Sr. Manager, Apparel Product Development

BSN SPORTS, A VARSITY BRANDS COMPANY - THE RECOGNIZED LEADER IN TEAM ATHLETIC GEAR

For over 50 years, BSN SPORTS has been the largest team sporting goods equipment and apparel distributor of choice in the United States. Our 3,000 BSN SPORTS employees strive to support the Heart of the Game by putting valuable time back into the day of coaches and administrators through excellent service platforms. Our company mission is simple: Save coaches and administrators time with everything they do off the field so they have more time to impact young lives on it.

WORK TYPE: Remote

LOCATION DETAILS: Remote Portland, Oregon

WORK HOURS: M-F, 8:30 am- 5:30 pm ET

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

The Senior Manager, Product Development is responsible for leading the execution of product development strategies for custom sports uniforms and apparel from client intake through commercialization and production readiness. This role oversees a team of development professionals while ensuring alignment with adidas brand standards, client requirements, development timelines, cost objectives, quality expectations, and manufacturing capabilities.

The Senior Manager serves as the primary Product Development liaison for assigned adidas business areas, partnering closely with adidas stakeholders and internal Technical Design, Pattern, Artwork, Costing, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain teams. This role drives cross-functional alignment, process improvement, team development, and executional excellence while supporting the continued growth and scalability of the Custom Outfitters development organization.

The Senior Manager manages a portfolio of custom uniform development programs and is accountable for ensuring projects are delivered on time, within established cost and margin expectations, and in accordance with adidas quality and performance standards. This position provides operational leadership, resolves development escalations, and makes recommendations regarding resources, processes, capacity, and organizational needs.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Product Development Leadership

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Lead the execution of custom sports uniform and apparel development across assigned adidas accounts, programs, and product categories.

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Lead product development planning and execution from client intake and concept translation through sampling, approvals, production readiness, and commercialization, ensuring adherence to key milestones, deliverables, development calendars, and launch timelines.

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Manage multiple concurrent development programs, proactively identifying risks and adjusting priorities, timelines, or resources to support business objectives.

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Translate adidas requirements into clear development plans, timelines, resource needs, technical specifications, and production deliverables.

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Ensure development activities support established cost, margin, quality, performance, and client service targets.

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Provide technical leadership and guidance regarding custom sports uniforms, garment construction, fit, materials, decoration methods, manufacturing feasibility, quality, and commercialization best practices.

Cross Functional Collaboration

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Drive alignment across Technical Design, Pattern, Artwork, Costing, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, commercial teams, and adidas stakeholders.

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Serve as the primary Product Development liaison to assigned adidas stakeholders, ensuring alignment with brand standards, product expectations, development requirements, timelines, and issue resolution.

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Partner with internal teams and manufacturing partners to transition approved concepts and prototypes into scalable, cost-efficient production.

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Partner with Costing, Finance,