Product Management Assistant, Womens Polo RW, OW and Denim

Company Description

Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain organized information for samples, garment deliveries, and open issues
• Negotiate cost and delivery with sourcing offices, working directly with Manager/Lead on solutions and decisions. Communication must be timely, clear and concise.
• Ability to identify risks and highlight major issues to Manager/Lead
• Build OTB (ok to buy) plans with sourcing office and analize the informatioin to ensure that timing associated with fabric, production and logistics are in line. Review with Manager/Lead suggestions to solve timing issues.
• Drive communication with internal and external partners for updates on cost/delivery. (Design, PMT, Tech, Merchandising, Regional buyers, Sourcing Offices)
• Communicate PO updates with guidance on problematic styles
• In charge of scheduling and buliding the agendas for the CFT meetings
• Share & review calendar deadlines with sourcing offices. Drive adherance to key milestones like to input and finalize product costing in PLM with guidance
• Manage and monitor leadtimes from development to store with solution suggestions
• Organize the TOP (top of production) closet
• Pull samples from DC, TOP Closet, stores, fty if needed for any reviews.
• Assist with showroom sample receipts
• Ability to manage multiple seasons and projects with guidance.
• Meeting attendance to WIP, CFT, TBs, Wash and design meetings if timing allows
• Review and Monitor TNA set with sourcing offices and CFT with suggestions to solve issues with manager/lead.
• Clean up BOM Completeness
• TOP tracking and lead top reviews with CFT
• Fit and wash Status - track and recognize when there is prolonged submit date.
• SRS samples - learn issues and mitigation that may prevent on time arrival
• Begin to learn business analysis boucing off of Margin Roll
• System Maintenance and input is required to support all of the functions in our corporate system.
• Desire to learn about product life cycle
• Attend denim tradeshows and other learning opportunities offered throughout the city (Cotton Inc Seminars or FIT speakers)
• Attend and Participate in Shadeband meetings to begin to learn wash terminology and denim variances in bulk.
• Support the manager with specific responsibilities related to the entire end to end product life cycle.
  
  

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

• Knowledge of garment manufacturing process
• Knowledge of apparel product development; includes experience in the assigned product category
• Agile, nimble and solution oriented
• Actively displays curiosity, a desire to learn and grow, and an innovative mind-set
• Strong communication and cross-functional team collaboration skills; ability to partner closely with Design, Technical Design, Raw Materials, and Merchandising Teams, as well as Sourcing Offices
• Strong organizational skills with detailed attention to product information
• Embodies the CFAs of the RL Brand
• Understanding cross-functional relationships, taking initiative to problem-solve
• Strong presentation skills presenting to cross-functional partners
• Computer skills: Microsoft Office, Outlook, PLM, Airtable, Adobe XD, and O9