Category Manager - Sweaters Job at Anthropologie, Philadelphia, PA

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  • Anthropologie
  • Philadelphia, PA

Job Description

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.

Job Tags

Seasonal work, Overseas, Shift work,

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