- Job Description: Production Manager – Fashion Designing
- Job Title: Production Manager – Fashion Designing
- Location: Lodha World Tower, Lower Parel, Mumbai
- Department: Production / Operations Employment Type: Full-time
- Experience: 5–8 years in fashion, apparel, garment, or textile production
- Male candidates only.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced and organized *Production Manager*to manage the complete fashion production process, from design development and fabric sourcing to final delivery. The candidate will coordinate with designers, vendors, manufacturers, quality-control teams, and internal departments to ensure that all products are delivered on time, within budget, and according to the required quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- - Plan, schedule, and monitor the complete production cycle for garments and fashion products.
- - Coordinate with designers, pattern makers, merchandisers, vendors, and manufacturers.
- - Convert approved designs and tech packs into production-ready garments.
- - Prepare production timelines, Time and Action calendars, and delivery schedules.
- - Source fabrics, trims, accessories, packaging materials, and other production requirements.
- - Coordinate with factories, job workers, suppliers, and production vendors.
- - Negotiate costing, production timelines, minimum order quantities, and commercial terms.
- - Monitor sampling, fit approvals, size sets, pre-production samples, and bulk production.
- - Ensure that garments meet approved specifications, measurements, fitting, finishing, and quality standards.
- - Resolve production delays, quality issues, and operational bottlenecks.
- - Monitor production costs, wastage, material consumption, and overall efficiency.
- - Supervise production staff and coordinate with quality-control teams.
- - Maintain records of purchase orders, production status, inventory, vendor details, and delivery reports.
- - Coordinate with merchandising, design, sales, finance, and logistics teams.
- - Ensure timely dispatch and delivery of finished products.
- - Prepare regular production reports for senior management.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- - Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Fashion Designing, Apparel Production, Textile Technology, Fashion Merchandising, or a related field.
- - 5–8 years of relevant experience in fashion or garment production.
- - Strong knowledge of garment construction, fabrics, trims, stitching, finishing, and production processes.
- - Experience in vendor management, sourcing, costing, and negotiations.
- - Good understanding of sampling, fit approvals, quality control, and bulk production.
- - Strong planning, coordination, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
- - Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
- - Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and production-tracking tools.
- - Strong leadership and team-management skills.
- - Willingness to travel to factories, vendors, and production units when required.
Key Performance Indicators
- - On-time completion of production orders.
- - Product quality and reduction in rejection rates.
- - Accurate cost control and reduced production wastage.
- - Efficient vendor performance.
- - Timely sample approvals and bulk production.- Successful delivery within approved timelines and budgets.