Job Description

A day in the life…

• Lead, manage, and mentor teams through product development cycle and calendar milestones. Ensure deadlines, costing Kpi’s and quality standards are consistently met.
• Demonstrated ability as an adaptive Continuous Improvement leader, using the Toyota 14 principles, Npg beliefs and root cause problem solving.
• Support the team balancing the workload between categories, encouraging those closest to the work to provide solutions, and removing barriers to allow the team to do their best work.
• Be a servant leader that attracts, retains and develops talent by providing continuous mentoring and a commitment to common vision and shared values.
• Establish strong working relationships with cross function divisional teams and leaders with customer at forefront of all decisions.
• Identify process improvement needs, encouraging and supporting team led problem solving.
• Lead the product development team through the execution of the sourcing strategy
• Lead and support team in resolving any quality issues post production
• In partnership with Design, Merchandising, Production and Sourcing create and drive the seasonal calendar creation and ensure team is meeting required deadlines.
• Lead teams in tracking product development milestones and calendar due dates with pre-production tracking and reporting (prototype, color, sample yardage, testing, etc.).
• Support, coach and mentor teams with vendor negotiations through product lifecycle i.e. costing, time and action, minimums, etc.
• Collaborate with Strategic Sourcing and Csr leaders to ensure the source base meets development and production capability needs and aligns back to our company goals and initiatives.
• Support Pd team in achieving standards for costing rollups for brand and/ or classification at final cost. Develop into specified costing targets that achieve Imu goals.

You own this if you have…

• Bachelor’s degree in Textile, Fashion Merchandising, Design or equivalent years of experience
• 10 years with leadership experience in product development in garment manufacturing
• Experience managing, developing, and supporting large and diverse team
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Exceptionally strong problem solving, negotiating skills and out of the box thinking – curious and ever changing.
• Owner at heart
• Strong quantitative skills
• Highly skilled in Microsoft 365 Suite, Excel, Outlook, Adobe Illustrator, Word, Tableau, Flex Plm
• Ability and willingness to travel throughout the U.S., Asia, South America & Europe

We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and Eap Resources

A few more important points…

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation should contact the nearest Nordstrom location, which can be identified at www.nordstrom.com.