Wholesale Merchandiser Borehamwood, England
Job description
Supply Chain Manager
Site Based - Elstree. Permanent, Monday to Friday
Please Note: Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK
The company: The Souvenir Collection continues to be the leading specialist provider of accessories and gifting to attractions across the UK and Europe. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer custom designed, branded and quality products to suit the vision and needs of our customers.
About the position: This is a new and exciting opportunity to become our Supply Chain Manager. You will mainly be responsible for;
- Ensuring all date on critical path are met & purchase orders raised correctly
- Sealing sample process
- Quality control
- Maintaining factory audit documentation
- Managing stock levels and forecasting to core customer base
- Liaising with customer to ensure they are kept informed of order status
- Liaising with the Manchester despatch team once deliveries are ready at factory & providing correct documents and instructions for shipments
- Correctly maintaining CRM system with appropriate order status information
- Chasing UK third party suppliers against customer orders
- Negotiating pricing
- Ensure eco/sustainability credentials are met throughout supply chain
You will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure the success of effectively coordinating the flow of goods and information.
The role includes:
Order processing
- Raising sales orders onto the system, ensuring orders match customers documentation & relevant dates of delivery can be met
- SKUs / Barcodes- ensuring product codes & barcodes are correctly listed onto the system including customer SKUs for reference
- Raising POs for bespoke/non-stock lines/FOB
- Liaising with design team on correct artwork for order for production & sending artwork to be approved (full approval process including amends)
- Co-ordinating with customer on all packaging requirements (barcoding, labelling & polybags)
- Managing pre-production approvals
- Managing customer testing and QC/QA requirements & Factory audits
- Ensuring product labelling adheres to testing requirements
- Managing repeat / call off orders with customers and rebuys. Updating customers on their stock holding to prompt customers for call offs & re-orders with the factory
Product Development & Stock Management
· Critical Path for Far East lines being chased weekly with updates communicated to customers
· Creating product ranges briefed by customers alongside Account Manager
· Wide knowledge of materials and capability of Far East factories to be able to communicate complex product development with customers and specific high expectations and requirements
· Adhering to each individual customers specific sealing process (gold seal/black seal etc) and liaising between factory and customer to ensure changes to product have been made and approved
· Providing customers with up-to-date factory information and annual audits
· Completing customer product spec forms for each product line sold including a full breakdown of materials, composition & proof of eco credentials (certification from China needed)
· Ensuring all stages of critical path is met and timelines adhered to
· Resolving quality control issues which may arise
Key Skills & experience:
High level of attention to detail
Ability to prioritise according to value, risk, task size & dependencies
This role will be based at our Elstree offices, this is an office-based role with no remote working from Monday to Friday.
Benefits:
Pension
Scheme Cycle to Work Scheme
Buy and Sell Annual Leave
Eye Care Scheme
Birthday Day Off
Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £35,000.00-£38,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Work Location: In person
