Merchandiser

Open costs / quoting:
• Responsible for liaising with suppliers to get all fabrics / trims / accessories prices
• Produce and update bom and open costs based on various possible order quantities
• Negotiation with suppliers and factories to achieve price targets
• Support and follow up with factories for “best” terms - including costing, delivery dates, payment terms, etc. - for the company.
• In charge of keeping the supplier’s database up to date at all time
• Actively report all suppliers’ performance issues, assist in sourcing and evaluating new suppliers in china / pakistan / bangladesh / india and south east asia region for fabric, trims and accessories as necessary.

Bulk production follow up - in charge of several customers’ accounts
• Report directly to the company management on a daily basis
• Manage the entire bulk production life cycle with china and / or vietnam suppliers up to the shipment
• Work closely with factories in order to ensure they fully and accurately understand requirements for all tech packs, time lines, pricing, packaging, testing, delivery deadlines, quality standards and compliance.
• Responsible for providing customer’s guidelines to factories and monitoring their strict application during the whole bulk production process.
• Ensure with suppliers that bulk yardage, accessories and trims are delivered on time to ensure agreed delivery date is met
• Follow up all requested samples and on time delivery
• Liaise with the sample room to get the sample checked and responsible for putting together the report and for sending it to the customer
• Liaise between factories and qc 3rd party to ensure all garments’ quality requirements are met during inline and final check
• Support in monitoring all delivery related issues: responsible for execution and weekly updates in writing for all pos, and ensure timely and accurate information is given to the management team.
• Follow up with other members of the team in charge of documentation, shipping and logistics issues, to ensure on time ex-factory and boarding of vessel.

Administrative part
• Responsible for gathering all related invoices and pass them to accounting department
• Review of loss and profit per customer
• Responsible for daily updating of the detailed production planning through internal erp
• Monitoring all delivery issues and responsible for weekly updates in writing and ensure timely and accurate information is given to the management team.
• Follow up with other members of the team in charge of documentation, shipping and logistics issues, to ensure on time ex-factory and boarding of vessel.

• Diploma or university degree holder in apparel merchandising or a related field is preferred
• Excellent verbal and written english skills with outgoing, extroverted personality
• Skilled with adobe illustrator / excel
/ word / powerpoint…
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills, strong in negotiation and problem solving
• Organised, determination and perseverance in reaching goals with a never give up attitude
• Minimum 5 years merchandising experience in apparel industry
• Experience within parkas, coats, downwear, jackets, sweaters categories is necessary
• Previous experience in managing small orders from 300 pieces
• Perfect understanding of garments constructions and quoting process and previous strong quoting experience required

Package: Salary to be discussed based on experience and skills