Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong attention to detail and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; Adobe Suite is a plus., Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships with suppliers and team members., Thorough understanding of garment construction and surface design, along with a broad knowledge of the design and production process., Ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and adapt to evolving business needs..

Key responsabilities:

Manage and administer the production of products across all categories, ensuring quality and timely delivery.

Collaborate with design, buying, garment tech, and logistics teams to ensure high-quality product delivery.

Oversee product development tasks including sample management, fabric testing, and factory planning.

Negotiate prices and manage purchase orders, production calendars, and supplier relationships.

Job description

This is a remote position.

Job Highlights:

Contract type: Independent Contractor
Work Schedule: 40 hours a week - Monday to Friday; 8am to 5pm NSW, AU time

Responsible for managing and administering the production of products across all categories, ensuring standards are maintained and delivered through product quality, price, and manufacturing processes. Ensuring consistencies across the entire collection while maintaining timely delivery of products into retail stores and wholesale customer accounts.

Work closely with design, buying, garment tech, and logistics teams to ensure high-quality products are delivered and price architecture for bulk is in line with company expectations and parameters.
Product development including sample management, approving lab dips, fabric testing, fit comments, grading, organizing care labels, ordering barcodes and trims, and factory planning.
Sourcing new factories and ensuring factory audits are carried out, as well as managing new supplier onboarding.
Managing repair returns trackers with online and wholesale partners.
Negotiate prices, delivery dates, and minimum order quantities on raw materials, samples, and finished goods, ensuring profit margins are met.
Raise purchase orders for finished goods and send out order confirmations to vendors to secure deliveries.
Manage the production and development calendars, ensuring key deadlines are met.
Manage the production supplier and artwork manual.
Coordinate production from a surface design perspective (manage surface designer, chase patterns, and oversee handovers to factories).
Review inventory ledger against purchase orders to ensure accurate bulk deliveries (occasional scanning of bulk when needed).
Oversee production trackers and ensure they are kept up to date.
Manage pattern makers’ priorities and workflows, ensuring high-quality products and streamlined communication with factories.
Create and hand over care labels and barcodes to factories.
Communicate and hand over assets to the wholesale agent. Oversee the arrival, receipt, and dispatch of bulk goods to international partners, including generating international packing lists as per wholesale order confirmations. Prepare order confirmations for international partners.
Manage all invoices from development to production stages.
Conduct cross-quote comparisons for bulk goods logistics and book goods for pickup.
Report directly to the General Manager and work closely with the Creative Director to ensure the design vision is executed.
Oversee and implement sustainable business milestones.

What You Can Bring to the Role:

Strong attention to detail.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Adobe Suite is an advantage).
Excellent communication skills and ability to build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and team members.
Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
Thorough understanding of garment construction and surface design.
Broad knowledge of the design and production process with the ability to implement processes to streamline operations independently.
Passion for sustainability.
Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Ability to combine creative and technical skills.
Strong collaboration skills, working closely with team members and the Creative Director.
Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
Flexibility to adapt to evolving business needs.