Women’s Speciality Knits, Fleece and Sweaters

Womens Performance and Active (May 2023 - Present)

Womens Outerwear and Woven Bottoms (June 2020 - April 2023)

o Drive communication between cross functional teams and Asia vendors to provide costing guidance to ensure financial targets and merchandise strategies are met

o Lead strategic initiatives to drive responsiveness in the business and reduce production lead times

o Proactively flash cost and cost engineer all styles at the beginning of each season to solve for any cost, quality or bulk production challenges

o Manage timeline and seasonal bookings to ensure product is delivered on time

o Successfully hired, trained, and managed a direct report where I provide coaching, guidance, and performance reviews

Maintaining responsibilities from previous role in addition to:

o Owner of all knitwear fabrics - leverage fabrics across categories to help negotiate costs to ensure IMU goal of 75% is met

o On average manages 80-100 styles per season

o Oversee entire development process through delivery to fulfillment center

o Manage and track purchase orders to ensure on time and in full

o Understanding of fabric duties and tariffs

o Travel to China to meet with vendors, oversee production and proto sample execution

o Act as a category costing expert in meetings offering expertise and on demand costing options

o Create cost targets for all styles before tech packs are sent and engineer all garments upfront to

ensure IMU goals are met

o Manage development WIP including T&A proto tracking, sample management, fabric and costing

o Understand and negotiate component costing for all styles

o Strong verbal and written communication with domestic & overseas vendors

o Work closely with our designers and buyers to create successful product while accomplishing IMU

goal in line with company target

o Assist the Product Manager with the creation of assortment and the development of a category

o Work closely with cross functional teams to review product details to ensure product execution

o Provide clear communication to vendor partners daily as it relates to product design and development to ensure execution of assortment

o Product Lifecycle Management Software (PLM)

o Maintain knowledge base of industry and competitor market trends

o Support and assist the Product Manager in driving overall direction and performance of category or department