Job Description

The Sr Production Planner drives pre-production and production planning and delivery execution, ensures logistic compliance, and communicates production and delivery status to relevant departments. Assists in the management of production projects and initiative implementation.

Responsibilities:
5-10% Provides guidance to lower level professional staff.

10-15% Leads the production team on specific tasks or projects. Leads process improvement, vendor development, and initiative implementation. Contributes to complex projects and carries out assignments independently.

15-20% Solves moderately complex production problems and develops creative solutions based on the evaluation of multiple options. Uses expertise to influence decisions. Ensures continuous improvement in delivery performance for assigned vendors to meet production goals.

10-15% Reviews and analyzes production reports with vendors. Communicates issues to relevant departments. Keeps internal systems and related LOs/HO updated accurately in timely manner. Proactively identifies and addresses production and capacity issues. Ensures that factory corrective action plans are established and follows up as needed.

10-15% Provides vendors with updates for any relevant production documents and ensures that vendors follow accordingly. Frequently visits factories to review production status and work with vendors on issue prevention and resolution.

5-10% Motivates partnership enhancement and reconciles discrepancies or arguments that might affect garment delivery and quality. Establishes and maintains partnerships with related cross-functional departments in the organization and other business partners.

5-10% Works with the vendor logistics team to ensure vendor compliance, shipping document accuracy, and payment settlement in system.

5-10% Manages production exceptions.

5% Performs other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 5-8 years of professional experience and strong competency with the various tools, systems, or procedures required to accomplish the job.
• Travel: Moderate - 25%
• Work Schedule: Standard Hours

Career Band: Professional
Jobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise.

Criteria & Management Requirements:
• Problem Solving: Solves complex problems and develops independent creative solutions based on the evaluation of multiple options.
• Decisions: Independently analyzes issues of a diverse scope and functions with a moderate degree of autonomy. Receives minimal direction, seeks guidance for highly complex issues.
• Knowledge: In depth knowledge of principles, concepts, and theories within own discipline and working knowledge of related disciplines. Applies broader knowledge of industry standards/practices to assignments and others.
• Business Acumen: Understands best practices; is aware of the differences between the company and its competition in the supported function. Understands how their own functional area integrates with others to deliver results.
• Communication & Influence: Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. May provide process and subject matter advice.
• Impact: Work performed will have impact on cross-functional projects beyond the department.
• Leadership: No supervisory responsibility. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead projects with manageable risks and resource requirements. May contribute input to the performance review of other team members.

Work Environment: Typical Office

Other Work Environment Requirements:
Typical Office: Operates in a typical office environment, routinely uses computer and other standard office equipment.

Other Physical Requirements:
Typical Office: Generally sedentary for prolonged periods, may occasionally require ability to move about or adjust/move items weighing up to 10 lbs. in all directions; Constantly requires ability to communicate with others to exchange information.

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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.