Associate Product Development Manager, Old Navy Licensing

Gap, Inc.

$90K — $120K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in production and vendor management within the retail sector
  • Proven ability to manage and execute strategies in a global, matrixed organization
  • Strong analytical skills for optimizing product lines
  • Experience with cross-functional collaboration in product development
  • Ability to adapt priorities to changing business and customer needs

Responsibilities

  • Create seasonal strategies to minimize fabric purchasing risk before product line adoption
  • Implement a vendor engagement strategy for various product divisions and categories
  • Ensure product availability aligns with seasonal and fast market demands
  • Develop and enhance analytical processes post Line Adoption
  • Supervise and support operational or administrative teams

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work within a highly collaborative, cross-functional team
  • Exposure to innovative production techniques and global vendor networks
  • Support for professional development and career growth
  • Dynamic work environment that adapts to market demands
Full Job Description
About the Role
In this role, you are accountable for supporting the ideation, development, implementation and execution of the Gap Inc production and vendor capability strategy, delivering value through effectively balancing innovation, quality, and cost. You will be able to operate in a highly matrixed global organization, forming part of the cross functional product team (Design, Merchandising, Tech Design, Quality Assurance, Sustainability, Fabric Research and Development and Global Sourcing). You will be able to execute with strong attention to detail to ensure the product pipeline meets key milestones to meet product to market (P2M) demands.What You'll Do
  • Create seasonal strategies to limit our exposure to buying fabrics pre line adoption

  • Execute a vendor engagement strategy across divisions and categories for both seasonal and fast pipelines

  • Ensure product availability for seasonal and fast pipelines at the product category level

Who You Are
  • Develop the analytic process required to optimize post Line Adoption

  • Adapt team priorities to respond to customer and business partner needs

  • Provide front line supervision to an operational, service, or administrative team

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