Juliana Thiessen: Product Coordinator in Irvine, CA

-Conduct and execute all Product Development responsibilities -Produce all Women's Swimwear brands, reporting to Senior Merchandiser -Create and maintain line sheets including: style numbers, colors, fabric names and style pricing. -Create and maintain style packages in conjunction with Design and Technical Design in PLM. -Set up styles in PLM & Essentus. -Create and close sample purchase orders. -Request fabric/trims for sample room, track and distribute all sales samples. -Track all L/D, S/O and trims and communicate comments to overseas offices and through PLM. -Communicate line changes to the New York and Los Angeles Sales Teams and overseas offices. -Work with Sourcing in calculating fabric and trim needs for sales samples. -Review Sales off-price & speciality pricing inquiries and partnered with Sourcing to meet the needs of the buyer, while trying to meet target pricing & maintaining our internal margin. - Partner with Design to create Sales presentation boards for market appointments and Sales meetings. - Oversee sample yardage orders each season for Sales sample line for market appointments, while staying within our allotted fabric budget.

-Assist the Product Manager in follow up with Design and Merchandising to manage the pre-production approval process from turnover of tech packs to insure delivery dates are maintained. -Monitor status of orders/shipping to insure Delivery Exception report reflects correct dates and comments. - Assist Product Manager in printing technical design packs, sending tech packs to vendors & maintaining style tracking system. - Duplicate standardized tech packages for distribution to secondary vendors for competitive costing and dual sourcing. -Maintain spread sheets and PDM task manager for Product Manager. -Assisting with the sample review and approval process. -Constant communication overseas with International Vendors and factories. -Attending and assisting in fit sessions and commentary. -Creating, updating, and reviewing Week In Progress reports for individual programs. -Understanding and interpreting duty rates per individual clothing article content.