Remote (international) | Competitive salary + premio | Full-time
Nero is a premium activewear brand that specializes in crafting garments from all-natural, luxury-grade fabrics like merino wool. Designed for high-performance, its products support active lifestyles while eliminating the use of plastics. Nero combines sustainability with quality and innovation to create stylish and functional pieces.
We're looking for a Production Manager to own everything from fabric order through ex-factory, the entire critical path that turns a tech pack into a finished garment in our customer's hands.You'll own our mill and factory relationships across Italy, Portugal, and China. You'll run the production calendar across every SKU and every season. You'll be the person who makes sure that when we say a product is launching on a date, it actually launches on that date, at the quality we promised and the margin we modelled.
This is a senior, high-ownership role. You'll report directly to the founder, work alongside our demand planner and creative team.
You'll manage relationships with our luxury fabric mills. Factory management.
You'll own day-to-day relationships with our Portuguese and Asia manufacturing partners. PO discipline, critical path, sample approvals, bulk production, QC, all of it runs through you. You'll be on email, WhatsApp and WeChat daily with our factories, and open to business travel if needed.Production calendar and critical path.
Every SKU has a path from tech pack to landed inventory. Inventory and reorder triggers.
Working with our demand planner, you'll translate demand forecasts into fabric orders, deposit payments, and production bookings. Quality control.
You'll manage our SGS and Intertek testing programme, work with factories on QC standards, and own the feedback loop when issues come back. You'll fight for the quality bar that defines the brand.You've spent at least 6–8 years in production at a premium apparel brand.You've worked with Portuguese factories. You live in spreadsheets, you understand margin math, and you can run a planning model without help from a finance person. You'll be working in Google Sheets, building out trackers, and owning the operational data.We're not a 200-person business with a team of coordinators below you. That's the job, and it's the part that makes it interesting.You care about quality. You have strong opinions about fabrics, finishes, and construction, and you can defend them. You're comfortable in a small team and a fast environment. We don't want someone who does everything manually because that's how it's always been done. The right person here uses Claude, and whatever else gets the job done, drafting supplier emails, summarising lab reports, building tracker formulas, pulling structure out of messy data. A competitive salary benchmarked to your experience, with a performance bonus tied to margin protection, on-time delivery, and quality metrics. Fully remote work with regular travel as needed. Real ownership over a function that genuinely matters to the business, with the runway to grow into a Head of Supply Chain role as the brand scales.
We're building Nero to be a category-defining brand over the next decade, the natural-fibre answer to Lululemon, Vuori, and On.