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Head of Fashion Production
About this role
The role is Head of Fashion Production, based in Abuja. It involves leading and coordinating the fashion production process, ensuring quality across pattern-making, cutting, sewing and finishing, and managing production budgets. The position requires overseeing production teams and maintaining inventory while complying with health, safety, and regulatory guidelines. It also entails collaborating with designers and other departments to turn concepts into market-ready pieces and planning production schedules tied to collections and targets. The employer, Woodgate Structure Limited, is a human resources and business structuring company presenting a standards-driven, professional work environment.
What you would do
- Enforce quality assurance across pattern-making, cutting, sewing and finishing
- Oversee production expenditures and track manufacturing costs
- Lead, train and manage production teams and floor staff
- Monitor raw material and finished goods inventory and ensure compliance with health, safety and regulatory guidelines
- Collaborate with designers, merchandising and sales to translate concepts into market-ready pieces
- Develop master production timelines, schedules and resource allocations
- Manage relationships with fabric mills, trim suppliers and external vendors
- Negotiate costs, contracts and delivery dates with suppliers and vendors
- Plan production in line with collection drops, fashion weeks and sales targets
- Ensure adherence to brand integrity throughout production processes
What they are asking for
- Experience in fashion production management or similar leadership role
- Knowledge of QA protocols in garment production
- Budgeting and cost-management experience
- Strong leadership and team supervision skills
- Understanding of production planning and scheduling
- Familiarity with supply chain and vendor management
- Ability to collaborate with design, merchandising and sales teams
- Awareness of health, safety and regulatory compliance in production environments
- Experience with fabric mills, trim suppliers and external manufacturers
- Ability to translate creative concepts into market-ready products
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