Leeann Steffen Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

- Responsible for entire development and bulk production of Women’s knitwear and manager of the first-ever athletic line. Including sportswear, loungewear, and activewear.- Manage all costing from initial development to bulk negotiations achieving margin goals.- Coordinate entire production cycle from material sourcing, and initial sampling, to final bulk production. Track multiple fabric mills and factory deliveries for several seasons simultaneously.- Partner with design to resolve project issues while ensuring timely communication between all necessary departments on product status. - Driven to find creative sourcing strategies and improve operation efficiency with Asia-based vendors in an ever-changing and complex industry.

Greater New York City Area

- Responsible for Production concentrating on sweaters and cut+sew product categories for Women's and Men's Elie Tahari Collection, Private Label brands, T-Tahari, and Off-Price divisions. - Source affordable yarns, fabrics, and trims and presented select options to design for styles with unworkable margins.- Schedule and conduct seasonal meetings with mills, vendors, and agents on materials and finished goods.- Supervise fittings to ensure adherence to production timelines and alignment of final product with buyer's expectations- Partner with Director of Knitwear Production to confirm factory and mill deliveries while communicating updates in interdepartmental time and action meetings- Gather relevant information for internal departments to solve production-related issues while keeping garment deliveries- Assisted with costing negotiations from initial development pricing to confirming final bulk production approval

Greater New York City Area

- Manage all yarn and knit fabric lab dips and prints; source trims, notions and materials - Track all fit, photo-shoot, and account TOP samples- Review fabric/yarn test reports and approve care/content labels- Work across all price-level divisions for Men's and Women's wear

Greater New York City Area

- Maintained styles and purchase orders in ACS- Created purchase orders and tracked deliveries for all salesmen samples for market- Placed orders for fabric- Created and maintained manual for importing garments to Mexico- Daily contact with vendors and factories overseas to get high quality garments produced and delivered to the customer on time.

Communicated daily with factories overseas and tracked all materials for products; became responsible for collecting all testing reports for each knitwear design, assisted in creating cut-tickets and purchase-orders; helped update shipping dates and important dates in BMS; tracked and logged all liability yarns; followed all samples through fittings; assisted in preparing costing sheets.

B2 Proficiency In Italian Language, Italian Language

May 2014 to August 2014 5 days a week, 6 hours a day Grammar and Conversation

Bs, Apparel Production And Sourcing; Minor In Political Science; Minor In Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Blood Drive Design and Technology Executive-3 semesters, Moda Fashion Club-1 semester, President of Political.

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