Colleen McCloskey

• Deliver outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for current and future business opportunities in the United States.
• Liaison between manufacturing facility and client along with their management and production teams. Work to better understand clients needs and recommend appropriate solutions to ensure that clients short & long term goals are met with the appropriate manufacturing facility.
• Support clients with product development & sampling, costing documentation and time & action plans to meet clients business priorities and deadlines.
• Initiated success of relationship with client's organization by improving performance, providing product to meet clients standards and at the required cost requirements.

• Started the pre-production, production and sourcing infrastructure for Elie Tahari men's business from concept to building a $60 million business.
• Devised the sourcing matrix for all the men's apparel categories encompassing the categories of shirts, pants, suits, sport coats, outerwear, sweaters, cut & sew, and swimwear to ensure quantitative results that met company fiscal goals.
• Spearheaded the development and execution of both short and long term operational strategies to drive the process from sampling through to finished good production while, always ensuring on-time delivery.
• Responsible for all aspects of sample development, technical design, fittings, factory allocation, quality, raw material procurement, and production aspects of the business by creating processes that ensured that all deadlines were always met.
• Partnered with all internal teams (i.e. design, merchandising, sales, marketing, and logistic teams) to understand, collaborate with, and ensure that all seasonal company goals were achieved as a team.
• Participated in all cross functional meetings to ensure that the aesthetic intent, overall seasonal margins, and required deadlines were met.
• Owned costing of all garments by partnering with design, merchandising, and sales to meet target margin requirements through decisive design decisions, appropriate product mix and strategic factory allocation.
• Accountable for sourcing, developing and maintaining key factory relationships based on global market fluctuations.
• Hired, developed and mentored a six person team.

• Consultant for both Women's and Men's across all categories in both woven and knit.
• Created product development, production, and sourcing infrastructure for Kenneth Cole retail store division.
• Implemented internal framework systems (T&A calendars, WIP reports, costing, ) in order to ensure quality requirements were met and to support the continued growth of the business.
• Managed vendor based for both Women's and Men's divisions while, continuously developing new vendor resources.
• Accountable for the management bulk placements, cost negotiations, one-time delivery while, exceeding seasonal margin goals.

Men's (Sport Shirts, Woven Bottoms, Denim, Outerwear, & Sport Coats) for Perry Ellis America and Off-Price Categories

Men's (Sport Shirts, Woven Bottoms, Denim, Outerwear, & Sport Coats) for Perry Ellis America and Perry Ellis Portfolio categories

Men's Wovens (Sport Shirts, Woven Bottoms, Denim, Outerwear, Swimwear, Sport Coats and Accessories)

• Product Manager: Women's Woven Tops (2/2000-9/2000)
• Product Manager: Women's Dresses (5/1999-2/2000)
• Associate Product Manager: Women's Knit Collection (6/1998-5/1999)
• Associate Buyer: Women's Knit Collection (1/1998-6/1999)
• Associate Buyer: Women's Skirts (6/1997-1/1998)

• Product Manager: Women's Sweaters (Charter Club) (10/1992-6/1997)
• Assistant Product Manager: Baby & Layette (5/1990-10/1992)