Job Title
Company Name
The Workshop LA
Global men’s and women’s licensed apparel merchandise company seeks a Pre-Production Assistant to support the licensed merchandise process by managing product samples, ensuring on-time approvals, and coordinating across creative, production, and vendor teams. This role requires strong organization, communication, and Excel skills, along with the ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. Based full-time onsite in West LA. ESSENTIAL DUTIES-Work closely with Senior & Assistant Production Manager, along with sales & creative, to ensure all samples are executed correctly & in a timely fashion.-Create & maintain all item set ups when sales team requests new items to assign style numbers.-Handle Purchase Order Form (POF) requests from sales team & coordinate with creative team to collect art links/SEP files. Push and set priorities internally with creative team for art links/SEP files. Information needs to be organized in the creative tracker & sample tracker.-Manage sample inventory, tracking product & hitting deadlines. Working with manufacturers/vendors to resolve issues during the sample process.-Provide feedback and continued liaison for required revisions/re-samples with vendors, keeping sales managers & production team updated throughout process.-Maintain & update sample tracker WIP to keep all sampling organized and follow up with vendors in a timely fashion. Manages workflow, prioritizing consistent follow through with factories on proto and pre-production sampling.-Set sampling priorities with vendors based on PO’s and desired deliveries.-Send out weekly WIPS to vendors to push for all updates on sample ETA’s -Collect all sample images from vendors and send off for brand manager/licensor approval upon receipt (time sensitive) after creative signs off.-Communicate approval comments and corrections to internal and external channels; trackers, factories/vendors, and partners as applicable.-Coordinate all sample tracking from vendors and ship physical samples to retailers.-Review sample requests and identify any sampling/production concerns and provide possible solutions. Communicate necessary information to respective teams.-Brainstorm new processes that promote efficiencies with order ingestion.
Required Skills
Associate
Job Details
- Job Type: Full-time