Location: Salford

Type: Permanent

Industry: Childrenswear

Job Ref: TGN4314

The Company:
An established clothing retailer are seeking an Assistant Merchandiser to join their growing team. The company supply clothing to the high street including Matalan, River Island, Next, Tesco, & ASDA. You will be working in the Merchandising team and supporting the Account Manager with day-to-day admin. This is a 6 month maternity contract to start early in June 2022. The working hours are Monday to Thursday 7.30am-4.15pm with a 1pm finish on a Friday. An excellent opportunity for an ambitious candidate with strong IT skills.

Benefits:

• Good Progression opportunities
• Annual reviews
• 35 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Stakeholder Pension
• Onsite parking & close to a tram stop
• 1pm finish on a Friday

The Role:

• Raise orders on the internal system and notify factories as required.
• Check lab dips/strike offs and bulk fabric submissions and send to the customer for approval.
• Input data into the internal shipping spreadsheet for the production and warehousing departments.
• Send approved design pack to customer.
• Manage Customer and Licensor approvals to meet critical path.
• Update critical path and send to the customer as required.
• Complete customer workbooks.
• Co-ordinate the checking and approval of invoices and packing lists.
• Check licensor approvals and upload onto the system.
• Order photographic samples with factories.
• Check gold seal samples and packaging.
• Ensure all paperwork is kept up to date and filed accordingly.
• Agree delivery dates with customer.
• Arrange and lead customer pre-production meetings
• Responsible for Gold Seal checking procedure and authorising shipment of goods
• Oversee photographic samples and ensure orders and dates are agreed with the factories.
• Ensure available stock is ‘called off’ against agreed time frames.
• Attend meetings with the customer as per agreement with the Account Manager.
• Other duties as required.

Skills Required:

• Be a recent Graduate – ideally Buying & Merchandising, Fashion Management or similar.
• Have strong IT skills including Excel.
• Good communication, planning & organising skills.
• Can work on own initiative and is focused on achieving results.
• Can build relationships easily.
• Meticulous/pays attention to detail