Director, Sourcing & Production (Sports & Entertainment)

About Us

 

Centric Brands is a leading lifestyle brand collective that designs, sources, markets and sells high quality products in multiple segments, including women’s, men’s and kid’s apparel, accessories, entertainment and beauty. Centric Brands is focused on our customers and our brands that will drive the company’s future growth. We are defined by innovation as we seize new opportunities and thrive in an environment informed by creativity and thinking that is both analytical and outside the box. Centric Brands reflects a team built on respect, for others and for the hard work it takes to achieve our goals and build our bright future together.

 

Product Development

From sourcing raw materials to manufacturing, order placement, pricing, quality control and getting the finished product where it needs to be, our production/product development team is responsible for ensuring we keep our standards high and our business profitable at every step of the journey. If you are a focused, results-driven, tenacious and highly flexible team player, we’ll give you every opportunity to build a rewarding career with one of the world’s foremost major lifestyle brand collectives.

Specific Responsibilities Would Include

The Director, Sourcing & Production is a senior leader responsible for overseeing our Sports and Entertainment brand’s global production strategy and execution reporting to the SVP of Production and Sourcing for Premium brands. This role manages vendor sourcing, product development, costing, production timelines, quality assurance, capacity planning, and delivery performance, while leading a global team of production professionals. The Director partners closely with Design, Merchandising, Sales, Planning, and overseas offices to ensure timely, cost-effective, and high-quality product delivery that supports margin goals and speed-to-market objectives. This position requires a leader with deep production and sourcing expertise, strong operational discipline, and the ability to manage globally distributed teams in a dynamic, high-volume environment. 

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Innovation 

• Develop and implement production strategies that optimize vendor and country matrices, balancing cost, capability, speed, and risk diversification. 
• Drive costing governance to maintain and improve margin through disciplined cost modeling, negotiation, IMU management, and data accuracy. 
• Ensure flexibility in production models to adapt to evolving tariff, duty, and trade environments, maintaining competitiveness and resilience. 
• Partner closely with overseas hubs and vendor teams to ensure understanding of departmental objectives needed through vendor capabilities to drive initiatives that expand competencies as needed 
• Champion continuous improvement across processes, systems, and vendor capabilities to enhance efficiency and reliability. 

Operations & Results 

• Lead end-to-end product execution from development through bulk delivery, ensuring brands meet or exceed on-time delivery (OTD), quality, and cost targets throughout the product life cycle. 
• Transform design aesthetics into commercially viable apparel products that uphold brand vision and meet D2C and wholesale market requirements 
• Lead cost engineering to maximize product value, optimize margins, and leverage the global sourcing and manufacturing network 
• Manage vendor performance, ensuring alignment of capacity, cost competitiveness, quality, and speed while improving vendor scorecards year over year. 
• Oversee capacity planning and production allocation to support seasonal demand, margin targets, and speed-to-market KPIs. 
• Ensure strong quality assurance oversight in partnership with global QA teams from concept to final bulkexecution. 
• Maintain costing accuracy and governance; collaborate with Sales, Planning, Finance, and overseas teams to ensure accurate margin forecasts and raw material commitments. 
• Monitor shipment performance and proactively mitigate risks to meet delivery adherence KPIs. 
• Govern operational reporting and analytics, ensuring KPIs—delivery, quality, costing accuracy, vendor performance—are visible and actionable. 
• Oversee trade, customs, and import compliance to protect cost, speed, and risk exposure. 

Customers & Relationships 

• Act as the production partner to Merchandising, Design, Sales, Planning, and Operations, ensuring alignment on seasonal strategies, margin targets, and delivery requirements. 
• Build and maintain strong global vendor and factory relationships, ensuring partners meet KPIs for cost, quality, delivery, capacity, and compliance. 
• Drive cross-functional coordi