Anna Romanova - CV Production/Product manager

2018-2024 SportMaster Purpose & Overall Relevance • Ownership of the relationships with suppliers to improve performance, understanding and efficiencies toward a mutually beneficial cooperation; • Manage seasonal style allocation based on Sourcing strategy, supplier’s performance of strengths, weaknesses, cost, capabilities and capacities; • Active member of product creation team engaged in the optimization of product development, cost and on time bulk production methodologies ; • Proactively manage and solve problems in the bulk production for timely shipment of good quality products.

Moscow State Linguistic University Graduated in 2013

Key Responsibilities:, • Responsible for driving the costing process from target setting through finalization of order price: evaluation and estimation of supplier quotes driving for transparency, fact based and sustainable price quotes across seasons for benchmarking, • Work with the development team, product creation and optimization, • Cooperation with overseas office merchandisers on the matters of product development and production processes, • Collaboration in sourcing strategy creation based upon supplier KPIs, capabilities, capacity offer and optimizations to meet Sportmaster objectives, • Optimization of supplier capability to meet SM goals, • Monitoring and control of samples and product on time in full shipments with relevant tracking and correspondence with supply base and business partners, • Proactive work with suppliers on prevention and early solutions of potential problems and delays on the early stages of bulk production, • Improvement of contractual terms with suppliers from season to season, holding negotiations in order to achieve better commercial conditions for the Company, • Actively work with new suppliers onboarding into processes and procedures of Sportmaster APD, • Timely and accurate placement and confirmation of orders and forecasts with suppliers, • Provide assistance to find effective solutions to complex production issues and potential conflicts between the Material and Garment Suppliers, • Consistently work with suppliers to improve product quality season to season, • Quality management: monitoring claims settlement and the related negotiations on recovery of damages, • Compliance with procedures and calendars for the collection development and production, • Fully meeting Buy Ready requirements for each relevant seasonal calendar, • Manage timely and accurate data information within the system landscape.

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Fluent English speaker with good managing skills and passion for product creation. Learning a new language is not a problem.