Job Type
Full-time
Description
Overview:
The Product Integrity Manager will ensure global execution of Haddad Brand's chemical management and product integrity program vision to meet and exceed the product safety & compliance expectations of its licensors.
Key Accountabilities:
- Remain current on industry, licensor and global product integrity obligations/developments to manage product going into each region
- Strategize and develop standards, train expectations, and monitor new factories to ensure factory-based compliance
- Assist global teams to ensure factories consistently demonstrate safe manufacturing processes
- Analyze audit & test results to ensure compliance regarding chemical and safety requirements
- Manage failure remediation, administrate root cause analyses, and develop future preventative measures
- Partner with Haddad overseas testing coordinators as necessary to troubleshoot and pass seasonal testing and documentation requirements
- Conduct seasonal product risk assessments to support product safety across all brands, while troubleshooting with Sourcing and engaging Design
- Identify, troubleshoot and elevate systems and process constraints that impede program progress as needed
- Develop effective working partnerships with peers in Sourcing, Design, overseas Merchandising, Quality Assurance teams, licensors and Third Party Service Providers to support program execution
- Cultivate essential skills needed to recruit, train and develop top talent
- Special projects as assigned
Requirements
Required Skills/Abilities/Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Management or apparel-related Sciences
- 3-5+ years of experience in designing, developing or manufacturing children's wear (experience in garment manufacturing environment a plus)
- Strong mastery of international safety regulations affecting children's apparel products & accessories
- Self-starter/multi-tasker with ability to problem-solve in a fast paced business environment
- Excellent organizational and communication skills with high attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively with remote and multi-cultural teams
- Ability to travel up to 30%
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and database management
- Basic knowledge of foundational chemistry
- Experience with AS400 database and/or PLM a plus
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.
Salary Description
$75,000 - $110,000 per year
