Product Management Manager, Lauren Sweaters

About the role

Ralph Lauren Corporation seeks a Product Development Manager to join our dynamic team. This individual will be responsible for driving the development and execution of the product strategy for the brand, ensuring the integrity of product from sales sample to bulk production.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development and execution of the product strategy for the brand to create best overall value in terms of product, price, lead-time and quality
• Strong ability to spearhead weekly cross-functional team meetings and drive team to quick resolution of issues
• Create and create timelines with sourcing offices and vendors on lab dips, raw material sourcing and approvals to ensure production delivery deadlines are met
• Partner with Design on all design approvals and comments
• Communicate strategies and align execution plans with Brand, Sourcing offices, Raw Material Team and Product Integrity
• Collaborate with Design on sourcing new yarns that fit our price point, ensuring MOQ, lead time, price, and sustainability requirements are met
• Partner with Tech team to ensure design execution meets Product Standards/RL requirements
• Optimize lead-times and activities from development to store
• Maintain development and production costing for products
• Review and update all costs from initial to final stages
• Request, manage and track development and showroom samples
• Submit and follow up on testing to ensure the quality level of the products are in the limits for the defined quality standards
• Monitor / maintain weekly T&A, WIP tracker
• Partner with Merchandising, raw material teams and sourcing office to platform and/or position raw materials
• Provide order placement timelines and MOQ’s to Merchandising, Regions & Channels
• Manage and Submit production orders to vendors to meet delivery deadlines
• Ensure clear and complete PLM tech packages (Images, BOM’s, Product Note Pages) are generated in PLM and sent to vendors for development
• Ensure PLM tech packages are updated with any relevant changes outlined in bi-weekly add/drop memos from merchandising

Qualifications

• College degree, preferred or equivalent experience
• Work-related experience
• Embody critical thinking skills, solutions oriented approaches to problem solving, and adaptability
• Strong verbal and written (email) communication and presentation skills
• Proficient in all computer systems: Intermediate to advanced Excel (i.e. pivot tables, v lookups etc.), PowerPoint, Word, SAP, FlexPLM, GFE+, Ariba

Skills

• Strong ability to spearhead cross-functional team meetings
• Collaboration with Design and Tech teams
• Product development and execution
• Cost management and review
• Quality control and testing
• Vendor and supplier communication
• Production order management
• PLM tech package generation and maintenance

Benefits

Salary range: $65,000 - $129,225 annually

Pay

$65,000 - $129,225 annually

Schedule

N/A