Title

Free People Senior PD Coordinator – Woven Tops

Reports to

Manager – Katelyn Snow

Supervises

NA

Overview

Facilitates and executes Design’s vision through sourcing brand appropriate fabric and trims, delivering 3D visualization for all styles, troubleshooting material, price, and delivery issues while supporting design’s needs and business requirements. Collaborate with Brand Directors (BD) on sourcing strategy, development blueprint, and category calendar. Supervise and promote the development of team through mentoring and training.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Manager to create category calendar. Required to manage and meet calendar deadlines measured by seasonal calendar actualization.
• Attend Trend meeting to understand design intention and tone for the season. Collaborate with Manager on category strategy outline based on Trend meeting.
• Analyze and suggest necessary changes to merchant’s line plan and communicate expectations to the team. Responsible to improve adoption rates over specific time period and hit approved line plan style count measured by seasonal line plan actualization.
• Create a strategy based on design’s vision, business needs and hindsight’s including outline of travel and other required resources and setting of blueprint for the Sample Room and Allocation Plan report.
• Develop and manage all pre-style development including pre-costing, fabrics, washes, mock-ups, drapes, tailoring bodies, trims and prints.
• Attend Sketch Review meeting and clarify important style aspects and strategize on how to deliver design vision at the required price point.
• Present to BD all pre-style and style development and to identify opportunities for corporate fabrics during Final Allocation review meeting.
• Coordinate and facilitate team to deliver aesthetically correct samples that meet design vision.
• Manage development T&A proto tracking, physical sample management, management of fabric information, e.g., minimums, lead-times.
• Attend Intent to Buy meeting to determine which styles will be bought. Responsible to communicate costing (including options) and minimums based on collaboration with PDTD. Responsible to calculate and manage style-out IMUs.
• Collaborate with team and BD as needed to provide final allocation to merchants once intent to buy has been communicated from merchants. Responsible for updating any restyles/costing or delivery changes.
• Transition responsibility for in-work styles from the front-end to the back-end during PD handover meeting. Including IMU roll, development, status, and production concerns.

Qualifications

• Five (5) or more years of experience in an apparel product development role with strong knowledge of garment construction, global raw material procurement, and manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge base in raw materials and wash techniques.
• Extensive experience with Tradestone or other PLM systems, strong skills with Microsoft Excel a must.
• Must be deadline driven and have a pro-active and creative approach to problem solving.
• Must have strong communication, organization, and follow up skills.

Job Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both oral and written

• Ability to work under pressure and deliver to deadlines

• Strong attention to detail with emphasis on both quality and speed

• Ability to prioritize work effectively and handle multiple competing demands

Location

Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA

Travel

NA