Senior Manager, Calendar & Operations Integration
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Calendar & Operations Integration serves as a strategic leader and key cross-functional liaison for Design and Merchandising. The role develops, manages, and optimizes the end-to-end seasonal Design and Merchandising product creation calendar, operational processes, and planning frameworks that support successful product launches, Go-to-Market execution, and on-time product delivery. The role oversees calendar strategy, milestone management, and process governance across all product categories. It ensures organizational alignment, proactively identifies risks and dependencies, and leads initiatives to improve speed, efficiency, accountability, and transparency throughout the product lifecycle. Success requires strong leadership, organizational influence, strategic thinking, and the ability to navigate complex cross-functional environments while driving operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in Project Management, Product Operations, Product Development Operations, Calendar Management, or related functions within fashion, retail, footwear, accessories, or consumer products.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, product creation processes, and Go-to-Market execution.
- Experience managing complex cross-functional calendars and critical-path timelines.
- Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Experience with PLM and project management platforms such as Centric, FlexPLM, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira, or similar tools.
- Strong communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated success leading process improvement and organizational change initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, maintenance, and communication of the seasonal product creation calendar across all product categories.
- Align key milestones, deliverables, and Go-to-Market timelines across Design and Merchandising.
- Maintain visibility into critical-path activities and proactively identify risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.
- Drive calendar adherence.
- Serve as the primary liaison between cross-functional teams, ensuring transparency, alignment, and accountability throughout the product lifecycle.
- Facilitate cross-functional milestone meetings to support timely decision-making and issue resolution.
- Ensure teams align on next steps before meetings conclude, distribute timely recaps, and track action items through completion.
- Partner with senior leadership to manage competing priorities and align business objectives with operational execution.
- Translate complex workflows, dependencies, and timelines into actionable plans that support successful product launches.
- Identify opportunities to improve product creation processes, workflows, and ways of working.
- Develop and maintain operational standards, documentation, and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Lead initiatives to increase efficiency, speed-to-market, and organizational effectiveness.
- Support change management and drive adoption of new processes, on-time delivery practices, systems, and tools.
- Monitor and report progress against seasonal milestones and track key performance indicators related to calendar adherence and operational effectiveness.
- Prepare and communicate status updates, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
- Partner with Operations and Technology teams to enhance calendar management and reporting capabilities and improve status visibility.
- Establish governance processes that promote accountability, visibility, and continuous improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
