Key areas of responsibilities include but are not exclusive to:
PRODUCT (primary focus in Year 1)
- Maintain tech packs, BOMs, costing, and product specifications
- Liaise with end-to-end factory partners on sampling, fit corrections, and bulk production
timelines
- Manage the product development calendar, ensuring sufficient lead time across sampling,
fittings, approvals, and production
- Steward incoming samples — receiving, logging, photographing, and presenting for
leadership review
- Track margins and CPUs against targets; document supplier capabilities, MOQs, and
category strengths
ACTIVATION (growing share as collections ship)
- Support development of seasonal Key Stories for each collection and channel them
through digital and physical activation
- Partner with Marketing, Visual Merchandising, eCommerce, and Store teams on launch
activations, content, and in-store presentation
- Support trunk shows, launch events, and experiential activations for new collections
- Capture customer reactions and selling-floor feedback to inform future product and
activation decisions
PEOPLE & PROCESS
- Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for factory and supplier partners on all product
development matters
- Coordinate cross-functionally across Marketing, Visual Merchandising, eCommerce, and
Store Operations
- Execute and continuously improve product development workflows; document SOPs,
templates, and supplier files as the process matures
- Participate in customer-facing events as a representative of the Buying Team, gathering
direct feedback
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- On-time delivery of samples, tech packs, and production milestones against the
development calendar
- Margin and cost adherence against targets set by the CEO/President
- Quality of cross-functional coordination as reported by internal partners
- Demonstrated growth in luxury womenswear knowledge, Andrews customer fluency, and
activation capability over the first 12 months
COMPETENCIES, TECHNICAL SKILLS AND
EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE
- c. 2–4 years of product development experience in apparel, with offshore sourcing
experience preferred
- Demonstrated ownership of tech packs, BOMs, costing analysis, and direct factory liaison
- Strong project management skills with the ability to track multiple development streams in
parallel
- Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and time management
- Comfort taking instruction at every juncture — this is a development role for someone who
wants to grow into broader product and activation leadership
- Willingness to learn luxury womenswear, Andrews customer personas, and the full
activation discipline on the job
- Genuine interest in strategic marketing and brand activation; academic or applied
exposure is an asset
Digital literacy:
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word — advanced)
- Experience with PLM systems, tech pack tools, and workflow tools such as Asana
(preferred)
- Experience with LLMs (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) preferred — Andrews is AI-first
with human in the loop
- Additional language capability (Mandarin, Italian, French) an asset for offshore
coordination
