Location: Manchester
Type: Permanent
Industry: Accessories
Job Ref: TGN5236
The Company:
Our client is currently looking to recruit an experienced Import Merchandiser to join their busy team. The company are a well-established company that design, manufacture and supply accessories to various high street retailers.
Working hours: Monday – Thursday 8:00am-16:30pm with 30min lunch break and Friday 8:00am-13:00pm, no lunch break
Company pension
The Role:
- Liaise with various Far East factories chasing design & seal samples and maintaining sample trackers.
- Ordering labels and maintaining the label stock sheets
- Place raw material orders for fabrics and components
- Chase deliveries of materials and components and update the factories, whilst ensuring CP dates are maintained
- Chase the customer to ensure we have size breakdowns and barcode details to ensure CP dates are maintained
- Check and measure fabrics and samples upon receipt
- Create master pre-production internal fit workbooks.
- Record and log the test reports
- Ensure weekly production plans are received from the factories
- Ensure the weekly production plans are updated and sent to the customer
- Arrange freight import quotes and monitor progress
- Arrange customer warehouse bookings for delivery
- Provide shipment paperwork and AQL’s from factory prior to ex-factory dates to customer
Skills:
- Minimum of 3 years merchandising experience
- Good organisational skills, able to prioritise
- Be able to work well to deadlines
- Multi task
- Experience communicating with factories and customers
- Self-motivated
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 based on length of service)
- Monday – Thursday 8.00am-4.30pm
- Friday – 8.00am – 1.00pm
- Bupa Cashplan
- Company pension
- Work for a Trust which is for the benefit of all staff (including beneficiary payments dependant on company performance)
- Bonus (dependant on company performance)