Lubia Rodas Email & Phone Number

Shelton, Connecticut, US

• Innovative Product Manager with a focus on pillows, mattresses, toppers and furniture products. Drive product development, marketing, and management to meet customer needs and boost business growth.
• Market Research: Conduct research on customer preferences, industry trends, and competitors; identify opportunities for differentiation.
• Product Strategy: Develop product vision, goals, and roadmap; define target markets and positioning.
• Product Development: Collaborate with teams to create and enhance pillow products; draft PRDs.
• Pricing & Profitability: Set pricing strategies; monitor costs and margins for profitability.
• Product Launch: Plan and execute launches; manage marketing, sales coordination, and inventory.

New York, New York, US

• Oversee the entire product development and production cycle across a full line of soft goods home products including kids/adult bath and beach towels, bath rugs, kitchen towels, shower curtains, bath accessories
• Partner with cross functional teams: design and sales to lead and organize development projects
• Closely monitor the time and action calendar to ensure deadlines are met in a timely manner
• Create processes that are efficient for all departments
• Working with multiple customers and understanding their needs while also focusing on current business needs and trends
• Negotiate costing with vendors overseas. Identify and resolve bulk production issues with factories.

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Support end -to-end product development and production cycle
• Liaising among cross functional teams: design, tech design, merchandising, planning, and logistics
• Closely monitor the production calendar to meet deadlines
• Responsible for maintaining and updating data in Centric
• Responsible for the sample process from tracking fabric development for each season, reorder samples, proto and salesman samples
• Review Bulk submits for approval

Greenwich, CT, US

• Work with design team to create, review, maintain all spec sheets (prototype, sample lot, pricing/pre-production, approval, confirmation)
• Communicate all product and spec changes to foreign offices, production team and sales/merchandising
• Organize sketches for each season to create a legal project for new styles developed
• Responsible for submission and keeping track of all sample requests for photograph, catalog, and outside buys
• Work with tech team for fitting of approval samples
• Generate daily product hotlines for any pre-production changes

Stamford, CT, US

• Partnered with Marketing Manager to develop and approve promotional displays with novelty specific products for all key retailers across all product categories with in the division.
• Created key quarterly themed promotions that grow incremental business, contributing to divisional top line sales.
• Increased sales in Q4 2017 by 13% over last year
• Communicated across all departments including Creative and Sales as well as overseas factories.
• Assisted with follow-up to ensure timely deliveries on promotional programs.
• Assisted in customer meetings by presenting new products and packaging.

Gogarburn, GB

• Assisted employees in booking meeting rooms and arranged conferences.

• Specialized in customers’ needs / hotel services.

• Freelanced in Sales for Designer Chris Gramer at Designers and Agents for Spring 2014

• Scouted potential retailers/buyers for space in their stores. Showcased the line to buyers.
• Collaborated with designer in pattern making-cutting and sewing.

• Handled various accounts for the designers. Revised and submitted purchase orders into Showroom Exchange. Faxed over purchase orders to design offices, clients, and stores.
• Launched social media
• Participated in market week trade shows: Coterie ENK International, Designers and Agents NYC and New York Fashion Week Fall 2013. Organized appointments prior to market week. Assisted the account executive during the.

Los Angeles, California, US

Doral, FL, US

• Monitored and coordinated stages of production through PLM and PDM. Ensured purchase orders were provided to the production team along with delivery schedule.
• Developed marketing strategies in design, planning and sales team meetings.