Company Overview
Club Monaco is an international men’s and women’s lifestyle brand with a distinctly urban casual point of view, best defined as a play of opposites: mixing vintage with new, hard with soft and eclecticism with minimalism. Each season, Club Monaco offers customers must have fashion and key pieces that together are the foundation of a modern wardrobe. This opportunity is onsite 5 days a week in NYC.
Role and Responsibilities
- Drive seasonal fabric development and sourcing working with design and merchandising to understand business needs, target margins and calendar deadlines from development through production.
- Meet with mill partners regularly to make tailored fabric selections based on seasonal needs keeping in mind cost, lead time, and minimums.
- Negotiate cost seasonally
- Nominate and partner with key mills
- Drive the fabric ordering process at proto, sales sample, and bulk stages.
- Coordinate and track proto, sales sample, and bulk fabric shipments. Ensure PI goes out on time from vendors to mills at every stage
- Partner with manager to develop and track seasonal fabric and print budgets
- Meet fabric deliverables as per calendar.
- Regularly update and maintain seasonal fabric charts and communicate details/changes with cross functional teams.
- Work in conjunction with the Hong Kong office to confirm fabric detail sheets and create Material ID numbers in Flex PLM.
- Initiate lab dip, strike off and handloom requests with mills advising clear calendar deadlines.
- Check in lab dips, strike offs and handlooms upon receipt and review with design and advise comments back to mills.
- Maintain the fabric library, regularly making space for new headers, purging outdated headers, and maintaining core archives.
- Review fabric test reports to ensure company guidelines and standards are met and send approval comments.
- Bulk submit approvals
- Partner with cross functional teams to achieve objectives related to cost, delivery, and quality.
- Communicate material quality standards to mills.
- Offer expertise on fabric construction, innovation, and technical aspects.
- Willingness to travel abroad seasonally as needed.
Experience and Qualifications
- Flex PLM
- Strong Technical background
- Proficient in Excel and Microsoft Office
- Strong time management skills
- Strong communication skills
- Clear understanding of dying, printing, and finishing techniques
- Self-starter
- Detail oriented
For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in New York, Club Monaco includes a reasonable estimate of the salary or hourly rate range for this role. This accounts for the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions; including but not limited to business or organizational needs, skill sets, experience and training, licensure, and certifications.
A reasonable estimate of the current base salary range is $80,000 per year to $85,000 per year.
Top Skills
What We Do
Club Monaco was founded in 1985 around the idea of “better basics”—creating classic, effortless, and versatile pieces that allow our customers to live with ease.
We searched for these pieces in the beginning, but we couldn’t find them. So, we made them ourselves. Through it all, our love of the details—the texture, form, fabric, design—has never gone away. For the people who share our same desire, we consider you part of our Club.
