Production and Materials Manager
Bealls
Production and Materials Manager
Bealls
Operates family-owned regional department store chain
WHY JOIN BEALLS?
At Bealls Inc., we've spent 111 years delivering brands, style, and value while creating exceptional experiences for our guests. As a family-owned, leading off-price retailer with more than 650 stores across 23 states, we remain committed to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and communities. We believe success is built through innovation, teamwork, and collaboration across our organization. We offer opportunities to build skills, grow careers, and make meaningful contributions in a supportive environment where people are valued and empowered to succeed.
Production and Materials Manager
Product Development- Apparel | Global Material Sourcing | Product Innovation
Shape the materials, partnerships, and production decisions that bring our Exclusive Brands to life.
Function\:
As our business grows in volume and complexity, we are seeking a skilled Production and Materials Manager for apparel to elevate product value, quality, and innovation across our Exclusive Brands. In this highly collaborative role, you will lead fabric sourcing and development, analyze costs and lead times, and guide materials and production approvals from concept through on-time delivery.
You will partner closely with Design, Technical Design, Sourcing, mills, suppliers, and vendors to identify new opportunities, solve challenges, and ensure raw materials meet established quality, testing, compliance, and performance requirements.
What You Will Lead
• Research global innovations in fibers, fabric construction, sustainability, and performance to bring relevant newness to the business.
• Monitor global market conditions that affect the supply chain, including tariffs, social compliance, freight challenges, international labor costs, raw material costs and EPR extended producer responsibility.
• Partner with mills and suppliers to develop materials and introduce new fabrics matching brand vision while driving value.
• Evaluate insights from leading trend houses, and the broader market to help translate trends into commercially relevant material opportunities.
• Attend key industry trade shows, including Première Vision, Functional Fabric Fair, Texworld, and Intertextile, as business needs require.
• Trend presentation of materials quarterly aligning brand design intent, quality, performance, and delivery requirements.
• Collaborate with Design and Sourcing to leverage fabrics across the assortment and identify cost-saving opportunities.
Quality, Compliance & Production Execution
• Coordinate with Intertek and Import Compliance to monitor and track testing results.
• Lead communication with the Skin Cancer Foundation and maintain fabric validation protection claims.
• Manage the production approval process to support accurate execution and on-time delivery.
• Own the time-and-action calendar, ensuring factories meet production milestones, testing requirements, and delivery deadlines.
• Maintain an accurate, current materials library in PLM and managing a physical hand standard library.
• Partner with suppliers to uphold the company code of ethics and standards supporting human rights, labor laws, and workplace health and safety.
Qualifications\:
• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in apparel materials, production, sourcing, product development, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of global supply chains and the factors that influence cost, risk, quality, and delivery.
• Advanced Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems knowledge to build material library and maintain testing standards.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to turn information into clear, actionable insights.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Strategic thinking, sound judgment, and strong organizational and problem-solving capabilities.
• Demonstrated project management and leadership skills, with a proactive, self-directed approach.
• Ability to collaborate and coordinate effectively with multiple internal and external business partners.
• A strong sense of urgency and the ability to develop solutions under aggressive deadlines.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities may evolve.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means building strong supplier partnerships, bringing forward innovative and cost-effective materials, maintaining disciplined testing and approval processes, and helping cross-functional teams deliver compelling Exclusive Brand products on time.
For more information, check out\:
www.beallsinc.com
www.bealls.com
www.homecentric.com
www.beallsflorida.com
WHY JOIN BEALLS?
At Bealls Inc., we've spent 111 years delivering brands, style, and value while creating exceptional experiences for our guests. As a family-owned, leading off-price retailer with more than 650 stores across 23 states, we remain committed to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and communities. We believe success is built through innovation, teamwork, and collaboration across our organization. We offer opportunities to build skills, grow careers, and make meaningful contributions in a supportive environment where people are valued and empowered to succeed.
Production and Materials Manager
Product Development- Apparel | Global Material Sourcing | Product Innovation
Shape the materials, partnerships, and production decisions that bring our Exclusive Brands to life.
Function\:
As our business grows in volume and complexity, we are seeking a skilled Production and Materials Manager for apparel to elevate product value, quality, and innovation across our Exclusive Brands. In this highly collaborative role, you will lead fabric sourcing and development, analyze costs and lead times, and guide materials and production approvals from concept through on-time delivery.
You will partner closely with Design, Technical Design, Sourcing, mills, suppliers, and vendors to identify new opportunities, solve challenges, and ensure raw materials meet established quality, testing, compliance, and performance requirements.
What You Will Lead
• Research global innovations in fibers, fabric construction, sustainability, and performance to bring relevant newness to the business.
• Monitor global market conditions that affect the supply chain, including tariffs, social compliance, freight challenges, international labor costs, raw material costs and EPR extended producer responsibility.
• Partner with mills and suppliers to develop materials and introduce new fabrics matching brand vision while driving value.
• Evaluate insights from leading trend houses, and the broader market to help translate trends into commercially relevant material opportunities.
• Attend key industry trade shows, including Première Vision, Functional Fabric Fair, Texworld, and Intertextile, as business needs require.
• Trend presentation of materials quarterly aligning brand design intent, quality, performance, and delivery requirements.
• Collaborate with Design and Sourcing to leverage fabrics across the assortment and identify cost-saving opportunities.
Quality, Compliance & Production Execution
• Coordinate with Intertek and Import Compliance to monitor and track testing results.
• Lead communication with the Skin Cancer Foundation and maintain fabric validation protection claims.
• Manage the production approval process to support accurate execution and on-time delivery.
• Own the time-and-action calendar, ensuring factories meet production milestones, testing requirements, and delivery deadlines.
• Maintain an accurate, current materials library in PLM and managing a physical hand standard library.
• Partner with suppliers to uphold the company code of ethics and standards supporting human rights, labor laws, and workplace health and safety.
Qualifications\:
• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in apparel materials, production, sourcing, product development, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of global supply chains and the factors that influence cost, risk, quality, and delivery.
• Advanced Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems knowledge to build material library and maintain testing standards.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to turn information into clear, actionable insights.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Strategic thinking, sound judgment, and strong organizational and problem-solving capabilities.
• Demonstrated project management and leadership skills, with a proactive, self-directed approach.
• Ability to collaborate and coordinate effectively with multiple internal and external business partners.
• A strong sense of urgency and the ability to develop solutions under aggressive deadlines.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities may evolve.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means building strong supplier partnerships, bringing forward innovative and cost-effective materials, maintaining disciplined testing and approval processes, and helping cross-functional teams deliver compelling Exclusive Brand products on time.
For more information, check out\:
www.beallsinc.com
www.bealls.com
www.homecentric.com
www.beallsflorida.com
Bealls operates a family‑owned retail network that includes Bealls, Bealls Florida, and Home Centric, with more than 660 stores across 22 states and annual sales around $1.9 billion. It sells apparel, home goods, and related items through its store brands, offering a shopping experience that combines a mix of brands and private-label products in physical stores. The business grows primarily by reinvesting its profits, expanding its store footprint rather than pursuing external fundraising. Bealls’ longer-standing private ownership—dating back to 1915 and still run by the founding family—helps emphasize a commitment to customers, employees, and communities. Compared with competitors, its main differences are private, family ownership, a regional-to-midwestern U.S. store network, and a strategy focused on reinvestment for growth. The company’s goal is to expand its footprint and sales by reinvesting profits while sustaining trust and value for customers and communities.
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