Experience

Victoria's Secret Pink

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Development Manager

  • May 2012 - Present



Ralph Lauren

• United States
• Apparel & Fashion
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Product Development Manager

  • Mar 2009 - May 2012

  *Manage a team of four product development associates *Create and manage over 100 tech packs for each season *Allocate and source product for each season *Price and negotiate the entire line for each season *Analyze price breakdowns, challenge prices and advise target prices to factories *Negotiate garment deliveries *Attend meetings with design and merchandising to assure goals being met and delivering quality product on time. *Create and maintain a variety of excel spread sheets *Communicate daily with overseas offices and factories *Travel overseas twice a year to negotiate garment FOB’s with the vendors Show less



kate spade new york

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Production Specialist

  • Aug 2004 - 2009

  *Price the entire weekend line based on a four season calendar while ensuring that the corporate margin goal is met. Each season consists of approximately 150 styles. *Communicate with overseas offices as well as factories on a daily basis *Allocate and source product for each line as well as update monthly factory allocation report *Analyze price breakdowns, challenge prices, and advise target prices to factories * Strong negotiator– have met and or over achieved margin goal for six consecutive seasons *Negotiate garment deliveries and style flexibility *Oversee two production coordinators on a daily basis *Attend meetings with sales, design and merchandising to implement plans for businesses, chase strategies and new business opportunities *Responsible for the costing, lead time negotiation and any production issues for two additional lines. Liz quick(Styles that require quick production turn around for an upcoming season), and Liz special sales (consist of four seasons with approximately 150 styles in each). *Traveled to Asia to negotiate prices and visited factories *Track product to our warehouses * Analyze weekly production report *Issued Cutting Tickets * Requested Performer Invoices from mills to open letters of credit *Tracked fabric from purchase date to in factory date * Maintained preproduction report and attended weekly meetings to review * Tracked all styles from time of fabric order placement until garments were actually received in the warehouse Show less