Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: Ladieswear

Job Ref: TGN5377

The Company:

We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Import Merchandiser to support the Import Merchandising team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on brands across men’s, ladies and children’s and with high street and online retailers. Working closely with the design team, merchandisers, tech team and factories ensuring all orders are raised timely and production runs efficiently and on time.

Responsibilities:

• Costing product and raising purchase orders on Navision system for key customer accounts.
• Communication with factories worldwide by email and phone.
• Maintaining accurate critical path and chasing in trims and samples from factories to ensure goods ship on schedule.
• Ensuring shipment dates are kept up to date.
• Liaise with other in house teams to meet customer specific requirements.
• Working with QA team to check samples and prioritise workload.
• Liaison with shipping forwarders and logistics team.

Skills Required:

• 3 + years experience in an import merchandiser role for a fashion supplier
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, internal and external.
• Attention to detail.
• Highly organised with good negotiation skills
• Good Excel knowledge
• Keen to learn and progress within a friendly team.
• Experience in Direct FOB business would be helpful.