Job description
We are currently recruiting a Production Merchandiser to work within a friendly and fast paced team. You will naturally show passion for high street fashion with an understanding of current trends and consideration for the customers’ needs.
You will have experience with Critical Path Management, Liaising with Buyers, Production, Design, Fabric Teams and external partners.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage the critical path
- Action and manage customer and samples for all departments making sure that they arrive in good time and to the correct specifications.
- Ensure that design samples are submitted in a timely fashion and maintain a log of all garments submitted.
- Chase and issue responses following meetings.
- Data input on systems and flow sheets.
- Answer queries from factories, sales and in-house teams, ensuring any issues are resolved.
- Work with PDM and Intake plans on daily basis.
- Issue and chase weekly sales figures.
- Liaise in general with buyers, merchandisers, technologists, designers and factories on a daily basis.
- Raise and issue PO’s.
- Delegate work to junior team members.
- Price negotiation and cost engineering
- Trims purchase and stock control
Requirements:
- Relevant experience – independently managing critical path management.
- Ideally, fast fashion supplier experience
- Commercial and numerical with good analytical skills
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent organisation and co-ordination skills
- Good computer skills
- Proactive and uses initiative.