Jessica Arrieta

• Guide, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing team of category management professionals, promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous growth. • Oversees all aspects of product management, acting as the general manager for a dedicated business unit within the organization. Responsibilities include managing categories such as furniture, lighting, organization, cleaning liquids, and pet products. • Drive the product lifecycle from ideation to end-of-life, guiding cross-functional teams to deliver new product developments on time and within budget. • Translate consumer insights and pain points into innovative product features and specifications, establishing a competitive edge in the market. • Perform in-depth market research and financial analysis to create persuasive business cases, gaining executive alignment and resource commitment. • Direct cross-functional collaboration, including evening calls with Asian manufacturing partners, to ensure timely achievement of project goals and milestones. • Provide concise and impactful project updates to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication. • Track and analyze post-launch performance metrics such as sales, customer feedback, and market response, implementing swift corrective measures where necessary. • Build and maintain strong partnerships with strategic manufacturing vendors to optimize product development processes and outcomes.

• Led product development for major CPG brands including Clorox, Kingsford, and Shout across dish, cleaning, laundry, air care, and adjacent categories; expanded into pet toys and apparel through licensed programs with Marvel, Harry Potter, Peanuts, Star Wars, and Friends. • Partnered closely with design teams to ideate and execute innovative products aligned with brand and licensor guidelines. • Managed daily collaboration and cost negotiations with international manufacturing partners, overseeing sample development through production. • Built and maintained detailed development timelines and launch calendars to ensure on-time delivery; leveraged Nielsen data to inform customer profiles and product strategy. • Drove assortment optimization initiatives including SKU rationalization, packaging innovation, and product renovation. • Collaborated cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, Design, Licensing, and Regulatory teams to align product strategy and execution. • Oversaw the full product lifecycle from concept through mass production, ensuring quality, efficiency, and margin targets. • Developed customer-centric product strategies aligned with brand objectives and profitability goals; owned and analyzed P&L performance. • Formulated liquid products for household cleaning, personal care, and pet grooming categories. • Identified, evaluated, and onboarded new suppliers to support growth and cost optimization. Consistently met KPIs, delivering new products on schedule and within budget.

• Communicated vendor capacities, order minimum requirements and special lead times. • Provide feedback and work with divisional partners on their order quantities for final placement with vendors. • Correspond with director, sourcing offices, agents or factories directly to place production commitments and negotiate/confirm deliveries and factory costs. • Handled international buying entities to place orders according to buy calendar deadlines. Negotiated terms with suppliers, balancing considerations of cost, quality, and timelines to secure optimal agreements. • Managed correspondence with vendors, tracking current and new wholesale orders. • Maintained development data production development to achieve on-time delivery, quality assurance and compliance. • Worked with design team to review product sampling to ensure factories are maintaining the integrity of the product. • Resolved any material/hardware and packaging issues that may arise during the end development stage or during bulk production. • Reviewed top of production pieces against pre-production and standards to ensure bulk production is correct. • Leveraged financial knowledge to conduct thorough analysis of Profit and Loss (P&L) statements, optimizing financial performance. • Developed liquid formulations for personal care and skin care.

• Managed correspondence to and from vendors, tracking current and new orders, maintaining development data and updated work in process report. • Managed accounts such as Wal-Mart, Target, Clair’s • Assisted in development by establishing program details, Prop 65 testing, sourcing, and pricing to resolve production issues. Partnered with overseas team members and vendors in China, Vietnam and India to effectively achieve production objectives. • Worked with internal teams to help manage third party production partners from planning to production and through delivery by ensuring they are meeting delivery dates. • Confirmed purchase orders with vendors and manage purchase order log for the entire production base. • Kept track of all stages of development sampling. Tracked developing open orders thru to sales sample stage and ultimately to pre-production approval completion. • Assisted designers in sourcing new materials such as glass beads, chains, metal findings, castings while addressing competitive pricing and fast turnaround time • Ensured complete pre-production tech packs are passed to overseas vendors including completed style worksheets & updated style spec sheets.

• Communicated with factories on a daily basis to ensure that product development is being maintained according to timelines and to address all quality issues as they arise. Assessed Pre Production samples and TOPs. • Daily maintenance on all purchase orders: adjusting delivery dates based on existing factory dates, updating units, indicating mode of transport when necessary. • Initiated first cost discussions with factories, and communicate pricing issues to designers and factories. • Designed briefings and product presentations for seasonal market meetings. • Organized samples, price lists & other sales tools in the showroom prior to 6 different selling seasons. Created POG for distribution to buyers. Created reports as needed during market season. • Reviewed client sales data to ensure it is in line with product development objectives

• Initiated the development of strategic perspectives, creative concepts, campaigns, engagement mechanics and platforms for existing clients and new business opportunities. • Brand Ambassador at major trade shows; Bead & Button, To Bead To Blue • Managed creative web designs, email blasts and advertisements • Managed custom jewelry orders from Artistic Works by Lu, Julio Designs, Brooklyn Charm Shop, Bitter Sweet.