About This Role
The Director of Production will oversee all aspects of the production process, with a significant emphasis on visiting manufacturing partners to maintain high-quality standards and compliance. Lead and manage all aspects of the production process, ensuring high-quality output, efficiency, and adherence to timelines. Develop, implement, and monitor vendor compliance policies and procedures, with a strong understanding of industry regulation and market standards. This position is remote with a desired residency in Southern California.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in Production Management. Minimum 5 years.
- Travel Flexibility, with a focus internationally for regular site visits, audit supervision and production oversight.
- Proficiency in Excel, NetSuite, PLM systems and extensive data management.
- Physical proximity to the Southern California area strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
Vendor Strategy
- Conduct regular visits to manufacturing facilities to assess operations, quality control and compliance.
- Manage Production Vendor Guidelines outlining expectations, quality standards and requirements to be met by manufacturing partners.
- Improve manufacturer performance through quarterly Vendor Scorecards
- Calendar all vendor audits to cover capacity, social and environmental standards and summarize results with risk management recommendations.
- Maintain vendor 3rd party certifications and audit quarterly/annually, as needed.
- Support new manufacturer outreach vetting – research, screening, counter sampling, onboarding.
- Ongoing knowledge of industry standards and regulations, ensuring strict adherence.
Quality Control Standards
- Identify and implement improvements to enhance quality and production operations.
- Lead the compliance to our Product Quality Standards both internally and externally.
- Establish and review new collection Production Risks with Inventory.
- Effectively communicate updates to product construction to Inventory and Quality Control Manager
- Ensure all TOP and supporting reference charts are up to date for Inventory Team
- Respond and coordinate action items to Retail QC callouts with Inventory and Quality Control Manager
- Weekly assessment of HG data reporting, notating product pulls for review.
- Bi-weekly review of HG product, summarizing findings and coordinating with Inventory and Quality Control Manager on action items.
- Actively manage ongoing vendor Corrective Action Plans (CAP).
- Initiate quarterly product testing and summarize results.
- Coordinate bi-monthly ad hoc QC reviews of core A SKUS, review results and implement corrections as needed.
Production Order Management
- Upload and maintain all vendor Purchase Orders and costing within both WFX and NS
- Evaluate and assign QC levels to all open orders based on product history.
- Manage PO timelines and deliverables – WIP Reporting, review and track key production stages.
- Capacity planning to assess reduced lead time opportunities.
- Review Production Risks documents with vendors and ensure compliance.
- Coordinate overseas production line QC, review results and correct, as needed.
- Provide all vendors with breakdown of packaging requirements and monitor overseas packaging levels/allocations.
- Approve and book incoming imports with carriers with goal to maximize timelines and cost efficiency.
- Ensure all costing is current/updated in WFX and NS
- Coordinate incoming shipments and invoicing internally.
- Prepare and present production reports to VP of Product, highlighting progress, challenges and opportunity for process improvements.
Product Development Support
- Active partnership with Product Development to identify and build Production Risks document for new collections and provide construction improvement recommendations based on HG reviews.
- Review and lead manufacturer communication to approve or reject all new collection TOPs.
- Partner with Supply Chain to establish QC Standard for new collection.
Perks
- Medical, Vision, Dental and Life Insurance Benefits,*
- Generous employee discount and product perks program
- 401K and matching program*
- Paid Vacation and sick time
- Base salary range from $120,000 - $200,000
