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Portland, Oregon Area

Lead Social Responsibility team focusing on improving labor conditions, building worker empowerment programs and driving stakeholder engagement on labor and human rights issues.

Portland, Oregon Area

Provide leadership and strategic direction for Columbia Sportswear's social responsibility and sustainability programs regarding operations, Corporate Responsibility initiatives and stakeholder engagement.

Led product development, sourcing, and costing functions for a variety of product groups. Directly managed the product commercialization process from design to manufacturing. Selected development method and influenced the supporting work done by liaison offices and factory partners. Drove design integrity, quality, costing and calendar management. Created an effective sourcing strategy to achieve goals of quality, delivery, and social compliance.

Managed team of 7 Developers in commercializing over 600 global apparel styles. Drove regional process calendars, business strategies, and product quality requirements.* Enabled faster-to-market sales opportunities by creating new quick-turn supply chain models. Delivered products in 5-60 days instead of a 14 month calendar* Successfully transitioned development processes and staff from a U.S. regional to a global organization. Created standardized and scalable global processes and achieved all process metrics during this transition.* Simplified and focused global blank t-shirt product offering by crafting a harmonized fit, fabric and quality strategy. Reduced global offering from 80 to 18 silhouettes.

Directed sourcing, costing, and margin analysis of 350 styles for the U.S market. Led a team of 5 Developers and 1 Materials Manager, and 1 Print Project Manager in commercializing these styles.• Increased t-shirt sales and speed-to-market by driving the creation of a blank safety stock program for men’s, women’s and boy’s t-shirt.• Created a centralized product center of excellence for t-shirt development that serviced all genders and product groups. Successfully transitioned responsibilities and staff from liaison office in Mexico to Beaverton.• Built in-season replenishment models: test and roll, menu programs, and account specific quick turn offerings.Improved sales of mall-based accounts by training licensee to commercialize and manufacture Nike products.

Led development of kid’s cut-and-sew styles, t-shirts and outerwear for the U.S. market. Managed a team of 5 Developers and 2 Technical Designers in commercializing 300 boys and girls styles.* Reduced product development costs and commercialization time lines by formalizing an on-site proto approval process at factory and liaison offices in Asia.* Improved gross margins by creating a robust pre-costing process and by revamping the process by which men’s and women’s styles were replicated in the kid’s line.* Created clear career paths within the organization by differentiating roles, restructuring workload and creating a mentorship structure.

Managed a team 4 Developers in commercializing 250 men's t-shirt and head-wear styles. Streamlined and standardized development processes for Nike retail, special make-ups, and value channel.* Integrated head-wear styles into the apparel development process. This allowed sufficient time for prototyping, costing negotiations and insured on time delivery of sales samples.* Conducted a 'margin summit' to insure organizational understanding of margin targets, the costing process, and the costs associated with product attributes. * Drafted and presented 'The Apparel Product Life Cycle' in front of and audience of over 200 people at Nike's new employee orientation.

Managed 8 contract manufacturers, including Nike's largest apparel manufacturer, communicated purchase plans and established manufacturing reporting criteria.* Negotiated and resolved pricing, on-time delivery and capacity issues with factories in Central and South America, Mexico and Canada.* Drove best-in-class manufacturing by travelling to factories to conduct onsite factory audits, training, and providing ongoing factory performance feedback.* Reduced product costs, improved pricing margins, and decreased manufacturing lead-time by bringing onboard 3 new apparel factories in Central America.

Created monthly purchase plans, managed inventory levels and tracked inventory turns for multiple categories based on category initiatives and inventory management strategies* Synthesized customer needs and business strategies to create short term purchase plans and long-term inventory strategies.* Improved in-stock availability and order fill rates of soccer team product by collaborating with customer service and account reps to create a team purchase schedule.

Scheduled fabric production at internal fabric mill. Acted as liaison between home office planning groups and mill.*Improved weekly mill production and scheduling meeting by streamlining performance metrics and revamping weekly reports.* Improved mill delivery performance by refining scheduling mill criteria to focus on account priorities and profitability of internal and external customer orders.

M.A., International Economic Policy

B.A., Political Science