maurices hiring Manager, Sourcing Operations - maurices in Duluth, Minnesota, United States | LinkedIn (2024)

Brand Overviewmaurices is a women’s apparel retailer that celebrates feel good fashion for real life. It’s committed to its service with style promise and offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend and all of life’s adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0-24, maurices is famous for its versatile styles including key categories such as denim, dresses, tops, and more. Established in 1931, maurices operates 935 stores in communities across North America. Discover even more fashion at maurices.com.

Ready to apply? We currently have an opportunity for a Manager, Sourcing Operations - maurices to join our team located at our Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802.

Ready to help bring feel good fashion for real life™ to hometowns across North America? Join our family of amazing individuals in our corporate office in Duluth, Minnesota, ranked one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2019. Since 1931, we’ve helped women look and feel their best every day — making maurices not only a special place to shop, but a great place to work and connect. Apply today!

Position OverviewGeneral Description

The Product Operations Manager works across the product teams to ensure smooth execution of the product lifecycle (PLC) development process and supports efficient operations of the Integrated Product Team (IPT). Responsibilities include documenting objectives for and ensuring timely scheduling of milestone meetings, continually assessing processes and adapting charters to ensure operational effectiveness. Acts as a business super user/owner of the PLC calendar (Product Life Cycle). Tracks and prioritizes PLC related issues, questions, and enhancement requests.

With regard to supplier management, this role executes new supplier set-up and onboarding processes and partners with Product Management, Supply Chain, Compliance, and Product Integrity teams to ensure suppliers are aware of important brand policies and manuals. As the owner of this process, the Product Operations Manager is best able to analyze trends in new supplier onboarding and active supplier management and provide the Product Management & Sourcing team with key insights, identify issues, and provide solutions.

As needed, the Product Operations Manager also supports the execution of IPT initiatives that focus on growth and operational excellence.

Performance requirements

Specific areas of responsibility: PLC Calendar, Supplier Onboarding and Management, Operational Efficiency, Product Operations Systems Support

Product Life Cycle Calendar

• Manage annual creation of product lifecycle (PLC) calendar for internal and external use
• Manage scheduling of milestone meetings
• Create and maintain key milestone meeting charters and agendas
• Create and update PLC calendar support tools. This may include training materials, process documentation, and standard operating procedures (manuals, job aids and FAQ references).
• Support and/or deliver new associate training on PLC expectations
• Support continuous improvement of meetings and PLC cadence to maximize business; including facilitating cross-functional discussions to resolve process challenges and share best practices

Supplier Onboarding and Management

• Manage new supplier set-up process:
• Coordinate with Sourcing, Trade, CSR for approvals to set-up
• Communicate new supplier set-up process expectations to internal and external stakeholders and execute system set up (Bamboo Rose, Retek, Oracle)
• Escalate issues to each stakeholder for resolution as necessary
• Communicate brand process and policy updates to suppliers
• Maintain accurate supplier records within Bamboo Rose system
• Bi-annual supplier management system clean-up (Confluence, Bamboo Rose, Oracle)
• Manage scheduling and coordinate in-person supplier visits to Duluth Merchandising team during Vendor Handoff and Market Week
• Coordinate data collection for supplier performance objectives and create annual vendor scorecard.
  

Operational Efficiency

• Support ad-hoc process improvement projects that impact the Integrated Product Team as needed. Responsibilities may include serving as a project lead or subject matter expert (SME) where needed.
• Support operational efficiency and continuous improvement of processes – may include drafting new process and policy documentation

Product Operations Systems Support

• Learn how internal and external product teams are expected to use various systems to support PLC expectations
• Draft system training materials for internal and external partners
• Serve as first point of contact for internal and/or external partners when they experience issues with product operations systems (Bamboo Rose, PO receipt, price ticket ordering)
• Determine whether internal and/or external product system users are not following the appropriate process or are experiencing a technical issue/system failure; partner with IT to resolve system failures as necessary.

Work Experience And Education Requirements

• 5-7 years’ related work experience in Product, Sourcing and/or operational role
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Good understanding of retail business and product lifecycle; prefer specific experience in apparel industry
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Excellent organizational skills and process management experience
• Strong information seeking and problem-solving skills; ability to analyze complex, cross-functional problems and develop actionable recommendations
• Able to work independently, proactively and collaboratively
• Strong relationship-building skills and ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships
• Ability to adjust priorities in an ambiguous environment and mange time wisely in a fast-paced environment with limited direction
• Ability to learn new systems and applications, document process expectations, and train others
• Outstanding communication (verbal and written) skills; able to document and articulate system & process related topics to varied audiences

Location:Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802

Position TypeRegular/Full time

Equal Employment OpportunityThe Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all personnel actions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.