Description
Haddad is a privately held family business with over 70 years of experience in the children’s wear apparel and accessories industry. Haddad is the leading children’s wear manufacturer representing the most iconic American brands in the world; Nike, Brand Jordan, Converse, Hurley and Levi’s. Our talented professionals are leaders in design, sourcing, sales and global distribution. With over 15 locations and 800 employees globally, it is no surprise that we are already the number one children’s wear company in the world.
Overview:
The Supply Chain and Production Manager will evaluate and prioritize factory capacity and delivery requirements and ensure on-time delivery.
Key Accountabilities:
- Work closely with the Sales and Demand Planning teams to coordinate sales needs against available capacity
- Partner with Value team to identify opportunities for key categories to maximize available capacities in overseas factories
- Plan and prioritize customer orders to support each factory’s capacity
- Manage the customer delivery deadlines seasonally against the buys as they are placed, making sure production is shipping with enough time to achieve them
- Work closely with overseas teams on USA and global delivery tracking to communicate with sales teams accordingly
- Prioritize and problem solve any issues that arise in production calendars relating to deliveries and communicate with proposed solutions to both management and sales teams
- Manage container allocation to ensure customer needs are being met
- Train/guide staff and overseas teams with best practices and proactive checkpoints to help maintain and track production deliveries
- Supervise staff and provide direction and management to identify and resolve opportunities and challenges on deliveries/production/systems
- Special projects as assigned
Requirements
Required Skills/Abilities/Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in International Trade or Business, Fashion Merchandising or related field
- 3+ years of experience in Sourcing or Supply Chain Management within the fashion industry
- Proven ability to work with international business partner to drive results
- Ability to travel as needed (up to 40%)
- Excellent organizational and communication skills with attention to detail
- Advanced knowledge of AS400
Consistent in-office presence is vital to the role as it is for all Haddad Brands team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.