Senior, Color Manager

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Job Overview

The Senior, Color Manager leads the color process for multiple brands and/or business families. This role requires strong collaboration skills, building trust with teams and key partners, and identifying opportunities for collaboration. The Senior, Color Manager is known as a trusted, collaborative, and results-oriented partner to the Private Brands Overseas, Design, and Product teams. They effectively lead through complex situations and influence business partners. They evaluate situations to ensure alignment with company strategy.

What You Will Do

• Manage, train, and develop the team.
• Differentiate colors accurately and consistently describe color differences.
• Have knowledge of dyes, dyeing techniques for varied fiber contents, textile structures, and their influence on color appearance, as well as industry standards.
• Understand visual and instrumental color evaluation with accurate and consistent techniques, including using spectrophotometers, light boxes, and other color tools.
• Research color trends and concepts for brand development presentations (NY team only).
• Maintain the brand concept and identity in all approval decisions (NY team only).
• Maintain history and analysis of previous palettes.
• Support the design team in developing seasonal color palettes (NY team only).
• Facilitate digital and visual color searches within the color library and supplier libraries (NY team only).
• Administer the communication of color palettes through entry into Macy’s color system.
• Assist with color library updates (NY team only).
• Distribute color standards and/or color cards to all Macy’s internal partners.
• Provide technical expertise when determining color/fabric combinations for the season.
• Provide CAD matches for colors on the palette (NY team only).
• Partner with Digital Merchants in communicating and managing Hex values (NY team only).
• Attend key brand meetings and support company initiatives (NY team only).
• Partner with OS Colorist on visual and instrumental color approval decisions for lab dips, trims, and bulk (NY team only).
• Partner with Color Service Providers and OS Teams to provide technical expertise on challenging color/fabrications.
• Actively implement the color process and execute against the End-to-End calendar.
• Maintain turn time requirements to achieve on-time delivery.
• Communicate extensively with the brand team, overseas offices, suppliers, and mills on corrections and performance issues related to color or production techniques (NY team only).
• Provide metrics for performance assessment and monitor patterns in performance to make recommendations.
• Anticipate color problems and proactively resolve concerns or issues on color matches inherent in fabric selections, partnering with the color manager, design, and product development team.
• Execute print and pattern color evaluation (NY team only).
• Conduct alignment audits on decisions owned by the supply chain.
• Recommend improvements to the color approval procedures.
• Actively seek out opportunities to expand the role and improve customer support (NY team only).
• Be highly organized, able to prioritize (sense of urgency), and have attention to detail.

Skills You Will Need

Collaboration Skills: Ability to work effectively with teams and key partners, building trust and identifying opportunities for collaboration.

Leadership: Manage, train, and develop the team, guiding them through complex situations and influencing business partners.

Color Differentiation: Ability to accurately and consistently differentiate and describe color differences.

Knowledge of Dyes and Dyeing Techniques: Understanding dyes, dyeing techniques for varied fiber contents, textile structures, and their influence on color appearance.

Visual and Instrumental Color Evaluation: Proficiency in using spectrophotometers, light boxes, and other color tools to evaluate colors visually and instrumentally with accurate and consistent techniques. Superior score on 100 Hue Test required. 

Trend Research: Research and analyze color trends and concepts for b