The Company:
An experienced Merchandiser is needed to join a highly successfully supplier to large multiples, wholesalers and e-traders.
The Role:
- Daily communication with customers and factories to update critical path with order progress.
- Maintaining critical path to ensure on time delivery to the customer.
- Working closely with factories and internal teams to ensure goods are shipped correctly and timely.
- Acting as point of contact for key accounts, providing updates and developing strong relationships.
- Management of production schedule, ensuring tasks are completed to plan to maintain the agreed shipment dates.
- Inputting sales orders onto the system.
- Placing garment purchase orders and raising Letters of Credit.
- Send contracts to factories and obtain confirmation of ex-factory dates and costs.
- Arranging fully informed artwork, size specs, packaging requirements to factories for all new orders.
- Develop or source all relevant packaging and barcodes.
- Working closely with the garment technical to ensure quality standards are met and inform factory on next steps.
- Analysing 1st samples for styling and production techniques and feedback instruction to factory on how to proceed.
- Feedback all fit comments to factories, ensuring all comments are adhered to for next sample.
- Managing testing and analysing reports, ensuring testing standards are adhered to.
- Driving development, pre-prod and production sealing, ensuring specifics are met for each retailer, and gaining the appropriate approval from the customer at each stage.
- Overseeing shipping for all orders, using customer specific booking platforms and freight forwarders.
- Invoice and packing list management.
- Managing various e-booking platforms including invoicing, packing lists and COO documentation requirements for specific retailers.
Skills Required:
- Must have previous experience working for a busy supplier.
- Preference will be given to candidates with a baby/childrenswear background.
- Exceptional communication, organisational and presentation skills.
- Working knowledge of critical paths.
- Experience of liaising with Far East on a daily basis.
- Knowledge of the production cycle.
- Able to work effectively in a fast paced environment.
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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.
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