ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER - ATHLETA

Athleta is creating a new breed of premium, authentically active and fashion-fueled apparel for a life in motion. Our mission is to ignite a community of active, healthy confident girls who empower each other to realize their limitless potential.

We're looking for people who find inspiration in the same things we do. Like community. Participation. Empowering others. Working as a team. Never forgetting that work isn't work without a little play - and, of course, being a part of something bigger. At Athleta we’re always reaching for amazing - and that challenge is what fuels us!

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Location: Athleta is relocating to San Francisco on or around Feb 1, 2017! This role will be located at 1 Harrison Street in San Francisco, Ca.

Start Date: The anticipated start date for this role will be January 29th, 2017 or therefore after.

Summary:

The Assistant Production Manager actively participates as a member of a Global Production Team, which is responsible for the product development, financial profitability, and responsive strategy execution for a single or multiple departments.

Responsibilities:
• Assists in alignment between Merchants, Design, and R&D to understand product strategies to ensure sourcing strategies are in place to support
• Provide GIS with clarity on any product strategy shifts to prepare sourcing channels to support
• Partner with Design and R&D to identify areas of concern and potential sourcing solves
• Collect and clearly communicate all product costing & drive for costing options to hit costing targets
• Assists in costing roll process, helping to identify any costing concerns & present to cross-functional team
• Drives for alignment on RSC strategies & executes all RSC related activities (pre-season and in-season)
• Assist in communication of lead times and early books to cross functional teams & execute early bookings
• Drives BOM details meetings in partnership with Design
• Supports the execution of final BOMs in PLM & communicates to GIS
• Attends critical fitting to offer guidance with respect to costing and lead times
• Ensures that supporting systems (FM, PLM, TS) are complete and accurate by the agreed deadlines
• Manage and track Photo-samples and Adoption samples to ensure timely delivery
• Help to investigate all product issues and identify potential solutions
• Track and report all open issues with cross-functional team during weekly team meetings
• Drives to hit all pipeline deadlines on-time

Qualifications:
• 4 Year Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 1 Year General work experience
• Understand the principles of apparel manufacturing, apparel costing and retail math
• Computer skills: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, web-based applications
• Able to work as a member of a team
• Effectively communicate in written and verbal form
• Detail oriented with strong follow through
• Have a sense of urgency in managing time and accomplishing tasks
• Demonstrate proactive problem solving skills
• Ability to react to change
• Solicit feedback/self-development
• Make effective presentations