Skills

Leadership Problem Solving Training Merchandising Team Development

Job Specifications

Anthropologie is looking for a category-specific leader that facilitates and executes Design’s vision through the development and management of pre-production processes and production work flow. Expert troubleshooter with strong competencies in raw material, price/costing, and delivery issue resolution. Strategically supports Merchant’s needs and Brand business requirements with a forward looking approach. Strong collaboration with partners in sourcing operations, product development, design and merchandising. Required to provide training, development and support of team members and direct reports.

Role Responsibilities:

SOURCING STRATEGY

Manage brand initiatives and goals.
Create and manage monthly forecast by factory, and annual mill strategy by provided operations calendar deadlines measured by monthly book to date reconciliation.
Control final allocations.
Develop and maintain relationships with vendors to ensure successful business partnerships.
Analyze industry trends to proactively identify supply base issues to reduce cost, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit emerging opportunities that benefit the brand.
Book fabrics and manage deliveries, and liabilities. Reviewed at quarterly mill review.
Initiate and book early fabric commitments.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT BLUEPRINT

Collaborate between stakeholders to create calendar and meet deadlines as measured by seasonal calendar actualization report.
Outline and communicate brand and category strategy based on Trend meeting.
Improve adoption rates over specific time period and hit approved line plan style count measured by seasonal line plan actualization.
Manage commitments and order placements.

PRODUCTION WORK IN PROCESS

Calculate and manage rolling and final IMUs at order placement for variance IMU analysis.
Strategize brand business opportunities including freight modes for distribution center receipt, flow, and margin opportunity.
Manage product development and production process for merchant direct product.
Provide IMU targets and guidance to team to negotiate final costing with vendors ensuring margins are met or exceeded.

TEAM DEVELOPMENT/MANAGEMENT

Assess and develop staff. Build the appropriate team to ensure effective day to day management of each business group and accurate and readily available records and reports.
Coach staff to generate creative solutions.
Ability to lead change, and coach team to respond to a rapidly changing business environment.
Facilitate corporate initiative of global work shift to support international expansion.
Coordinate and facilitate team to deliver aesthetically correct samples that meet Design’s vision and the Merchant’s requirements.
Facilitate team to maintain and manage the pre-production time and action and production work-in-process.

Role Qualifications

Significant leadership experience managing large teams working in a fast paced environment.
Experience traveling overseas to evaluate vendors and to determine areas of improvement.
Supervise subordinates’ responsibilities to ensure accomplishment of department goals and deadlines.
Promote the development of subordinates through supervision and training.
Pro-actively approach problem solving.
Implement operational efficiencies.
Adapt quickly to changes.
Driven by deadlines with a high sense of urgency.

About the Company

Anthropologie is a unique, full-lifestyle destination that aspires to bring creativity, optimism, and inspiration to our customers, every day. Offering an unlike-anywhere-else assortment with an artisan spirit and a global point of view, Anthropologie prizes curiosity and discovery – and engages in constant, perspective-broadening conversation with our creative-minded community. We take pride in our connection with individuals who prioritize self-expression and pursue inspiration, knowledge, and experience in the spirit of ... Know more