Senior Production Manager - Phone Accessories

Ready to join a fun, fashion tech brand with consistent growth and innovation? VelvetCaviar.com is looking for an experienced Senior Production Manager to manage the overseas manufacturing, ensure quality control, help innovate products, and maintain efficient stock levels while reducing inventory costs.

You will act as an essential bridge between the US team and our partnered manufacturers; reviewing samples, assigning purchase orders, tracking production, ensuring quality, and performing data analysis. To be successful as a Velvet Caviar production manager, you should have excellent communication, observational, analytical, and problem-solving skills. You should understand the manufacturing of plastic goods, printing, development, and technical data. You’ll work directly with the product development and design team. This is a great fit for someone who enjoys working in the supply chain and wants to be a key player in a rapidly growing brand with great growth opportunities!

ABOUT US:

Velvet Caviar is a leading phone accessories brand with over 1 Million social media followers and millions of customers, established in New York since 2015. We’re mostly known for pioneering the tech accessories market with our stylish phone cases and matching accessories. Our products can be found in national retailers and on thousands of celebrities and influencers worldwide! With a smaller team environment, Velvet Caviar is a great place for collaboration, personal development, and making an impact.

Visit our Instagram at @velvetcaviar and our website, velvetcaviar.com, to better understand the brand and product line.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Manage the full production lifecycle of Velvet Caviar’s accessories, from sample creation to bulk manufacturing & delivery
• Act as the primary liaison with overseas factories to ensure deadlines, quality, pricing, and product specifications are met
• Create and maintain a daily production Work-In-Progress (WIP) report for bulk production and marketing samples, escalating issues or delays to management
• Monitor inventory levels and submit timely restock orders (with support from the Inventory Controller)
• Create projection POs for new product orders, restocks, supplies; and submit approved POs to factories (with support from the Inventory Controller)
• Create cost analysis for products’ landed prices, and negotiate costs with vendors as needed
• Maintain a daily shipment tracking log and work with freight forwarders and warehouses to optimize delivery times, reduce costs, and resolve any shipping holdups
• Conduct cost analysis to determine the best shipping method to save cost (shipping via pallets or loose cartons, combining sample shipments from multiple factories, etc)
• Review vendor and freight invoices for accuracy, verify customs duties, and coordinate with Accounts Payable for timely payments
• Submit GRN for every packing list received from factories (includes samples, bulk), and provide SKU lists to warehouse teams for space planning and operational readiness (with support from the Inventory Controller)
• Generate and manage SKU and UPC codes for eCommerce and wholesale products, as well as retiring SKUs no longer in stock
• Enforce and refine Shipping and Packing Guidelines for eCommerce and Wholesale orders to ensure vendor compliance
• Monitor and enforce strict Quality Control standards for all partnered manufacturers
• Issue Chargeback to factories/forwarder for any incompliance per shipment per invoice
• Occasionally help source and screen new factories or vendors

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5 years of proven experience in eCommerce Production or Supply Chain
• Excellent communication skills; Mandarin fluency (preferred).
• Experience managing the entire production process from PO to delivery
• Experience working with foreign factories, mostly from China is preferred
• Strong mathematical skills and data analysis capabilities
• Strong attention to detail with hyper organization
• Experience in plastic molded products or tech accessories is helpful
• Comfortable with mixed work hours, occasional evenings
• Familiar with ERP system is a plus (Xorosoft, Netsuite, etc)

PERKS

• Be a key player in a growing brand!
• Strong Salary Performance Bonuses
• Nice office at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
• Hybrid days in office (Tue Thur)
• PTO Days Specified Holidays Off
• Health Insurance contribution offered
• Drinks, snacks, and team events

Velvet Caviar is an equal-opportunity employer committed to a diverse workplace environment.