Anthropologie · 4 hours ago
Category Manager - Sweaters
Philadelphia, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelAnthropologie is looking for a category-specific leader to facilitate and execute Design’s vision through the management of pre-production processes and production workflows. The role involves strong collaboration with partners, managing brand initiatives, and providing training and support to team members.
BeautyEdiscoveryFashionLifestyleRetail
Hiring Manager
Ann Burton
Responsibilities
Manage brand initiatives and goals
Create and manage monthly forecast by factory, and annual mill strategy by provided operations calendar deadlines measured by monthly book to date reconciliation
Control final allocations
Develop and maintain relationships with vendors to ensure successful business partnerships
Analyze industry trends to proactively identify supply base issues to reduce cost, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit emerging opportunities that benefit the brand
Book fabrics and manage deliveries, and liabilities. Reviewed at quarterly mill review
Initiate and book early fabric commitments
Collaborate between stakeholders to create calendar and meet deadlines as measured by seasonal calendar actualization report
Outline and communicate brand and category strategy based on Trend meeting
Improve adoption rates over specific time period and hit approved line plan style count measured by seasonal line plan actualization
Manage commitments and order placements
Calculate and manage rolling and final IMUs at order placement for variance IMU analysis
Strategize brand business opportunities including freight modes for distribution center receipt, flow, and margin opportunity
Manage product development and production process for merchant direct product
Provide IMU targets and guidance to team to negotiate final costing with vendors ensuring margins are met or exceeded
Assess and develop staff. Build the appropriate team to ensure effective day to day management of each business group and accurate and readily available records and reports
Coach staff to generate creative solutions
Ability to lead change, and coach team to respond to a rapidly changing business environment
Facilitate corporate initiative of global work shift to support international expansion
Coordinate and facilitate team to deliver aesthetically correct samples that meet Design’s vision and the Merchant’s requirements
Facilitate team to maintain and manage the pre-production time and action and production work-in-process
Qualification
Required
Significant leadership experience managing large teams working in a fast paced environment
Experience traveling overseas to evaluate vendors and to determine areas of improvement
Supervise subordinates' responsibilities to ensure accomplishment of department goals and deadlines
Promote the development of subordinates through supervision and training
Pro-actively approach problem solving
Implement operational efficiencies
Adapt quickly to changes
Driven by deadlines with a high sense of urgency
Company
Anthropologie
Anthropologie is a clothing company that offers clothing, jewelry, home furnishings, decoration, beauty, and gifts.
Founded in 1992
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
A
Anu Narayanan
President
Chris Milligan
Sr. Director of Business Integration for Anthropologie
Recent News
2025-12-12
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