Production Job Descriptions — Letter I

This is the I page of the Production and Sourcing category index, which files the category's role descriptions alphabetically by job title. One production role begins with I, and it is a substantial one: the manager who brings garments made overseas safely from a factory on another continent to the warehouse door.

Browse Production Job Descriptions by Letter:

The One I Role

Import Production Manager — The import production manager owns garment orders placed with overseas factories: issuing orders and technical packages, running the critical path of approvals and production stages, arranging quality inspections and compliance documents, and managing freight, customs and delivery until the goods reach the warehouse.

The role sits between two neighbours described elsewhere in this category: global sourcing, under G, which decides where production is placed, and the factory-side export roles, under E, which manage the making from the producing country. The import manager is the importing company's owner of the order itself.

How the Production Category Is Organised

Production and Sourcing covers the making side of fashion: developing and engineering styles, pattern cutting by hand and computer, colour work in laboratories and dye houses, factory management, quality control and sourcing. Its descriptions sit across sixteen letters — A, C, D, E, F, G, I, L, M, O, P, Q, S, T, V and W in the bar above — fullest at A and F, with eight roles each.