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Ana Lesko
Director of Sourcing & Apparel Production Leader specializing in global manufacturing and denim
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Apparel sourcing/production professional who runs end-to-end vendor onboarding and execution using open-costing negotiation, rigorous T&A calendars, and KPI-based vendor scorecards. Demonstrated proactive risk mitigation across mills/factories (phased cutting, SKU prioritization, size-ratio rebalancing) and trade/duty exposure (classification review with customs brokers and shifting volume to lower-duty countries).
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Key Strengths
- Data-driven vendor selection using compliance, capability, and capacity criteria across regions to mitigate risk
- Negotiates with cost transparency via open costing and detailed cost component analysis (vs. price pressure)
- Proactive production risk management (identified mill yarn-booking gap early; escalated to mill; enabled phased cut to protect vessel window)
- Operational execution discipline using end-to-end T&A calendars spanning development through freight milestones
- Trade/duty risk mitigation by validating classification pre-PO and shifting volume to lower-duty country with backup factory readiness
- Supplier performance turnaround using KPI-based vendor scorecards tied to T&A and monthly reviews
Reference Highlights
- Thrives in high-pressure environments
- Delivers under tight and unreasonable timelines
- Highly adaptable; role expanded from narrow to broad scope
- Versatile cross-functional partner across the organization
- Able to run a one-person sourcing department effectively
- Deep technical understanding of garment construction and fabrics
- Strong at finding lowest cost for best quality
- Proactive in hedging against supply disruption
- Experienced navigating COVID-era supply chain challenges
- Takes job very seriously
- Passionate about the work
- Consistently performs at a high level
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