Production Manager (Maternity Cover - 12 months)

Reports to:

Co-founders

Role overview:

You'll be a dynamic people-person with the ability to build collaborative relationships quickly, with great organisation and communication skills. You will manage the Production team to ensure the smooth running of all production areas across women's, men's and swimwear. This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months to cover maternity leave.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Managing team of four
• Working across menswear, womenswear, and swimwear, ensuring all product is made and delivered on time.
• Managing factories and production - key point of contact for factories based in China and Turkey
• Oversee the end-to-end production process, from fit sessions to final production. Ensure adherence to strict timelines and delivering exceptional quality.
• Collaborate closely with all teams including design, technical design and garment technology to ensure seamless coordination and execution.
• Work closely with merchandising and wholesale to ensure goods delivered to wholesale customers
• Manage the production critical path, liaising with factories and suppliers to place PO's and ensure timely delivery.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and sustainable practices, integrating them into our sourcing and production strategies to drive innovation and social responsibility.
• Full responsibility of QC testing across factories
• Capacity planning with factories to ensure goods are delivered on time.
• Leading the team in making critical decision on garments.
• Attending weekly fit session to help elevate garments, ensuring teams are keeping to strict deadlines to hit delivery dates.
• Negotiating on factory costs ensuring to hit the margin target across all products.
• Reviewing the overall margin of a collection to ensure the correct margin is being hit, aiding to KPIs.
• Monitor Purchase Order progress with regular Supplier meetings including Factory visits.

Qualifications:

• You'll be a real people person, on top of the details with a proven track record of successful account management.
• Have experience working in Fully Factored / Finished Good production processes.
• Previous Fashion Production Management experience of min 3 years.
• Targets oriented, highly motivated, organised and driven for success.
• Previous experience using stock management systems and Shopify would be desirable, alongside good Microsoft Office skills with the ability to create presentations and impactful sales material.
• A cross functional collaborator, with experience building collaborative relationships.
• Excellent stakeholder influencing, management, and communication skills.
• Strong project management - ability to drive small scale projects from concept to realisation.
• Strong prioritisation skills with absolute attention to detail.

Benefits:

• 50% Employee Discount
• 24 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
• A paid day off on your birthday
• A paid moving day per year
• Hybrid Working Arrangements - 1 day per week WFH after 6 month probation
• Pension Scheme
• Bonus Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family
• £500 employee referral bonus scheme
• Local Business Discounts (cafés, fitness, beauty etc)
• North-West London office location directly located next to good transport links
• Casual office dress code (your style of dress is up to you, wear what you feel best in)
• Fully-stocked kitchens and fridges (hello endless brekkie and snack supply, see ya afternoon munchies)
• Regular Office Social Events (e.g. payday socials)