Merchandiser Professional (Contract role)

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• Drive Commercialization Excellence: Lead the delivery of Brand promises from the region by driving product excellence for assigned categories. Deliver Accuracy, Completeness and Timeliness in Costing, Product Development and Commercialization Process for all assigned categories. Facilitate direct development opportunities with key Suppliers and Home Office Teams. Develop, standardize, and continually improve processes related to commercialization.
• Initiate, manage and direct the Product development process to ensure the successful completion of a fully commercialized style ready for production.
• Monitors progress of the process to ensure that style development is accomplished within established timelines. Review new style request prior to dispersal to supplier to ensure accuracy, completeness and practicality for mass production. Anticipate problems, offer solutions, develop strategies and address issues within the product process.
• Responsible for the successful execution of the costing process related to styles under merchandiser’s responsibility. Negotiate cost to meet CSC price margin targets.
• Initiates and manages sales sample process and makes sure that sales samples of correct quality are delivered in time for the sales meeting. Coordinates between departments and teams within and outside CSC to make sure successful execution of sales samples from all factories.
• Ensure Styles are Buy Ready for production.
• Ensure all PDX/LO processes are adhered is all assigned category tasks during execution of Development, Costing and Commercialization.
• Update and maintain CSC tracking reports to monitor Product development, Costing and commercialization progress against calendar timelines. Analyze respective category status and provide updates on progress to MM.
• Drive cost Competitiveness and Accuracy Work with MM to continually seeking improvements and efficiencies for the category, through product engineering opportunities. Investigate and recommend product cost savings opportunities, as an input to the Cost Engineering process.
• Calendar Timelines & Sales Sample Process: Execute seasonal category calendar as it relates to LO activities. Find efficiencies and drive improvements in calendar and workflow management internally and externally. Ensure adherence to deadlines through effective team and process management. Lead the sales sample buy ready process and enable full clarity of styles for quality sales sample production.

Who can apply

• University degree in Manufacturing, Business, or related field.
• 2-3 year’s relevant experience in production, merchandising, development or a manufacturing environment, preferably in the garment industry or related soft goods industry.
• Knowledge of the Apparel Manufacturing and its associated upstream and downstream business processes.
• Requires a well-developed ability to read, write, and speak English, in relation to topics of a highly complex or technical nature.
• This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

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