Rag & Bone
Product Manager, Men's RTW
New York, NY - Full Time
rag & bone is looking for a Development and Production Manager to manage the development through production execution of the Men’s RTW business. The PM will partner with Design and Merchandising to be the conduit for communicating out Design’s seasonal styles, concepts and techniques into saleable garments while simultaneously achieving the categories’ IMU goals and timeline. The PM will oversee and develop the Product Management Associate’s skill sets.
Responsibilities:
Development & Production
Costing Management
Requirements
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Responsibilities:
Development & Production
- In partnership with VP of Development and Production, build department development calendar
- Communicate out key dates and deadlines to cross functional partners and vendors
- Develop best practices to ensure that internal teams and vendors meet deadlines
- Troubleshoot and communicate any potential risks and delays to cross functional teams
- Build and maintain seasonal WIP with the support of the Development and Production Assistant
- Partner with Design to ensure all details are laid out and communicated prior to season’s start
- Review design concepts and confirm feasibility for production
- Issue appropriate trials as needed for bulk approval (wash tests, technique execution, color approvals)
- Work with Fabric R&D/Trim Team to ensure sample fabrics and trims are available and shipped to vendors
- Continually review allocation to ensure department and vendor sourcing strategy is met
- Report and communicate development ratios at every milestone to ensure seasonal budget is maintained
- Partner with vendors, designers, TD and sample room to ensure Proto, SMS, PP, TOP deadlines are met
- Collaborate with internal partners to ensure that BOM, Tech Packages and POs are accurate throughout development 69!!
- Collect and monitor booking dates for seasonal fabrics
- Position fabrics as needed with vendors, with the assistance of the Development and Production Assistant
- Review/Confirm final buys with internal partners
- Monitor seasonal liability materials and propose uses for future seasons
- Issue and maintain seasonal POs
- Monitor production and ensure on time deliveries and quality standards are maintained
Costing Management
- Maintain costing in our ERP systems throughout development and production
- Present costing at all development and production milestones
- Identify and troubleshoot costing challenges in partnership with Design and Merchandising
- Negotiate best cost on a style level with vendors
- Work to identify and platform franchise fabrics with cross functional partners and vendors
- Develop costing skills of Development and Production Assistant
- Foster relationships with vendors
- Communicate business needs to factories
- Manage daily communication with vendors with the support of the Associate
- Evaluate vendors’ performance and make recommendations on sourcing matrix to VP of Production and Development
- Continually communicate and reinforce Design’s aesthetic and company’s quality standards
- Develop understanding of quality standards and partner with factories and raw material vendors to ensure quality standards are being met
- Troubleshoot potential risks, evaluate course of action to prevent future incidents
- Develop understanding of technical construction and partner with TD to ensure garment is sound
- Test garments that are potential risks through counter sourcing exercises
- Foster and maintain strong cross functional relationships with Design, Merchandising and Technical Design.
- Balance process and people management
- Lead, coach and develop direct reports through routine performance conversations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion or equivalent, preferred
- 5 year’s experience of Production and/or Product Development for a Fashion company
- Woven apparel experience
- Exceptional knowledge of product development and production cycle timelines.
- Solution oriented, critical thinker with ability to balance multiple projects and priorities.
- Highly detail oriented with outstanding follow up and follow through
- Proactive approach to anticipate issues and provide solutions
- Flexible/adaptable to work in a highly collaborative environment
- Leadership and relationship skills
- Paid Time Off
- Clothing Allowance
- Generous Employee Discount
- Paid Parental Leave
- Membership to Calm and access to other wellness benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and ancillary benefits
- 401k
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
