Product Integrity Manager

Description

Haddad is a privately held family business with over 100 years of experience in the children’s apparel & accessories industry. A leader in the industry, Haddad Brands is the exclusive global licensee for the most iconic brands in the world, including Nike, Jordan, Converse, Hurley, Levi’s, Polo, Abercrombie and Fitch, Lacoste, and Huggies. Supported by a team of professionals skilled in design, sourcing, production, sales, marketing & distribution of premium quality children’s wear, Haddad distributes globally to 100+ countries and maintains sales and sourcing offices in 22 cities globally, including New York, Paris, Hilversum, Shanghai, Egypt, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Montreal. 

Overview:

The Product Integrity Manager will ensure global execution of Haddad Brand’s chemical management and product integrity program vision to meet and exceed the product safety & compliance expectations of its licensors.

Key Accountabilities:

• Remain current on industry, licensor and global product integrity obligations/developments to manage product going into each region
• Strategize and develop standards, train expectations, and monitor new factories to ensure factory-based compliance
• Assist global teams to ensure factories consistently demonstrate safe manufacturing processes
• Analyze audit & test results to ensure compliance regarding chemical and safety requirements
• Manage failure remediation, administrate root cause analyses, and develop future preventative measures
• Partner with Haddad overseas testing coordinators as necessary to troubleshoot and pass seasonal testing and documentation requirements
• Conduct seasonal product risk assessments to support product safety across all brands, while troubleshooting with Sourcing and engaging Design
• Identify, troubleshoot and elevate systems and process constraints that impede program progress as needed
• Develop effective working partnerships with peers in Sourcing, Design, overseas Merchandising, Quality Assurance teams, licensors and Third Party Service Providers to support program execution
• Cultivate essential skills needed to recruit, train and develop top talent
• Special projects as assigned

Requirements

Required Skills/Abilities/Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management or apparel-related Sciences
• 3-5+ years of experience in designing, developing or manufacturing children’s wear (experience in garment manufacturing environment a plus)
• Strong mastery of international safety regulations affecting children’s apparel products & accessories
• Self-starter/multi-tasker with ability to problem-solve in a fast paced business environment
• Excellent organizational and communication skills with high attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively with remote and multi-cultural teams
• Ability to travel up to 30%
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and database management
• Basic knowledge of foundational chemistry
• Experience with AS400 database and/or PLM a plus

Consistent in-office presence is vital to the role as it is for all Haddad Brands team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.