Fashion Job Categories — Page 8

Page 8 works through the remaining specialist buyers — Tailored Clothing Buyer, Tie Buyer, Trims Buyer, Trousers Buyer, T-shirt Buyer and Underwear Buyer — and a design group shaped by licensing and life stage: Ladies Fashion Designer, Licensed Apparel Designer, Licensed Print Designer and Maternity Designer, with licensed apparel merchandising alongside.

The miscellaneous group is the store and the field: Store Associate, Store Manager, Stockroom Coordinator, Stylist, Security, Territory Manager, a fashion and textiles teacher, and the Royalty Accountant who tracks what licensed designs earn. Production on this page is the management ladder in full — Production Associate, Coordinator, Planner, Planning Supervisor, Supervisor, Manager and Director — and sales closes with sportswear, textiles, footwear, handbag and hosiery selling up to the Vice President of Sales.

The Production Ladder, Rung by Rung

No page of this index shows a career ladder as completely as this one. The production group lists seven grades in sequence, and reading them in order shows exactly what changes at each step: the associate and coordinator handle the daily flow of samples, orders and factory communication; the planner and planning supervisor schedule work across styles and seasons; the supervisor and manager own output, cost and delivery for their lines; and the director sets the production strategy the others execute. Anyone aiming at production management can use these descriptions as a map of the promotions ahead.

Licensing threads through the rest of the page to match: licensed apparel is designed, merchandised and accounted for here, and the Royalty Accountant’s presence in the miscellaneous group is the financial end of the same work the Licensed Apparel Designer starts.