Assoc Manager, Digital Project

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Date: 3 Feb 2026

Location: TR

Company: Coats

About Coats Digital

Coats is a global leader in thread manufacturing and structural components for apparel and footwear, as well as an innovative pioneer in performance materials. Our critical solutions are used to create a wide range of products — including those that provide safety and protection for people, data, and the environment.

Trusted by the world’s leading brands, we deliver innovative, high-quality, and sustainable solutions that add value across apparel, footwear, and specialty thread industries.

With a proud heritage of more than 250 years and a spirit of continuous evolution to meet changing market needs, Coats operates in 50 countries with a workforce of over 17,000 employees, serving customers around the world.

Headquartered in the UK, Coats connects talent, textiles, and technology to create a better and more sustainable future.

For more info, visit our website: www.coats.com

 

Role Purpose

We are seeking a Project Manager who is a driven individual, with proven experience in garment and textile manufacturing, who embraces new technology and understands the role of digitalisation in the fashion industry.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience and knowledge of project managing, production planning, garment and textile manufacturing, supply chain and supporting software and technology. Experience of managing software implementations into businesses, ideally manufacturing is highly desirable.

This is a senior delivery role, with a view to supporting the accelerated growth of the market and therefore the Project Manager needs to be able to operate with high autonomy, and demonstrate leadership skills in addition to being confident and articulate when liaising with Customer’s Senior Team.

Key Responsibilities and Main Activities

Reporting to the Professional Services Manager, you are responsible for defining and overseeing the project management process, playing a direct role in the day to day management and implementation of assigned projects, and supporting implementation consultants where they are playing a lead role. The Project Manager works closely with the client, and the Coats Digital team to ensure successful project delivery. A successful project is one which ensures customer satisfaction through on time, on cost and in full delivery of a solution, and such that it makes a real difference to a client’s business performance and allows Coats Digital to deliver on its own financial commitments. Throughout the project lifecycle the Project Manager demonstrates awareness of cost, speed, and efficiency drivers, (both internally and client side), as well as commercial influences, adapting accordingly.

The Project Manager must understand the client’s requirements, as well as industry best practice and software capability, translating these into the Coats Digital software configuration and project plan, whilst being mindful of a client’s business processes (both as-is and to-be). The configuration must support, streamline, and enhance these processes to enable the client to demonstrate a strong return- on-investment (ROI). The project plan must be aligned to the client’s plan, Coats Digital resources, and targets, and should include all the activities required to deliver the solution.

The Project Manager needs to possess following core competencies:

 

  • Quality Assurance
  • Team Management
  • Process Planning & Improvement
  • Capacity Enhancement
  • Quality of delivery


The Project Manager will become an expert in the fashion supply chain, project management and Coats Digital products keeping pace with development.

  • Reporting Team
  • Support Teams
  • Development Teams
  • QA Teams
  • Professional Services Teams
  • Commercial Teams
  • Customers
  • Agents
  • 3rd Party Suppliers

 

 

Education, Qualifications and Experience

(Include skills and competencies required to perform the role competently)

Essential

Desirable

Educational

  • Masters with more than 60% marks
  • Fluency in English & Turkish
  • Communicate effectively and build strong working relationships with clients and internal employees at all levels.
  • Articulate and document technical requirements to the development team, ensuring the solution.

Experience

  • Highly Competent and dynamic management professional with over 10 years of experience in the field of Garments production and controlling activities;
  • Equipped noteworthy project management expertise with the knowledge of stores and materials management processes, procedures and policies with the understanding of specialized materials handling procedures, administration and storage.
  • Ability to produce clear, concise procedural documentation, eliciting accurate information and responding to the inquiries.
  • Equipped with the analytical skills in providing support to the management regarding financial monitoring, reporting & forecasting; setting priorities and work effectively.
  • Highly inquisitive, creative & talented Professional with significant and progressive experience in driving Quality Management Initiatives.
  • Ability to exercise tact and diplomacy and deal with people in an effective manner in sometimes sensitive situations to resolve client issues with effective negotiation and persuasion skills to establish and maintain relationships with clients and vendors.
  • Efficiently handling pre production & production process. Enhancing production feasibility by strict measures and coordinating between merchants & factories for optimum utilization of resources.
  • Designing and implementing systems, processes and procedures to facilitate smooth functioning of overall production operations and enhance operational efficiency.
  • Ability to develop robust strategies to plan the production schedule and diligently allocate tasks to the personnel to accomplish the pre-set targets.
  • Well versed in handling pre-production activities like material costing, process planning, machinery and equipment planning to ensure productivity.
  • Controlling the production line with constant monitoring of WIP and ensured line balancing.
  • Working closely with operators to understand reasons for inefficiency and resolved the issues through group meetings thus motivating the operators.
  • Analyzing production lines and products to meet quality standards and reduce wastage of rework.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Equipped with the analytical skills in providing support to the management regarding financial monitoring, reporting & forecasting; set priorities and work effectively under pressure of high-volume work.
  • Skilled in managing the human, financial and material resources in meeting predetermined/ cyclical deadlines, to plan and manage work programmes and to lead, motivate and provide effective guidance to a team of professional and support staff.
  • Productivity improvement and training set up of Industrial engineering team.

 

 

 

Why Join Us

At Coats Group, we are committed to innovation, excellence, and fostering a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment where every team member can thrive.
If you are passionate about driving quality and innovation in the textile industry and eager to join a global leader with a rich heritage and forward-thinking vision, we invite you to take the next step in your career with us.

Apply now and be part of a team shaping the future of textiles.