Old Navy
posted 3 months ago
At Old Navy, we are redefining the fashion industry by making it accessible and enjoyable for everyone. As an Associate Product Development Manager in Licensing, you will play a crucial role in supporting the ideation, development, implementation, and execution of our production and vendor capability strategy. Your focus will be on delivering value by effectively balancing innovation, quality, and cost. You will work within a highly matrixed global organization, collaborating with a cross-functional product team that includes Design, Merchandising, Tech Design, Quality Assurance, Sustainability, Fabric Research and Development, and Global Sourcing. Your attention to detail will be essential in ensuring that the product pipeline meets key milestones to satisfy product-to-market (P2M) demands. In this position, you will be responsible for creating seasonal strategies that limit our exposure to buying fabrics before line adoption. You will execute a vendor engagement strategy across various divisions and categories for both seasonal and fast pipelines, ensuring product availability at the product category level. Your ability to adapt team priorities in response to customer and business partner needs will be vital to your success in this role. Additionally, you will provide front-line supervision to an operational, service, or administrative team, ensuring that all processes run smoothly and efficiently.