Associate Production Manager, Baby

Gap Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Gap Inc. seeks a strategic professional to enhance product capabilities and vendor engagement. This role involves creating seasonal strategies, ensuring product availability, and optimizing post-line adoption processes within a cross-functional team. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Experience in product strategy and vendor management.
• Strong analytical processes for optimizing product lines.
• Ability to adapt team priorities based on business needs.

Responsibilities

• Create seasonal strategies to minimize fabric purchase exposure.
• Implement vendor engagement strategies across divisions.
• Ensure product availability for seasonal and fast pipelines.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Job description

About the Role

This role is responsible for supporting the ideation, development, implementation, and execution of the Gap Inc. production and vendor capability strategy. The goal is to deliver value by effectively balancing innovation, quality, and cost. You will operate within a highly matrixed global organization, forming part of a cross-functional product team that includes Design, Merchandising, Tech Design, Quality Assurance, Sustainability, Fabric Research and Development, and Global Sourcing. You will execute your responsibilities with strong attention to detail to ensure the product pipeline meets key milestones and aligns with product-to-market (P2M) demands.

What You'll Do

1. Create seasonal strategies to minimize exposure to fabric purchases before line adoption.
2. Implement a vendor engagement strategy across divisions and categories for both seasonal and fast pipelines.
3. Ensure product availability for seasonal and fast pipelines at the product category level.

Who You Are

1. Develop analytic processes required to optimize post-line adoption.
2. Adapt team priorities to respond to customer and business partner needs.
3. Provide frontline supervision to an operational, service, or administrative team.