Job Description

Title: Senior Manager - Production

Company Name: Cobalt Fashion Bangladesh Ltd.

Vacancy: --

Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:
∎ At least 8 years

Published: 23 Jan 2024

Education:
∎ Degree in Clothing, Textile Merchandising or related discipline preferred

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 8 years' relevant experience with at least 2 years in managerial level
∎ Strong product and material knowledge, and familiar with merchandising and product development process
∎ Able to work under pressure, result oriented, excellent communication skills, self-motivated, responsive and detail minded
∎ Ability to build strong relationships with the team as a good team leader, communicate effectively with internal and external parties
∎ Strong problem solving skills.  Able to manage multiple tasks environment
∎ Excellent command of written and spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin
∎ Literate in Microsoft office programs
∎ Frequent travel is required
∎ Minimum 8 years' relevant experience with at least 2 years in managerial level
∎ Strong product and material knowledge, and familiar with merchandising and product development process
∎ Able to work under pressure, result oriented, excellent communication skills, self-motivated, responsive and detail minded
∎ Ability to build strong relationships with the team as a good team leader, communicate effectively with internal and external parties
∎ Strong problem solving skills.  Able to manage multiple tasks environment
∎ Excellent command of written and spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin
∎ Literate in Microsoft office programs
∎ Frequent travel is required

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Plan, allocate and monitor production schedules to ensure on-time delivery.
∎ Manage the team to ensure team effectiveness and efficiency.
∎ Provide technical advice/support to factories and colleagues to solve production issues.
∎ Provide technical advice on pattern making/sample fitting/sample construction, etc.
∎ Manage the team to monitor production progress and solve production issues.
∎ Assess factories’ facilities and resources to determine production capability.
∎ Review factories’ material reports to ensure that adequate stock for production is in place.
∎ Review factories’ strengths and capabilities and improvement areas.
∎ Work with colleagues to solve production issues that review and discuss customer comments with colleagues.
∎ Provide advice to factories to ensure that customers requirements are met.
∎ Provide suggestions to factories to enhance product quality and production processes.
∎ Bring innovative approaches to the production functional areas that continuously improve our ability to deliver faster, better and cheaper solutions.
∎ Collaborate closely with category management, merchandising, design, engineering and marketing teams – identifying requirements, ensuring clarity on prioritization, and create advance visibility into site roadmap.
∎ Supervise and motivate a team of workers and liaising among different department.
∎ Drive a tight daily and weekly site release process, managing production teams - including web production, test, catalog management, program management - to quality and efficient execution against tight deadlines.
∎ Partner closely working relationship and create processes with third-party e-commerce vendors to ensure seamless execution to ensure timelines and business needs are met.
∎ Create shift work schedules and coordinate requested vacation time coverage to maintain production schedule and weekly schedule required to meet production requirements.
∎ Review and analyze production and operational reports and trending to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.
∎ Perform other duties as assigned by Management.
∎ Job Context
∎ Cobalt Fashion (Bangladesh) Ltd is a member of Fung Group - a Hong Kong-based multi- national company recognized as the world leader in fashion supply chain management is currently looking for a highly experienced individual based in Bangladesh who will lead Production Operations. A career at Cobalt Fashion means you will be part of a global team specializing in all points of the fashion supply chain process including product design, production management, quality control, logistics, sustainability and internal operations.
∎ Job Responsibilities
∎ Plan, allocate and monitor production schedules to ensure on-time delivery.
∎ Manage the team to ensure team effectiveness and efficiency.
∎ Provide technical advice/support to factories and colleagues to solve production issues.
∎ Provide technical advice on pattern making/sample fitting/sample construction, etc.
∎ Manage the team to monitor production progress and solve production issues.
∎ Assess factories’ facilities and resources to determine production capability.
∎ Review factories’ material reports to ensure that adequate stock for production is in place.
∎ Review factories’ strengths and capabilities and improvement areas.
∎ Work with colleagues to solve production issues that review and discuss customer comments with colleagues.
∎ Provide advice to factories to ensure that customers requirements are met.
∎ Provide suggestions to factories to enhance product quality and production processes.
∎ Bring innovative approaches to the production functional areas that continuously improve our ability to deliver faster, better and cheaper solutions.
∎ Collaborate closely with category management, merchandising, design, engineering and marketing teams – identifying requirements, ensuring clarity on prioritization, and create advance visibility into site roadmap.
∎ Supervise and motivate a team of workers and liaising among different department.
∎ Drive a tight daily and weekly site release process, managing production teams - including web production, test, catalog management, program management - to quality and efficient execution against tight deadlines.
∎ Partner closely working relationship and create processes with third-party e-commerce vendors to ensure seamless execution to ensure timelines and business needs are met.
∎ Create shift work schedules and coordinate requested vacation time coverage to maintain production schedule and weekly schedule required to meet production requirements.
∎ Review and analyze production and operational reports and trending to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.
∎ Perform other duties as assigned by Management.

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Company Information:
∎ Cobalt Fashion Bangladesh Ltd.
∎ Business Description: At Cobalt, knitwear is our passion. We`re at the forefront of the global knitwear industry, working as the go-to source for global retailers and brands. We are product specialists who create beautiful trend-driven knitwear by utilizing our extensive knowledge of yarn, experienced technical and manufacturing know-how; leveraging our market intelligence and competitive sourcing capabilities to work for our customers. With speed and innovation leading the way we work, we use the latest in digital technology and work processes to constantly redefine the knitwear industry.
Website URL: https://www.cobaltknitwear.com/
Nature of Company: Buying House, Multinational Company

Business::
∎ Business Description: At Cobalt, knitwear is our passion. We`re at the forefront of the global knitwear industry, working as the go-to source for global retailers and brands. We are product specialists who create beautiful trend-driven knitwear by utilizing our extensive knowledge of yarn, experienced technical and manufacturing know-how; leveraging our market intelligence and competitive sourcing capabilities to work for our customers. With speed and innovation leading the way we work, we use the latest in digital technology and work processes to constantly redefine the knitwear industry.Website URL: https://www.cobaltknitwear.com/Nature of Company: Buying House, Multinational Company

Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job

Application Deadline: 31 Jan 2024

Category: Production/Operation