Remote Director of Production

Summary

Join our team as the Director of Production, overseeing all aspects of production, ensuring high-quality output, efficiency, and adherence to timelines. This remote position requires a strong understanding of industry regulation and market standards.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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