Production Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Significant leadership experience managing teams working in a fast paced environment.
• Experience traveling overseas to evaluate vendors and to determine areas of improvement.
• Supervise subordinates’ responsibilities to ensure accomplishment of department goals and deadlines.
• Promote the development of subordinates through supervision and training.
• Pro-actively approach problem solving.
• Implement operational efficiencies.
• Adapt quickly to changes.
• Driven by deadlines with a high sense of urgency.

Responsibilities

• Manage brand initiatives and goals.
• Control operations calendar deadlines and monthly book to dates.
• Control final allocations.
• Develop and maintain relationships with vendors to ensure successful business partnerships
• Analyze industry trends to proactively identify supply base issues to reduce cost, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit emerging opportunities that benefit the brand.
• Collaborate between stakeholders to create calendar and meet deadlines.
• Outline and communicate brand and category strategy based on Trend meeting.
• Improve adoption rates over specific time period and hit approved line plan style count measured by seasonal line plan actualization.
• Manage commitments and order placements.
• Calculate and manage rolling and final IMUs at order placement for variance IMU analysis.
• Strategize brand business opportunities including freight modes for distribution center receipt, flow, and margin opportunity.
• Manage product development and production process.
• Provide IMU targets and guidance to team to negotiate final costing with vendors ensuring margins are met or exceeded.
• Assess and develop staff. Build the appropriate team to ensure effective day to day management of each business group and accurate and readily available records and reports.
• Coach staff to generate creative solutions.
• Ability to lead change, and coach team to respond to a rapidly changing business environment.
• Coordinate and facilitate team to deliver aesthetically correct samples that meet brand’s vision.
• Facilitate team to maintain and manage the pre-production time and action and production work-in-process.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• PTO
• generous employee discounts
• retirement savings