Recruitment of Collection Manager
The collection manager combines organisation, leadership and a great appetite for following trends, all driven by great creativity. They coordinate, present and guide their teams and the various departments, workshops, studios and product managers. He or she is also responsible for designing models and planning the distribution of collections.
The pace of work is fast and irregular. The collection manager travels to the manufacturing sites of the collections, to trade shows and fashion shows.
Know-how :
- Analyse and use data and indicators
- Controlling and developing the brand image
- Defining a trend, a style
- Managing the collection
- Imagining a style, collection themes
- Make a technical drawing, a model, a prototype
- Designing a product range and developing a collection plan
- Draw up a provisional budget by optimising the allocation of resources
- Set objectives and priorities, design an action plan
- Select and control the quality of a raw material
- Identify and select suppliers and subcontractors
- Negotiating commercial terms
- Controlling and developing the brand image
- Designing internal communication and training materials
- Disseminate, explain a collection
- Enrich a database and master document management
- Communicate in a professional situation in a foreign language
- Conducting market and competitive intelligence
Know how to be :
- Organise
- A force of proposal
- Team Leader
- Rigorous and precise
- Working in groups
- Sharing and reporting
