Heather Hawkes

Experience

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  The College of New Jersey

  Aug 2013 - May 2016

  Manager of The College of New Jersey Fitness Center

  Managing associate workers to ensure efficient and effective functioning of the Fitness Center facility, create a positive experience for all members, and provide medical attention to any injuries that may occur (CPR, AED, First Aid Certified)

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  Johnson & Johnson

  Jan 2015 - Aug 2015

  Supply Chain Portfolio Management Co-Op

  My role included increasing the efficiency of governance processes for projects and major programs by developing new templates, checklists, and timelines for multiple cross-functional teams. I also validated various types of data for Quality & Compliance, Supply Disruption, and Cost Improvement projects by maintaining current records and files to ensure strong data accuracy and seamless execution. Furthermore, I assisted in a department-wide implementation of a global project management database, Instantis, in which I participated in the test pilot of the system, defined data & user requirements, and rolled out a training module to multiple functions and users across the organization. Show less

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  Black Stag Group

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

  Social Media and Content Curator

  My responsibilities consisted of meeting strict deadlines as well as ensuring the consistency and upkeep of social media posting activities. I also followed up with any comments and/or questions that readers posted in relation to the content that was put out for our clients. Additionally, I would create social posting calendars on Excel in order to maintain a traceable file of organized postings and headlines.

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  Club Monaco

  Oct 2016 - Sept 2020

  * Maintain daily Production status charts, as well as communicate with our global partners and vendors on a daily basis in order to track the production of our garments and ensure timely delivery to our DCs. • Interact with our design, tech design, and merchandising team to cost engineer our products so that we can produce the highest quality pieces at a profitable cost and have them manufactured and delivered on time.• Managing samples: Request samples from vendors, maintain sample tracking chart and coordinate sample pass offs to our merchants and tech design team for fittings. • Initiate raw material/trim vendor set up in accordance with RL requirement • Communicate purchase orders to vendors through booking and size breakdown charts as well as through systems management.• Daily communication with vendors: Set up vendor appt during Fashion trade show seasons and assist Production Manger during Trade show• Reporting & Systems: work in systems such as SAP, GFE, PLM, and Island Pacific (price ticketing) on a daily basis as well as pulling, formatting, and maintaining reports for data integrity. * Meeting with global and domestic yarn suppliers and vendors along with our design team to pull high quality and on trend fabrics for development and cost analysis. Show less

  • Associate Production Manager

    Jun 2019 - Sept 2020

  • Production Coordinator

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Production Coordinator

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Production Assistant

    Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
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  Ralph Lauren

  Sept 2020 - now

  1. Manage & Lead projects within the product sector of Ralph Lauren's company-wide DVC initiative to enable faster and more connected decision-making from product design to market.2. Connect & collaborate with functional business partners as well as our IT team to establish and implement, test & deliver streamlined and efficient workflows.3. Prioritize & execute committed features through SAFE Agile methodology in order to deliver new ways of digitizing product & raw material workstreams.4. Create unique and effective ways to communicate new ideas via process maps, user workshops, innovative presentations & training materials.5. Achievements include: Running PI Planning for PLM features to be released, executed a massive raw material clean up effort of about 75% of unused raw material records, aligned on a unified hierarchy for all brands that can be leveraged across the entire business, reduced the dependency on GFE+ for product creation, simplified BOM management for extended sizes through an auto generated BOM process, refreshed our product creation process through new systems and attribution. Show less - Managing the product end of Ralph Lauren's company-wide initiative to enable faster and more connected decision-making from product design to market. - Collaborating with functional business partners as well as the IT department to establish and implement a streamlined and efficient workflow. - Working through a design-sprint structure to create new ways of working and digitize the product journey.- Redefining the way we work across people, process and technology enabling both RL teams and partners to work with agility as one connected team. - Deliver a consistent and consumer driven product hierarchy for all brands. - Development Pipeline Roll out, Simplified BOM process, Standardization and Ensure sustainable raw materials can be tracked in an automated way.- Product Create process mapping - ideation to commercialization. Unlock digital asset format, process and connections.- Certified in SAFe Agile teams training. Show less

  • Senior Business Transformation Manager

    Jul 2023 - now

  • Business Transformation Manager

    Sept 2020 - Jul 2023