Assistant Manager, Product Development & Production

About the role

The Assistant Manager, Product Development & Production supports the Product Development team with sample and purchase order organization. Key responsibilities include ensuring vendors are compliant, managing purchasing and scheduling for goods, coordinating with PO admin, tracking samples, maintaining production steps, and managing cost sheets.

Responsibilities

• Ensures all vendors are compliant
• Maintains purchasing, scheduling and inventory control for all vendors
• Oversees purchasing and scheduling for goods
• Covers PO admin tasks, including setting up purchase orders and distributing size breakdowns to vendors
• Aids VP in final cost negotiation after orders are passed
• Tracks top of production samples to ensure timely receipt and quality
• Maintains Production Steps throughout the Company Calendar, collects and manages weekly WIP reports
• Ensures Production Coordinator receives packing slips, updates WIP report, and tracks open balances
• Advises cross-functional teams on delivery/margin challenges
• Monitors factory ship dates
• Manages cost sheet from proto to production stages
• Builds department’s work-in-process report from pre-production through production
• Drives weekly cross-functional meetings covering pre-production and production deliverables
• Troubleshoots problematic styles before they become larger issues
• Reviews sales bookings against cancel dates and production in distribution center dates
• Alerts leadership of problems and resolutions as they arise

Requirements

• Basic understanding of Google Suite and Microsoft Office
• Excellent time-management and organization skills, consistently meeting deadlines
• Strong follow-up skills
• Team player and open to dialogue
• Effective communication in person and via email
• Attention to detail
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and pivot projects in a dynamic environment
• Flexible thinker with the ability to make sound independent decisions
• AFA or AA in Fashion Merchandising, Business, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• English, additional language(s) an advantage

Benefits

• New state-of-the-art HQ in 2025
• Formalized career paths for professional growth
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Comprehensive health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• 401k match with immediate vesting upon eligibility
• Weekly catered lunches & fully-stocked kitchen pantry
• Opportunities to travel for trade shows and vendor meetings
• Summer Fridays Early Departure
• Team bonding events and programs
• Affordable employee discounts

Pay

Details TBD

Schedule

Monday – Friday | Core business hours | Onsite

Equal Opportunity Employer

Fashion Nova, LLC, and subsidiaries thereof, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and pledge to reflect these objectives in all aspects of our operations. We will continue to recruit, hire, train, and advance qualified individuals in all job titles without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, status as a protected veteran, criminal history, or status as an individual with a disability.