PRODUCT APPROVAL ASSISTANT

Job Type

Haddad is a privately held family business with over 70 years of experience in the children’s wear apparel and accessories industry. Haddad is the leading children’s wear manufacturer representing the most iconic American brands in the world; Nike, Brand Jordan, Converse, Hurley and Levi’s. Our talented professionals are leaders in design, sourcing, sales and global distribution. With over 15 locations and 800 employees globally, it is no surprise that we are already the number one children’s wear company in the world.

Overview:

The Product Approval Assistant will support the Product Approval team to ensure bulk fabric, art execution and trims are approved to Haddad Brands and licensors’ standards to drive product execution and on-time deliveries.

Key Accountabilities:

• Assist the Product Approval Manager and/or Product Approval Director throughout the entire approval process, including approving fabric qualities, wash, lab dips, artwork, accessories, trims and pre-production samples in a timely manner
• Partner with overseas vendors and offices to ensure timely delivery of all submissions and approvals
• Monitor deadlines and approval milestones in the tracking system for all submits and pre-production samples
• Organize and maintain seasonal boards, directive assortments and design catalogs by brand
• Create and present seasonal risk assessments to sourcing and design teams to avoid quality and execution issues
• Create risk hind-sight post season to further improve development process with factories
• Sort and distribute submits from overseas to Design teams daily and prioritize by delivery date
• Organize and send back QRS samples to Nike corporate with comments
• Hang and maintain pre-production sample rack
• Special projects as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities/Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Production Management, Fashion Merchandising or related field
• 1+ years of experience in related field and/or strong internship experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Excellent organizational and communication skills with attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced environment

Consistent in-office presence is vital to the role as it is for all Haddad Brands team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.