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Director of Product Development
URBN
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Director of Product Development - Free People Knits
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (www.URBN.com) is an innovative specialty retailer which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise to highly defined customer niches through brands including Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, and BHLDN. Urban Outfitters, Inc., is both a Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 ranked company with $3.1 Billion in revenues.
URBN's Director of Product Development - Free People Knits will facilitate and execute Design’s vision through sourcing brand appropriate fabric and trims, delivering 3D visualization for all styles, trouble shooting material, price, and delivery issues while supporting design’s needs and business requirements. He or she will collaborate with Brand Directors (BD) on sourcing strategy, development blueprint, and category calendar; as well as supervise and promote the development of team through mentoring and training.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with Brand Director (BD) 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 BD 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.
• Partner with Fabric team to develop and manage raw materials, research and development of 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.
• Facilitate team to manage T&A proto tracking, physical sample management, management of fabric information, e.g. minimums, lead-times.
• Attend Style-out 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.
• 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.
• Analyze all elements of garment components, construction and treatment to build cost of each style. Knowledge of costing structure based on country of origin.
• Responsible to negotiate cost and meet IMU goals by class as established by Brand Director.
Required
Experience:
1. Ten(10) or more years of experience in a Knit apparel product development role with strong knowledge of garment construction, global raw material procurement, and manufacturing.
2. Strong knowledge base in raw materials and wash techniques within Knit fabrics.
3. Extensive experience with Tradestone or other PLM system, strong skills with Microsoft Excel a must.
4. Experience managing or leading junior team members required.
5. Must be deadline drive and have a pro-active and creative approach to problem solving.
6. Must have strong communication, organization, and follow up skills.
This role is located within our corporate headquarters in the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, PA.