Head of Operations

Company: The Forecast Agency
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

The Forecast Agency creates superior apparel products through creativity, innovation and integrity. We are looking for a full time Head of Operations to develop and strengthen our internal processes and teams, as well as oversee and maintain innovative processes within our business model. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: --- Act as the cross-functional partner to Production, Accounting, Sales and Logistics teams by understanding and streamline all upcoming order production costs and changes. --- Define and maintain operational excellence and put in place processes, goals, and establish optimal margins. --- Work on improving payment terms, discounts and rates with various vendors. --- Continuously work to identify areas of improvement and establish new processes accordingly with a growing team. This includes documenting processes and systems within the team to ensure minimal oversight when liaising between internal teams alongside the Controller. --- Uphold department budgets as determined alongside the Controller. Manage inventory levels, cost, margin analysis and maintaining levels, 3PL and various other warehouse and logistic processes/levels/deals. --- Identify key MOQs, Margins, and factory partners that fit within our business strategy for optimal revenue. --- Work to strengthen our relationships with vendors and factories, while also actively sourcing new external partners to work with. --- Working alongside the Production, Logistics, Sales, and Accounting teams, plan and streamline inventory, logistics, and fulfillment for wholesale and DTC. --- Negotiate pricing and payment terms with partners and vendors as needed, working continuously improve processes and decrease lead/cycle times. Reduce costs and increase on time delivery, while ensuring minimal to no chargebacks are incurred. --- Work closely with Head of Sales to strategically decide on new key accounts to pursue, key margin thresholds, and inventory offloading. --- Use historical and current data to analyze shipping patterns to and from our factory partners for cost and time optimization. --- Prepare specific daily, weekly, and monthly operating reports as required via NetSuite, including open order reports, and other ad hoc reports as needed. Requirements --- 7+ year in a high-level management position required. --- Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited college or university, as well as extensive demonstrated experience in the Business Operations space. --- Demonstrated ability to lead and maintain a team with little to no oversight; The ideal candidate has strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Ability to multitask on multiple high-level time-sensitive projects with hard deadlines. --- Mentorship minded leader with the ability to manage employees and expectations within their team / cross-teams, as well as work directly with co-owners and external finance partners. --- Experience with start-up, early-stage company, and/or quick growing company a huge plus. --- Exceptional communication skills, as well as systems/software aptitude - ERP systems, Microsoft, and fashion/manufacturing integrated software. --- Fashion/manufacturing background a plus, but not required. This is a full time, exempt position. Position is currently remote-based, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our physical office is in DTLA. Our perks include generous medical, vision, and dental options, 3 weeks accrued PTO, and over two weeks of paid holidays!

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