Sr Manager, Digital Product Development

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Gildan is a leading manufacturer of everyday basic apparel, with a strong portfolio of brands, including Gildan®, Hanes®, Comfort Colors®, American Apparel®, ALLPRO™, GOLDTOE®, Peds®, Bali®, Playtex®, Maidenform®, Bonds®, as well as Champion® which is under an exclusive licensing agreement for the printwear channel in the U.S. and Canada.

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The Senior Manager, Digital Product Development, is accountable for defining and executing digital product development strategies for their assigned businesses. Incumbent is a product expert who can lead and manage digital product development initiatives utilizing cross functional resources to identify, evaluate, implement, and manage digital tools to improve and ensure product development process efficiency and reduce cost and timelines. Digital tools in scope for this position include Digital Product Creation software such as Browzwear and Clo, Digital Materials software such as Swatch book and SEDDI, Digital Product AI tools such as Straight Lines and Caimera AI Fashion, Product Lifecycle Management tools such as Centric PLM and PTC Flex PLM, and other emerging Digital Product tools.

• Accountable for building a strategic digital product development plan in partnership with the business GM’s, category product development leads and information technology team to enable efficient processes to deliver top and bottom line business objectives.
• Leads and directs the digital product development team that is responsible for the selection, evaluation, implementation and management of digital product tools for assigned businesses. Ensures that appropriate decisions are made to keep projects on calendar, on budget, and are utilized effectively.
• Drives the use of digital tools from initial concept handoff throughout the product lifecycle for both internally developed and sourced products.
• Collaborates closely with the Technical Design team to ensure that robust foundational product technical elements are in place to ensure accurate digital representations with respect to expression of fit, optimal construction, and to ensure leverage of platform materials and blocks as appropriate.
• Serves as the digital product expert and owns all decisions, information, and communication / reporting related to digital product tools and processes.
• Understands optimal use of digital product tools, and uses this knowledge to ensure that their use delivers improved timelines, reduced physical samples, accurate specifications, and easy to use Design and Marketing tools to yield maximum financial benefit to the company.
• Ensures that digital product development tasks adhere to project calendars and timelines and are embedded into tools such as Workfront to ensure that projects are executed in alignment with specific timeline requirements.
• Leads key cross functional business initiatives related to digital product creation through ownership of key meetings and development of processes to plan and execute non-seasonal new / evolving digital product strategies and platforms.
• Devise and execute tactics to expand Digital Product strategies and key projects. Current examples include virtual…