About the Company:
Liquid Death is 100% natural mountain water from the Austrian Alps, served in ice-cold sustainable cans designed to murder your thirst.
Founded in January of 2019 and based in Los Angeles, California, Liquid Death is one of the nation’s fastest growing water brands taking a completely unnecessary approach to canned water. Unnecessary things tend to be far more interesting, fun, hilarious, captivating, memorable, exciting, and cult-worthy. Taking the world’s healthiest beverage and making it just as unnecessarily entertaining as the unhealthy brands has put Liquid Death on the map for BevNet’s Best Marketing in 2019, one of dot.LA’s hottestps in 2020, and Medium’s cult-worthy brands among a few accolades.
As Liquid Death continues to bring unnecessarily awesome canned water options to more people, Liquid Death is equally as excited to promote and help fund alternative art, music, and entertainment alongside the brand.
About the Job:
The Production Manager will be responsible for all aspects of merchandise production for all D2C, festival and wholesale channels of Liquid Death. This role will lead cross functional meetings to keep track and maintain the production calendar that will include deliverables, progress, and delays in merchandise while providing solutions to progress inefficiencies. In addition, the Production Manager will oversee all vendor shipments to maintain the delivery status while checking inventory control for raw and finished goods. This position will report directly to the VP of Apparel. This is a position located in Los Angeles, CA.
Responsibilities:
Manage all aspects of merchandise production for DTC, festival and wholesale channels of business.
Spearhead weekly progress meetings with vendors and review production status for current on order and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.
Create and maintain production calendar, purchasing, scheduling and inventory control for raw and finished goods with all vendors.
Lead weekly cross functional meetings covering pre-production and production deliverables updating pertinent internal departments with order progress, changing lead times and back-orders, bringing creative solutions to the table when confronted with delays.
Oversee vendor shipments, manage QA process and confirm warehouse receipts and coordinate and track timely receipt of PP/TOP samples.
Ensure customs compliance for Canadian imports.
Education & Experience:
3-5 years apparel production experience.
Premium apparel brand experience is a bonus.
Bachelor’s Degree in Apparel Production or equivalent experience.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Creative sourcing ability and roster of existing manufacturing resources.
Strong understanding of garment construction, manufacturing capabilities and materials.
Proficiency in managing multiple priorities and anticipating business demands while maintaining a high level of operational transparency and accountability.
Track record of building strong vendor relationships.
Great communication skills both verbal and written.
Results driven and solution oriented approach.
Knowledge of Netsuite or experience working in an ERP system.
Strong Excel skills.
Preferred:
CPG or relevant industry experience
Start up experience
Perks and Benefits
Fully remote workplace with an office in the works in Los Angeles
Awesome health benefits including medical, dental, vision, FSA
401(k) match
Flexible PTO policy
Paid Parental Leave
Free Liquid Death Mountain Water & merchandise
An unlimited sense of superiority over your office drone meat bag friends