Aje Production Manager

Over the last 14 years Aje has carefully built a culture where our people are supported, inspired and encouraged to be the best they can. Along with our incredible team, our brand has an intrinsic sense of duality, balancing toughness with femininity, untamed volume with structure and signature statement pieces alongside effortless essentials. These complementing differences are captured in Aje’s unique aesthetic and have contributed to the brand becoming one of Australia’s most influential fashion houses.

Aje Collective invites you to be a part of this new era as we have a new and exciting opportunity for a Production Manager to join our Head Office Team.

The Production Manager is responsible for managing and administering the production and manufacturing of Aje products across all categories, ensuring Aje standards are maintained and delivered through product quality, price architecture and the manufacturing processes. Ensuring consistencies across the entire collection, while maintaining delivery of product into retail stores and Wholesale customer accounts in full and on time.

As the Aje Production Manager your tasks will include:
Critical Path / Production
- Work closely with the Director of Design and Production to ensure seasonal timelines are maintained according to company wide critical path
- Seamlessly managing 3-4 seasons at one time.
- Responsible for the entire production schedule in delivering seasonal, monthly, and additional orders on time without any delay.
- Delivery on time and in full for all orders to the Aje Channels and Wholesale accounts, publishing each collection's production order date and deadlines for the merchandise and wholesale teams to work towards.
- Ensuring all risk and delay to production delivered is mitigated and reduced.
- Attend and participate in supplier allocation meetings.
- Organize, attend and document handover from design to production.
- Responsible for communicating, placing and confirming all purchase orders to all suppliers
- Responsible for negotiating the final production price, handover to FF date and Vessel SEA or AIR dates before any purchase orders are raised in Ap21.
- Accountable for managing the creation of accurate purchase orders in Ap21.
- Responsible for bulk raw material approval across all fabrics and trims.
- Responsible for verifying the “preferred fibers” target is met across each collection in production
- Responsible for reporting correct barcoding data for each collection and sharing this with the wider supply chain.
- Create and maintain a shared production tracker document
- Responsible for updating company systems and wider departments for all production related details.
- Monitoring, reporting and documenting all left over raw materials or fabric liabilities
- Management of production across all purchase orders, ensuring potential issues or concerns are communicated to key stakeholders in a timely manner
- Warrant that all suppliers adhere to the confirmed delivery window for each purchase order placed.
- Work closely and support the design, buying and merchandising teams to ensure quality products are delivered and the price architecture falls in line with company expectations and parameters
- Negotiate with all manufacturers to improve production costing and margins.
- Request and monitor Pre-Production and Shipment Samples in line with critical path key dates.
- Collaborate with the design team to ensure any issues that may affect production and delivery timelines are resolved with urgency
- Manage physical QC on delivered product where necessary with a final report produced to Director or Design & Production including the logistics team
- Weekly reporting in updates for Production to the Garment Tech Team and the Logistics Team.
- Maintain a strong production supply chain and transparent production model, which is aligned with Aje values, standards, and codes, which can be delivered and communicated to our customers and stakeholders
- Nurture and support all Aje vendor relationships, production manager being a key contact and relationship holder.
- Review, refine and Improve all tasks and procedures directly relating to, production, manufacturing with efficiency in cost savings.

Garment Tech and Product
- Work alongside Design, Product Development and Garment Tech departments to ensure all technical specs are clear and any measurement requests are consistent with the standard measurements.
- Provide a weekly update in a team forum setting to design and garment tech departments on workflow in line with critical path expectations.
- Request, inspect and assess pre-production and shipment samples with the garment tech team.
- Directly manage and resolve any issues which could impact delivery.
- Attend all production fit sessions for Pre Production and Shipment Sample.
- Ensure Pre Production and Shipment sample comments are processed within an acceptable timeframe
- Support all suppliers and the wider team to solve sp