Director, Product Development and Sourcing

BOSTON PROPER

We hold our people, our customers, and our brand in the highest regard. Our people drive our businesses, so we strive to attract the best in our industry. They have different life experiences, educational and cultural backgrounds, but they share many things in common: a commitment to teamwork, to growing great brands, and to building a future full of possibilities. At Boston Proper, we put our passion and expertise into everything we do. You'll find it in our commitment to unique designs and polished looks that help women feel as fearlessly feminine and as beautifully powerful as they are.

We are searching for a Director, Product Development and Sourcing. This position reports directly to the Vice President, Supply Chain and is responsible for developing the global sourcing strategy that supports the product strategies while ensuring top line financial and business objectives are achieved. This role is responsible for contributing and supporting decisions regarding seasonal product development strategies by providing country, vendor, and fabrics strategies; technical product guidance; cost option analysis to inform decision making regarding what is needed to hit topline financials and to identify risks and opportunities for assigned categories.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop, implement, and optimize global sourcing strategy to align with product strategies.
2. Align sourcing countries and vendors to achieve key performance indicators (gross sales, item mark-up, average unit cost, on-time delivery, returns rates).
3. Provide in-season costing strategies by leveraging unit volume, fabric consolidation and style consolidation.
4. Partner with design, merchant partners and planning on pre-season and in-season research & development targets, goals, and objectives to ensure efforts align with fiscal and event targets.
5. Drive adherence to calendar milestones and deliverables while making recommendations and callouts regarding meeting cadence, process improvements and efforts to drive efficient use of team's time.
6. Own vendor relationships.
7. Build and develop a high performing team; define a clear vision and motivate others to achieve goals; resolve conflicts easily while protecting cross-functional partnerships.
8. Build and foster relationships with design, technical design, and merchant partners to lead in a collaborative style and communicate in an engaging impactful manner.
9. Strong organizational and time management skills.
10. Own product development and sourcing process improvement; understand and value the need to access and improve processes to drive efficiencies.

Experience/Requirements:

1. Bachelor's Degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, or Textiles preferred.
2. 10+ years progressive leadership experience in apparel product development, sourcing, and manufacturing.
3. 5+ years leading direct reports and cross-functional teams.
4. Demonstrated business savvy through analytical thinking, problem solving with in-depth knowledge of key performance indicators.
5. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; proven ability to think innovatively and strategically.
6. Deep technical product knowledge including strong understanding of vendor operations, safety, product compliance, creative and product development processes.
7. Demonstrated experience leading and influencing change.
8. Demonstrated ability to work independently, to set priorities and timelines, and meet challenging and changing deadlines.

Company Benefits:

1. 401k with company match.
2. Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision and Life/ADD Insurance.
3. Flexible and generous Paid Time Off policy.
4. Merchandise Discount.
5. Company Bonus.
6. Pet Insurance.
7. Boston Proper Values.
8. Team loves to work hard and have fun.