Colorist

What's the Short Version?

The Colorist position ensures the integrity of color across multiple product categories and comprises a specialized focus over select proprietary collections. The position is responsible for the management of color from development through to finished production, including the communication and integration with resource base, vendor relationship management, color standards, performance monitoring, and actioning initiatives to continually improve the consistency of color of SanMar products. This position reports to the Product Color Manager and involves partnering with Product Quality Assurance, Product Development/Sourcing, and Merchandising teams, as well as with our international supply base.

 

What Will You Be Doing?

• Manage color submissions; visually and electronically (spectrophotometer) from multiple suppliers and across different product categories efficiently and with precision.
• Make critical pass/fail decisions independently having a direct impact on products.
• Facilitate, manage and collaborate with internal and external business partners to identify and implement efficiencies to the color approval process, including vendor submittals, electronic color communication and enhancing vendor knowledge of SanMar product.