Chris Chung
About
Chris Chung is from San Francisco Bay Area. In Chris's previous role as a Sourcing Manager at CamelBak, Chris worked in Petaluma, California, United States until Oct 2024. Prior to joining CamelBak, Chris was a Key Account Manager at CC8 Account Management Group and held the position of Key Account Manager at San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Chris was a Senior Materials Business Manager at JanSport, based in Alameda, California, United States from Jul 2010 to Apr 2019. Chris started working as Product Line Director at TIMBUK2 DESIGNS in San Francisco, California, United States in Oct 2006. From Oct 2005 to Oct 2006, Chris was Production Manager at GAP INC, based in San Francisco, California, United States. Prior to that, Chris was a Merchandising Manager at Koret of California from Mar 1995 to Mar 2004.
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Chris Chung's past jobs
Learning clients needs and goals and helping them achieve them.
Responsible for managing raw materials supply chain from strategy, sourcing, product stewardship, quality assurance, sustainability, quality controls and anti-counterfeiting. Manage Material and Trims Team to drive fabric process, innovation and support of design and development functions. Coordinate and manage materials research, testing, benchmarking and cost negotiation. Drive material innovations through vendor partnerships and market research. Develop and assist in vendor capacity, allocation and production strategies. Coordinate costing deliverables across RD&D, Operations, Finance and Sourcing to ensure margin targets are achieved.
Bags, Packs, Luggage and Accessories Manage the product development and assortment strategy for $24 million assortment Work with the marketing and design teams to develop strategies that support brand, product category and overall business evolution. P&L management. Responsible for top line and category financial planning/forecasting and creating/implementing product strategy to support sales and margin targets. Manages/oversees in-season production, and pre-production Analyze and determine gross margin return per product line Improved company margin by 15% increase. Weighted Margin increase from 40% to 55% in one year Formulate pre-season $/unit plans. Evaluate historical booking and current retail performance. Develop multiple groups/concepts per season Successfully launched Timbuk2 Travel, Pack and Bike collections. $3 million increase to revenue in first year
Men's/Boy's Gap Outlet, Old Navy Outlet Recommends/executes production strategy in partnership with sourcing channels Manages the communication of capacity reservations and pre-bookings Manages/oversees in-season production, and pre-production Confirms order placement with overseas offices Monitors and ensures on-time delivery
Manage the product development and sales of Missy and Women's divisions Support the creative design process for women's dress, separates and moderate sportswear. Develop and edit product lines. Evaluate trends and enhance product lines. Formulate pre-season $/unit plans. Evaluate historical booking and current retail performance. Analyze and determine gross margin return per product line Ability to recommend concepts, fabrication and styling to enhance and update collections