Experience

The Children's Place

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Sourcing Manager, Girls Production

  • Mar 2019 - Present

  Scope: Manage the bulk production and on-time delivery for all Girls fashion and basic/uniform product. (64 factories) Annual Volume: 54 million units.Region: Asia, Africa and Central America. Team leadership: Lead and mentor 3 direct reports. Responsibilities:• Implement global sourcing strategies that meet and exceed business objectives while adhering to calendar deadlines.• Maintain vendor relationships and support allocation process to minimize cost and maximize efficiency.• Responsible for reporting high level on-time delivery, vendor performance through pivot charts and executive summary to support future product/vendor allocations. • Work closely with sourcing operations team to implement reporting controls for the organization and pilot them every season until full implementation, • Manage the product approval process in detail at all levels of production to ensure the highest product quality. • Articulate insights to identify strategic opportunities across all levels of the organization and influence senior leadership to implement efficient sourcing processes and best practices. • Collaborate and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams on daily product communication. • Research and anticipate any shifts in production and present best options to mitigate risk to floor set.• Highly skilled in all Microsoft programs, PLM and SAP functions. • Effectively manage multiple projects from concept to deployment, and build best practices for future implementation.

• Associate Sourcing Manager, Girls Production

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2019

  -Partner with design, merchants and planning to identify product opportunities and mitigate any delivery risk to floorset dates.-Partner with pre-production team for hand-off line confirmations -Build strong relationship with vendors to ensure sourcing objectives are being met.- Work and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams. - Review and update Unshipped Report weekly and follow up daily with delivery updates.. - Align tasks to achieve on-time delivery and quality product for the product approval process- Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency of sourcing processes and present to manager.- Manage the PO upload process using SAP system.



Kenneth Cole Productions

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Assistant Production Manager, Men's Apparel- Woven, Leather, Outerwear & Suit Separates

  • Apr 2015 - Jul 2016

  - Managed and communicated order and delivery information from vendors and factories to all internal teams.- Worked closely with logistics to track shipment status.- Partnered with design to finalize all details for every style including color, fabrics, and trims for each season.- Partnered with sales and planning to finalize customers orders and deliveries per channel.- Tracked proto, salesman, fit, pre-production and TOP samples.- Worked with PLM system for style updates including HTS classification and costs. - Issued and maintained POs in system 21 (AS400). - Assisted with material sourcing and development.- Tracked delivery schedule daily to ensure goods ship on time with no issues. - Attended production meetings every week to discuss any issues. - Approved samples and update tech-packs with pre-production comments.



Infinity Sourcing Services

• Production Specialist

  • Nov 2013 - Apr 2015

  Agent company that sources vendors/factories for buyers.• Acted as a liaison between the buyer and the factories overseas on product development, pricing, approvals, testing, deadlines, pre-production, production, packaging, and shipping.• Created Merchant/CAD sheets for developing/sourcing team for every season to show our new styles per brand. • Used the Global Sample Tracking System to keep track of all samples coming from all factories overseas.• Worked with the country’s designated QA and lab team on fabric and garment testing.• Communicated with the factory personnel to provide timely and accurate updates for the Merchandising Team.• Daily communication between the buyer's Product Development team, Technical Design, and QA team to track the production progress and ensured all deliveries ship on time with no issues.• Maintained the W.I.P report by inputting the most relevant stages of production.• Took full ownership of all data entry responsibilities as they pertained to purchase orders for factories and from buyers. Created Buy Confirmations with all product relevant information including size breaks, deliveries, quantities, carton dimensions, weight, and FOB.• Coordinated all ocean shipments with the country’s designated freight forwarder in China, Philippines, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Indonesia.• Identified any potential production issues and ensured that timely solutions were put into effect to improve quality and accuracy of all samples and bulk delivery.• Collaborated with Design and Production counterparts to facilitate and manage the approvals for production materials in terms of fabric, trims, color, finish, quality and testing.• Submitted color lab dips to colorist for all new styles in every color for all seasons and kept track of approvals/rejections.• Submitted hangtag order forms, main label order forms, and care label order forms with correct product information. Approved layouts.



Infinite Visions

• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Coordinator, Screen-Printing Facility

  • Jun 2011 - Sep 2012

  Middle size screen printing facility with full finishing and packing department. •Manage the brand portfolio accounts for the company, from receipt of orders to bulk production.•Customer portfolio accounts: Rocawear, Kids Headquarters, GUESS.•Wholesale accounts: Kohls, Sears, JCPenney, Wal-Mart, Fred Meyers, Dollar General, Stage Stores.•Oversaw every step of production from first receipt of orders and the graphics, to outputting samples, creating workorders for both the art department and production floor, ordering blanks, maintaining WIP reports and sales log/forecast, printing of goods, Quality Control, finishing of goods, packaging, shipping, and customer feedback.• Worked with customers on new body color for each season and new print techniques such as foil, high density, discharge, wax paper etc.• Created and maintained POs for all our Customers and updated the WIP reports as needed. • Identify and raise quality and technical issues with factories, mills, vendors and team(s); track capacity and performance of vendors for Production Manager; track accurate costing and commitments to raw materials.