Location: Leicester
Type: Permanent
Industry: Ladieswear
Job Ref: TGM2107
The Company:
An established Ladies fashion brand, have an exciting opportunity for a Production Manager to join their expanding team.
The Role:
- Overseeing the production process
- Able to maintain & work with critical path
- Planning and monitoring production schedules and altering them when necessary
- Working closely with in-house sample room team, quality control departments
- Working closely with fabric suppliers , liaising with fabric bulk deliveries
- Creating and execute daily, weekly, production schedules
- Manages all communication with factories to ensure daily clarity production status update
- Work on all required / requested testing on all bulk test reports and approvals
- Manage relationship with factory
- identify and troubleshoot costing/quality control challenges along with design and resolve with vendors
- Ensuring quality is always high standards are maintained across all ranges
- Ensuring production is cost effective
- Strategically manage vendors to make sure sample deadlines are met
- Making sure deliveries are met & are of the highest quality
- Estimating costs and setting the quality standards
- Monitoring the production processes and adjusting schedules as needed
- Being responsible for the selection and maintenance of equipment, ensuring we are always using the safest and best quality for our teams
- Monitoring product standards and implementing quality-control programmes
- Liaising among different departments e.g. Design, Merchandising etc.
- Ensuring that health and safety guidelines are followed
- Supervising and motivating the team
Skills Required:
- Experience in a similar role and industry
- Be able to manage time and people
- Have project management experience
- Be able to prepare reports and plan
- A good knowledge of the production process
- Project management skills
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- The ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- A good standard of IT and maths
- A creative approach to problem solving
- Ability to travel to Manchester