Ana Lesko

About

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).

Experience

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