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Senior Manager, Production Strategy

Employer
The RealReal Inc.
Location
San Francisco, California
Closing date
22 Mar 2022

Job Details

The Senior Manager of Production Strategy is a critical strategic position within The RealReal's operations organization. A key priority will be to drive process and efficiency improvements that reduce costs while increasing production and enable the company to scale. This individual will be tasked with identifying process and strategy improvements, conducting rigorous analyses to determine prioritization and impact, and driving implementation of key strategic and other operational initiatives.

What You Get To Do Every Day
  • Brainstorm and identify inbound process and innovation ideas. Prepare clear and concise recommendations based on analytical analyses around financial costs and savings, operational requirements, and cross-functional support.
  • Connect near-term labor planning output to inbound strategies and holistic operations, supporting analysis as needed. Act as a strategic thought partner to the supply chain team.
  • Support development of the medium and long-term strategy for Inbound operations. Create rigorous business cases that include impact analyses, holistic cost assessments, and key risks or other dependencies. Develop KPIs, monitor strategy progress, and identify roadblocks with Supply Chain leadership.
  • Partner cross functionally with the product, technology, merchandising, sales, and other operational teams to drive key strategic initiatives. Conduct holistic analyses measuring inbound operational impact, with respect to costs, fixed assets, working capital and service, and gather cross functional input to test and strengthen ideas.
  • Prepare executive level updates for key initiatives, communicating project progress, impact, metrics, and potential roadblocks. Ensure key initiatives are achieving goals of enabling more cost-effective processes while improving on quality and consistency.
  • Partner with the product and technology teams on new supply chain innovations. Prepare clear and concise recommendations based on analytical analyses around financial costs and savings, operational requirements, trade-offs, and cross-functional support.

What You Bring To The Role
  • Minimum 5+ years of professional experience with at least five years in strategy, supply chain and/or merchandising operations roles. MBA and/or consulting experience is a plus
  • At least 2-3 years working in a customer-centric ecommerce environment. Omnichannel experience is a plus
  • Methodically breaks large, complex problems into smaller pieces and build solutions using a data-driven approach
  • Arrives at recommendations through quantitative data collection and qualitative institutional knowledge. Drives with a strong focus on KPIs and accountability.
  • Uses clear written and verbal communication methods to clearly articulate ideas, recommendations, and analytical analyses to cross functional partners and executives
  • Thrives working in a high growth, dynamic, changing, and evolving environment and is comfortable with ambiguity
  • Drives successful execution of projects across multiple functional groups and links production strategies to broader supply chain initiatives
  • Results oriented, proactive, and self-motivated with the ability to take initiative and drive self ownership
  • Willing to "roll up sleeves" to get into the operational details to support strategic concepting

 

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Company

The RealReal is leading the way in authenticated luxury consignment, online and in real life at our brick and mortar locations. Founded in 2011, we’re growing fast and fundamentally changing the way people buy and sell luxury — a multi-billion dollar industry. With a team of in-house experts who inspect every item we sell, our commitment to authenticity sets us apart and creates a foundation of trust with shoppers and consignors. Our mission to extend the lifecycle of luxury items is leading innovation in sustainable fashion. We’re proud to promote the circular economy and to be the first luxury member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious CE100 USA. 

Company info
Location
San Francisco
US

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