Production Analyst/Planner

Responsibilities

• The Production Analyst/Planner drives pre-production and production planning and delivery execution.
• Ensures logistics compliance and communicates production and delivery status to relevant departments.
• Ensures continuous improvement in delivery performance for assigned vendors to meet production goals.
• Proactively identifies and addresses production and capacity issues.
• Ensures that factory corrective action plans are established and follows up on areas where performance lags.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to resolve issues impacting quality and delivery.
• Manages production exceptions as needed.
• Drives partnership enhancement and reconciles any discrepancies or arguments that might affect garment delivery and quality.
• Establishes and maintains partnerships with related cross-functional departments in the organization and with other business partners.
• Reviews and analyzes production reports with vendors.
• Validates data accuracy.
• Communicates issues to relevant departments.
• Keeps internal systems and related LOs/HO updated accurately in a timely manner.
• Provides vendors with updates and training for any relevant production docs and processes and ensures that vendors follow accordingly.
• Frequently visits factories to review production status.
• Works with vendors on issue prevention and resolution.
• Works with vendor logistics team to ensure vendor compliance, shipping document accuracy, and payment settlement in system.
• Works with relevant departments and teams on payments.
• Deploys process improvement and vendor empowerment.
• Supports other company initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Consults with staff members on more complex issues.
• Exercises judgment within defined parameters to make decisions on tasks with limited scope or complexity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 4-6 years of professional experience, and general proficiency with tools, systems, and procedures required to accomplish the job.
• Receives moderate level of guidance and direction on complex tasks.
• Working knowledge of the principles, practices and concepts within own job discipline; has broadened capability through practical experience in applying theories.
• Understands key business drivers; demonstrates knowledge of the organization and processes; uses this understanding to accomplish their own work.
• Explains and simplifies complex information to others; leads the coordination of information to ensure ongoing process or program execution.

Travel

Occasional - 10% Criteria & Management Requirements: Problem Solving: Solves a variety of problems that may be somewhat difficult and varied in nature.

Impact

Impact is typically limited to the department. #LI-SA1 #Hybrid This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.