Temporary Production Manager Free People

Anthropologie Weddings is seeking a temporary Production Manager to lead footwear production for Free People. The role manages sourcing strategy, product development, pre-production, production workflows, vendor relationships, costing, delivery, and team development while ensuring brand goals, margins, and deadlines are met.

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
• 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

Requirements:

• Significant leadership experience managing teams working in a fast paced environment
• Experience traveling overseas to evaluate vendors and to determine areas of improvement
• Ability to lead change, and coach team to respond to a rapidly changing business environment
• Pro-actively approach problem solving
• Implement operational efficiencies
• Adapt quickly to changes
• Driven by deadlines with a high sense of urgency