Associate Product Manager, Product Development & PLM
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Job Location:
Carlsbad, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Associate Product Manager Product Development & PLM plays a pivotal role in ensuring efficiency accuracy and scalability across the apparel product lifecycle from concept through production. This role is responsible for maintaining and evolving the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform overseeing the quality and governance of Product Master Data supporting operational reporting and partnering closely with cross-functional teams including Design Materials Product Development Technical Design Sourcing and Production.
You will act as a key liaison between business functions and technical teams to ensure that tools data and processes work seamlessly to enable speed-to-market improve product data accuracy and drive operational excellence.
This position blends process optimization systems expertise and data stewardship; ideal for someone passionate about the intersection of technology product creation and operational data management.
What youll get to do:
- Define and prioritize PLM enhancements configurations and workflows that improve user experience and support product development initiatives.
- Partner with functional teams to understand evolving business needs and translate them into scalable PLM solutions.
- Lead the requirements gathering process develop functional specifications and collaborate with technical teams for implementation.
- Identify process gaps and recommend improvements that reduce manual work increase product master data accuracy and improve visibility across the product lifecycle.
- Act as a trusted liaison between business and engineering to ensure alignment on priorities and timelines.
- Troubleshoot issues coordinate with engineering and support and ensure smooth day-to-day system performance.
- Partner with Data Governance team to define data standards attributes and ownership models.
- Maintain data integrity and alignment of product master data with downstream systems (e.g. ERP PIM).
- Coordinate and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and communicate changes effectively to business partners.
- Support day-to-day operational reporting needs using PLM and BI tools
- Ensure alignment and accuracy between PLM and reporting systems.
- Provide responsive day-to-day support for end users troubleshooting issues and ensuring adoption of best practices.
- Develop and maintain user documentation SOPs and training guides.
- Lead new user onboarding and training sessions for feature rollouts or process changes.
Qualifications :
Who you are:
- Bachelors degree in Business Information Systems or a related field or equivalent years of experience preferred.
- 3 years of experience in business analysis or system support within apparel footwear or retail product development.
- Strong hands-on experience with PLM (Centric PLM FlexPLM Bamboo Rose)
- Proficiency with reporting tools (e.g. MicroStrategy Tableau Power BI).
- Understanding of end-to-end apparel product lifecycle processes including design material development costing sourcing and production
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and data accuracy.
- Proven ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
Additional Information :
Our investment in you:
At Vuori were proud to offer the following to our employees:
- Health Insurance
- Savings and Retirement Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness & Fitness benefits
The salary range for this role is $100900 per year - $129780 per year.
Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
About Company
Vuori is re-defining what athletic apparel looks like: built to move and sweat in but designed with a casual aesthetic to transition into everyday life. We draw inspiration from an active coastal California lifestyle; an integration of fitness, creative expression, and life. We aim to ... View more
