Centric Brands is a leading lifestyle brand collective that designs, sources, markets, and sells high-quality products in multiple segments, including women's, men's, and kids' apparel, accessories, entertainment, and beauty.
Centric Brands is focused on our customers and our brands that will drive the company's future growth. We are defined by innovation as we seize new opportunities and thrive in an environment informed by creativity and thinking that is both analytical and outside the box.
Centric Brands reflects a team built on respect — for others and for the hard work it takes to achieve our goals and build our bright future together.
Specific Responsibilities Would Include:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Handle end-to-end product technical support, ensuring all necessary technical quality standards are met through to bulk production, with the right cost and on-time delivery.
Kickoff & Line review precaution
- Critical technical issue / children's safety call-out
- TP technical clarification
- Difficult style technical support to vendor
- Sample matrix arrangement to follow up on WIP delivery & quality consistency
FIT/PP evaluation
- Trim & fabric verification with Merchandising
- Design & construction checking on samples
- Measurement checking
- Fit photo taking
- CAD pattern verification / correction (Gerber 2D, based on sample fitting feedback & issues)
- Comment writing
- PLM system: upload sample reports
- Mock-up suggestion & reviewing
- VC fit with vendor
- Technical issue verification to customer
3D sample
- Follow up with vendor for e-pattern correction & layout
PP meeting & TOP
- Technical support to vendor
- Critical technical call-out, linking to QC
- Technical clarification with Merchandising / customer
Team enhancement management
- Daily sample log in chart & OTS
Vendor enhancement management
- SOP to monitor factory utilization of block and brand patterns
- Safety case learning
Other
- Conduct the sampling approval process and ensure timely submission with good execution.
- Collaborate with merchandisers, buyers, and suppliers; follow up on T&A (WIP) with flexible technical support to ensure on-time delivery on a regular basis.
At least 10+ years of hands-on technical experience in Kids' & Youth apparel, with a deep focus on export products for the US market.
Core category expertise (must-have):
- Men's & women's underwear — strong command of knit fabric properties and technical characteristics
- Teen girls' swimwear (adolescent/teenage)
- Toddler to teenage boys' & girls' sportswear (full category, knit & woven), including sportswear sets, beachwear, skate pants, and outdoor & ski apparel technology
Technical skills:
- Gerber 2D (mandatory): strong ability to create and modify patterns based directly on sample fitting feedback and fit issues
- Safety & compliance: solid practical knowledge of US/EU children's safety standards, especially US CPSIA for kids' apparel
- Up to date with the latest garment design-construction trends and best practices
- Knowledge of garment manufacturing, including construction, fabrication, trim and print techniques, and sensibility for costing/design
- Ability to resolve a variety of fitting issues and modify patterns by CAD (Gerber preferred)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe products, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, and drawings
- Flex PLM system experience is a plus
Education & communication:
- Bachelor's Degree in Garment Engineering or a related field
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS
Behavioral Competencies:
- Strong self-driving mindset: proactive, takes ownership, works independently, and drives projects with priority to meet goals
- Logical & organized: clear technical sample circle management logic for export products, with strong documentation and follow-through habits
- High sense of responsibility and ownership
- Strong logical thinking and clear communication on a daily basis
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple styles under tight timelines
- Calm and solution-oriented when facing fit/quality/development issues
Language Proficiency:
- Fluent in English (and Mandarin is a plus)
- Good to excellent spoken and written English for daily communication with Global/Shanghai teams and clear technical alignment
SPECIFIC WORKING CONDITIONS
- Frequency of travel or vendor VC: as required
Skills Required
- 10+ years of hands-on technical experience in Kids' and Youth apparel
- Strong experience with US-market export apparel products
- Expertise in men's and women's underwear, including knit fabric properties
- Expertise in teen girls' swimwear
- Expertise in toddler through teenage boys' and girls' sportswear, including knit and woven garments, beachwear, skate pants, and outdoor and ski apparel
- Strong proficiency with Gerber 2D for pattern creation and modification
- Practical knowledge of US and EU children's safety standards, especially US CPSIA
- Knowledge of garment manufacturing, construction, fabrication, trims, prints, costing, and design
- Ability to resolve fitting issues and modify patterns using CAD
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe products, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, and technical drawings
- Flex PLM experience
- Bachelor's degree in Garment Engineering or a related field
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Mandarin proficiency
What We Do
Centric Brands is a leading lifestyle brand collective that designs, sources, markets, and sells high-quality products in the kids, men’s and women’s apparel, accessories, beauty, and entertainment categories. The Company’s portfolio includes licenses for more than 100 iconic brands, including Calvin Klein®, Tommy Hilfiger®, Nautica®, Spyder®, and Under Armour® in the kid’s category; Joe’s Jeans®, Buffalo®, and Hervé Léger® in the men’s and women’s apparel category; Kate Spade®, Michael Kors®, All Saints®, Frye®, Timberland®, and Jessica Simpson® in the accessories category; and in the entertainment category, Disney®, Marvel®, Nickelodeon®, and Warner Brothers® among many others. The Company also owns and operates brands such as Zac Posen®, Hudson®, Robert Graham®, Avirex®, and Taste Beauty® and operates a joint venture brand, Favorite Daughter, with Sara and Erin Foster. The Company’s products are sold primarily in North America through leading mass-market retailers, specialty and department stores, and online. Centric Brands LLC has unparalleled expertise in product design, development and sourcing, retail and digital commerce, marketing, and brand building. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with U.S. offices in Los Angeles and Greensboro, and international offices in London, Toronto, and Montreal. For more information about Centric Brands, please visit https://www.centricbrands.com.
