Location: Leicester
Type: Permanent
Industry: Ladieswear
Job Ref: TGM2079
The Company:
An opportunity for a Merchandiser/ Product Developer to join an established supplier to the High Street Retailers. Hybrid available
The Role:
- Motivated, enthusiastic and have a drive to push sales (identify sales opportunities)
- Ability to handle pressure and deadlines
- Manage current departments and generate new business leads
- Fast paced and on the ball
- Knowledge on trends / Licenses and garment construction would be an advantage
- Efficient
- Respond and engage to new order enquiries
- Excellent communication skills as working directly with the customers/ hubs / factories
- Be able to negotiate prices with factories via Turkey to meet customer targets and close orders
- Work closely with designers and merchandise teams to present solutions to customer to simplify design and maintain a good overall sales price
- Working closely with the merchandise team & problem solving issues to avoid discounts
- Team player and able to build strong customer relations and with factories
- Confirm costings and delivery dates with customer
- Aim to learn the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) System
- Chase sample developments with the in country teams and feedback to customer on status
- Have experience to manage development critical path, updating and chasing daily for approvals
- Providing customer with weekly updates through Critical path document
- Arrange samples in house to post to buying teams
- Confident to offer new products to the customer
- Admin heavy based role so must be well organised
Skills Required:
- Experience of working in ladies or childrenswear, jersey or knitted products is advantageous.
- Must understand costings.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Fully computer literate.