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Fresh Prints

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

Retail • eCommerce • B2C

Fresh Prints is a company specializing in custom collegiate merchandise. They offer a wide range of apparel including hoodies, shirts, sweaters, and sweatpants, catering primarily to college students and organizations such as fraternities and sororities. Customers can customize their garments using Fresh Prints' design tool and upload their own inspirations for a personalized touch. The company operates online and is based out of New York City. They are actively engaged with their community through social media and an interactive blog, and they provide opportunities for students to become campus managers, enhancing their presence in the collegiate community.

📋 Description

• Reach out to international vendor base to obtain initial costs for new product concepts. • Quote larger, multi-style projects, ensuring all specific customer requirements and compliance standards are factored into the pricing. • Build and analyze initial Profit & Loss (P&L) models to determine gross margin viability for proposed projects. • Negotiate preliminary pricing to ensure target margins are achievable before presenting to internal teams. • Ask strategic, qualifying questions to new and existing factories to assess their capabilities, capacity, minimum order quantities (MOQs), and lead times. • Maintain clear, daily communication with overseas factories, successfully navigating time zone differences and cultural nuances. • Manage the request, tracking, and follow-up of initial development samples. • Ensure factories understand design intent and technical specifications so that first-round samples are accurate and delivered on time. • Flag any potential production or cost issues identified during the sampling phase. • Assist with the development of initial timeline and action (T&A) calendars for new projects, mapping out milestones from sample development through final production. • Communicate clearly and proactively with Sales and Product Development teams, presenting achievable timelines, finalized P&Ls, and margin expectations.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in global sourcing, product development, costing, or production management. • Industry Knowledge: Prior experience working with apparel, soft goods, textiles, or home accessories is highly preferred. • Global Exposure: Proven track record of communicating directly with factories in Asia (China, Pakistan, India) and/or South America. • Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of product costing, freight estimates, margins, and P&L statements. • Project Management: Excellent organizational skills with the ability to build and manage complex Time & Action (T&A) calendars across multiple styles simultaneously. • Technical Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, formulas for financial modeling) and PLM/ERP systems. • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex manufacturing realities into clear business updates for Sales and PD teams. • Problem-Solving: Proactive, analytical mindset with the ability to foresee production bottlenecks and suggest viable workarounds.

🏖️ Benefits

• Environment: Work directly with a fast-growing New York-based merchandise and production company alongside talented operations and e-commerce teams. • Type: Full-time remote role starting as soon as the right candidate is found. • Shift: Must be available during Eastern Standard Time/NY (EST) business hours.