Associate Project Manager for Plastic Toys

• Manage assigned programs and projects to achieve development deadlines, negotiate best costing, and ensure all projects are developed to meet and supersede all international safety and quality standards.
• Work closely with each factory and will be the main liaison between the company's global cross-functional teams (Brand, Design, Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Packaging, etc.), in order to properly manage product development from concept through final production.
• Establish and mange project plans and deadlines, in collaboration with cross-functional development teams, to ensure all milestones and ship dates goals are achieved.
• Sourcing new vendors, i.e. toys factories in Vietnam
• Managing and updating product development calendars with key milestone dates to ensure timely and successful delivery of products, identifying risks and opportunities to assess and overcome development hurdles, providing escalation to management with proposed solutions, and working with key personnel on the cross-functional teams to balance business, design, and technical objectives.
• Update all key product development/project management documents and systems daily.
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and costs.
• Travel to factories and some international travel is required (35%).