Product Development/Production Assistant - Accessories & Footwear - Cult Gaia : Job Details

Position: Product Development/Production Assistant - Accessories & Footwear

Cult Gaia is a women's fashion brand based in Los Angeles. We are looking for an intelligent, hard-working candidate to support the Accessories and Footwear division with development and production of both categories.

As the Product Development / Production Assistant you would assist in all day-to-day deliverables related to factory production timelines, order placement & maintenance, tracking, & ensure all WIP charts are up to date. In addition, you would work cross functionally with PD, Design, Merch, Planning, Sales & Logistics on a daily basis. The right candidate would be a motivated team player and self-starter. This role is critical to the Product Development and Production structures for Cult Gaia

This position will report to the Senior Manager of Product Development & Production.

Responsibilities:

• Support adherence to calendar milestones / deadlines, ensuring on-time production deliveries.
• Maintain consistent, clear & concise communication with internal and external partners.
• Work closely with PD / Design team, ensuring all PP & TOP samples are approved & following T&A calendar.
• Netsuite maintenance, including but not limited to – Purchase Orders, XFTY & NDC accuracy, SKU information accuracy, & UPC distribution.
• Assist with material library / color standard management in office and WFX.
• Assist PD with tech pack hand-offs.
• Alert Managers of all urgent matters, offering solutions to troubleshoot any production related issues.
• Generate and maintain WIPs for all current seasons.

Required Skills:

• Proficient in Microsoft applications
• Experience with WFX & NetSuite is a plus.
• Experience working effectively in complex global organizations, satisfying the needs of a multitude of cross functional teams, and often working under the pressure of competing and sometimes conflicting priorities.
• Effective communicator
• Apply problem solving techniques and skills
• Motivated team player and self-starter
• Strong organization skills
• Exceptional attention to detail

• Be Passionate: Love your craft, contribute your ideas, foster debate, take initiative, our members feel this come through everything we do.
• Be Great at Your Job: Demonstrate the specific areas of technical excellence appropriate to your level and role, contribute relevant developments from your field to keep us cutting edge, share knowledge, and teach others.
• Be Entrepreneurial and Accountable: Make responsible decisions as if it were your own business, continually improve how we work and what we offer, follow-through on deliverables, proactively managing expectations, hold others to a high standard, minimize bureaucracy, respond effectively to change, challenges and the pace of our business, take ownership for our success, keep our members in mind.
• Do the Right Work: Manage your tasks to meet your deliverables, organize your time so you can succeed, understand how your work impacts the business, think strategically to solve the right problems, proactively raise questions and issues that need attention, prioritize the most important work to help us achieve our goals.
• Be a Team Player: Pitch in when needed, listen to others' concerns, identify dependencies within and across teams, be aware of your impact, keep others informed, collaborate effectively to ensure collective success.
• Learn and Grow: Stretch and challenge yourself to keep learning, ask for help, apply feedback, look for where you can improve, keep developing in your role, continually increase your contribution to results.

BENEFITS:

• Anthem Medical, Dental & Vision + Dependent Coverage
• 401k with Company Matching
• Pet Insurance
• 120 hours of vacation days, with the ability to accrue up to 180 hours
• Paid sick days per year
• Employee discount
• Annual Clothing Allowance