Thomas Neer: Assistant Category Launch Manager in Oceanside, CA

Manage all roller hockey product from concept to consumer. This includes competitive assesment, line plan creation, brief design/deveolpment, 3-5 year product planning and oversight of the design team to ensure brand identity and quality. Collaborate with development team and manufacturer on tech pack design/product details. Deliver on extensive sample requirements for salesman and athlete events all over globe.

Create material #'s, compose competitive analysis in all roller hockey categories, brief creation, softgood product design, advanced concepts, R&D, product presentation creation and delivery to key accounts and sales team. Coordinate catalog production by managing tech and spec, product sample delivery from factory to marketing team, photoshoot oversight, quality assurance from proof to print.

Responsible for overseeing all day to day activities of the shop, including processing orders, timely delivery, tracking and inventory ordering, scheduling of workload, arranging for outsourcing of jobs, supervising sta. Also responsible for graphic design including the creation and/or revision of artwork, color separation, and preparing graphics for print.