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.
