PREMIER BRANDS GROUP HOLDINGS
Iconic by Nature, Exceptional by Design
Premier Brands Group Holdings, A Global Leader in Apparel, Jewelry and Accessories Design
Driven by excellence and innovative talent, Premier Brands Group is a leading, global apparel group of iconic brands, offering a diverse portfolio in denim, women’s apparel, and jewelry.
Premier Brands Group is comprised of three distinct businesses that create top-tier brands for the discerning consumer. One Jeanswear Group designs and distributes a distinguished portfolio of branded and private label Jeanswear throughout North America.
An apparel industry leader for 30+ years, The Kasper Group has remained committed to excellence in offering iconic brands and relevant womenswear designs.
The Jewelry Group has a 20+ year legacy of developing, sourcing and selling elevated fashion jewelry pieces, with a design-centric point of view. Our legacy is rooted in our rich portfolio of the most covetable denim, apparel, jewelry and accessories brands in the world. Each respective group is Iconic by Nature and Exceptional by Design.
We are currently seeking a Senior Production Associate. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Daily email correspondence to all departments within TKG as well as factories and agents involved with current garment production
- Confer with Material master team to ensure all styles/colors are in the system
- Confer with textile team to ensure all fabrications are confirmed by design
- Attend sales meeting to review styles/units/colors after market
- Negotiate chases, drops and revised units/fabric needs with sales and the factory base
- Work with costing, textile design and tech to ensure on time deliveries
- Maintain status and report of fabric liabilities by season, range and value
- Check on yields with marking and grading department and factories to confirm overall fabric consumption and work with textile team on fabric received at factory to ensure all sales/booked units are covered
- Adjust units bases on booked units, confirmed yields and fabric received at factory to ensure all sales/booked units are covered
- Negotiate discount and shipping terms with factories if production runs late
- Confirm new or updated buy plans from Sales, as well as helping to ensure that all involved parties are informed of/and clear on, the latest requests from Sales
- Create, issue revise and send unit distros to the factories when necessary
- Working in settling all issues involving the Textile and /or Trim Departments and involve Director of Production when necessary
- Attend and prepare for all status, costing sales and in warehouse meetings and inform the rest of the Production team of all new issues, updates and changes.
- Issue and revise both US and Canada purchase orders when needed
- Work to guarantee that all delivery matters are properly agreed upon and that all confirmed delivery dates are met by the parties involved
- Make sure that all problems and issues that arise during the production process are dealt with and resolved in a timely manner and assuring that all required steps are carried out by the departments involved and involving Director of Production when necessary
- Discuss all ship methods and shipping terms with the factory agents
- Verify that all information in RLM for both US and kept up-to-date with all recent amendments and modifications
- Format sizing by style in Trade weave on styles to be cut to ensure booked units are covered
- Conduct monthly shipping meeting with sales using in-Warehouse report
- Follow-up with factories and tech department on pre-production sample status
- Meet with tech team to follow-up with status of fit and PPS
- Create and maintain bi-weekly PPS report and review with director of production
- Request Ad and ecommerce samples required by sales and design teams
- Advise allocations if styles are running late so garments may be expedited upon arrival at the warehouse
- Assess WIP charts from factories and advise of any potential problems
- Review ASN and process comments from the factories
- General problem solving with all departments, factories and agents
- Complete special assignments whenever necessary