- Motivated, energized.
- Adaptable to the changing needs of the business.
- Excellent organizational and record-keeping skills with attention to detail.
- Passion and enthusiasm for footwear products.
- Flexible schedule and availability for fitting sessions.
- Adaptable to different types of footwear and working environments.
- Available to travel to Service Providers (suppliers)
- Can well-communicate in English, both written and spoken.
- Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Prior experience as a Footwear Fitting Model or similar role is a plus.
- Experience working in a global or multi-cultural environment is a plus.
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.