About the job
About the Company:
Liquid Death is 100% natural mountain water from the Austrian Alps, served in ice-cold sustainable cans designed to murder your thirst.
Founded in January of 2019 and based in Los Angeles, California, Liquid Death is one of the nation’s fastest growing water brands taking a completely unnecessary approach to canned water. Unnecessary things tend to be far more interesting, fun, hilarious, captivating, memorable, exciting, and cult-worthy. Taking the world’s healthiest beverage and making it just as unnecessarily entertaining as the unhealthy brands has put Liquid Death on the map for BevNet’s Best Marketing in 2019, one of dot.LA’s hottest startups in 2020, and Medium’s cult-worthy brands among a few accolades.
As Liquid Death continues to bring unnecessarily awesome canned water options to more people, Liquid Death is equally as excited to promote and help fund alternative art, music, and entertainment alongside the brand.
About the Job:
The Production & Sourcing Manager works closely between the vendors, marketing, and product development teams to ensure all merch produced is within company timelines, quality standards and margin goals. This person is an experienced and organized individual who will provide day-to-day management of all purchase orders for Liquid Death. This role reports directly to the VP of Merch.
Responsibilities:
- Manage all aspects of production for DTC, festival and wholesale channels of business.
- Develop and creatively source all Liquid Death merchandise (multiple categories) with speed and premium quality in mind.
- Spearhead weekly progress meetings with vendors, manage WIP and effectively communicate issues or risks that may arise.
- Maintain accurate production calendar, purchasing, scheduling and inventory control for raw and finished goods with all vendors.
- Coordinate and track timely receipt of PP/TOP samples. Manage the quality assurance and approval process.
- Drive weekly cross functional meetings covering pre-production and production deliverables updating pertinent internal departments with order progress, changing lead times and back-orders, bringing creative solutions to the table when confronted with delays.
- Cultivate vendor relationships daily to ensure key partnerships for future growth. Source and onboard new vendors as needed.
- Oversee vendor shipments and confirm warehouse receipts.
- Manage inventory in Netsuite and Shipwire platforms.
Requirements:
- 5+ years apparel and accessory production experience.
- Premium apparel brand experience is preferred.
- Must have an innovative mindset and can-do attitude. Ability to source and develop anything!
- Must have an extensive roster of existing manufacturing resources and relationships both domestic and overseas in multiple categories.
- Deep understanding of garment construction, screen printing, manufacturing capabilities and materials.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Solid knowledge of International Trade Law and US Apparel and Customs regulations.
- Proficiency in managing multiple priorities and anticipating business demands while maintaining a high level of operational transparency and accountability.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Track record of building strong vendor relationships.
- Great communication skills both verbal and written.
- Results driven and solution oriented approach.
- Advanced knowledge working in Netsuite platform.
- Strong Excel skills.
Physical Demands
- Must live in Los Angeles, have a dependable care and ability to drive
- Carrying boxes up to 25 lbs
Perks and Benefits:
- Fully remote workplace with an office in the works in Los Angeles
- Awesome health benefits including medical, dental, vision, FSA
- 401(k) match
- Flexible PTO policy
- Paid Parental Leave
- Free Liquid Death Mountain Water & merchandise
- An unlimited sense of superiority over your office drone meat bag friends
