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Industry, CA - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

At Hot Topic were passionate about creativity and high performance. Were also passionate about Pop case you hadnt noticed. Were looking for an Associate Production Manager (Contract) to partner with our Product Development team in bringing music and pop culture inspired fashion to life. Apparel production takes a village and youre known as the one thats able to bring it all together. The result: amazing product that our customers love.

This role operates on a hybrid schedule and will require to work from our HQ located in the City of Industry CA three days a week.

WHAT YOULL DO

    • Manage production process from design handoff to finished product develop and source fabrics yarns and trims; obtains approvals for fabric lab dip and trims ensure tech pack turnovers to sourcing partners; troubleshoot and come up with options to resolve issues in development/production and quality
    • Knit and Sweater development experience
    • Work closely with the merchant & product development team to ensure vision of product is achieved during the sourcing & production process & updating them regularly on deliveries and production issues
    • Partner with internal teams like import vendor relations and traffic teams to ensure inbound merchandise is properly coordinated for on time delivery
    • Work closely with the licensing team to obtain licensors comments in a timely manner to ensure on time delivery
    • Work with overseas vendors to monitor development and on time delivery
    • Source & start up new factory relationships; negotiate appropriate costs and deliverables with sourcing partners to ensure best margin and quality are achieved for our customers!
    • Work with your manager to identify styles that can be moved out of China and redevelop with NonChina vendors to offset the tariff increase
    • Renegotiate cost & delivery to present to buyers to issue POs based on the new country of origin
    • Work on collecting liability information for styles with COO China

WHAT YOULL NEED

    • 3 years product development experience in retail or wholesale working with overseas offices
    • Experience working on licensed product a plus
    • Organized great communicator and detail oriented proficient in Excel
    • Well versed in reviewing garment test reports
    • Sourcing manufacturing and costing wizard. You work your magic so much they call you the Harry Potter of PD & Production
    • An uptodate point of view on the latest trends & strategies in sourcing & production
    • Negotiation is your middle name
    • Team player you thrive in a team environment and are comfortable giving and receiving honest direct feedback

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type

Temp

Company Industry

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