Director of Operations for Sustainable Children’s Clothing Company

We are helping the most amazing, start-up children’s clothing company find their senior Director of Operations. You should have a Bachelor’s degree,

5 plus years of experience in an upper management position managing finances, operations, productions and people (Previous startup and business development experience in the Fashion Industry). You should have a love for children, the planet, start-ups as well as be a team player and want to have your hands in many areas of the business.

More specific job details listed below:

Playing a leading role in compiling yearly company budget and growth strategy (setting KPI in all areas of the business)
Executing strategies to optimize company and growth
Planning and carrying out cost-effective business development and marketing activities
Ensuring expertise and effectiveness across operations productions
Creating financial reports and budgets
Managing accounting and bank processes – wire transfers payments to vendors
Identifying and addressing potential problems and opportunities for the company
Director of operations will directly report to the Founder CEO
In person position for about 60% of the time: HQ in soho, NYC
DTC strategies plus implementation
Production plus Product sampling – coordination between Founder, production team- insuring shipping of samples is done on time and insuring controlling the payment of the vendors.
Wholesale – coordination with Director of Sales and showrooms plus distribution help support the sales team during tradeshows (booth planning, securing, and coordinating with vendors)
Warehouse – coordination with warehouse in case of issues when production arrives for system implementation and synchronization with department back-end systems.
Marketing – keeping the marketing calendar up to date, coming up with ideas and proposals regarding marketing initiatives with the Founder and insuring the well planning and implementation of it.
Communication PR tradeshows – coordination with PR companies on any needed tasks : events, product placements seeding
Website – updates maintenance coordination with web agency
Photoshoots – helping source location, talents plus coordination prior, during and post production

Due to the large amount of applicants, we will only respond if your experience meets the clients needs.