Karrieremöglichkeiten
Product Management Manager, Lauren Wovens
Ref#:
Abteilung:
Ort:
Bundesland:
Land:
Firmen Beschreibung:
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Positionsübersicht:
- Partner with the Design, Merchandising, Technical Design, and Raw Materials Teams, as well as Sourcing Offices and Factories to ensure the integrity of product from salesman sample to bulk production.
- 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
Grundlegende Aufgaben und Verantwortlichkeiten:
- Strong ability to spearhead weekly cross functional team meetings and drive team to quick resolution of issues.
- Creative solutions and problem solving in addressing issue and roadblocks.
- Communicate strategies and align execution plans with Brand, Sourcing offices, Raw Material Team and Product Integrity
- Partner with Design on all design approvals and comments
- Partner with Tech team to ensure design execution meets Product Standards/RL requirements
- Drive the optimized lead-times and activities from development to store
- Develop and create timelines with sourcing offices and vendors on lab dips, raw material sourcing and approvals to ensure production delivery deadlines are met
- Communicate with vendors and suppliers to address development and resolve production issues
- 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
- Ensure fit approvals are approved to meet delivery deadlines
- 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.
Erfahrung, Fähigkeiten & Kenntnisse:
• College degree, preferred or equivalent experience
• Work-related experience
• Embodies 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
#LI-CE1