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Production Merchandiser

Job Type : Permanent, Full Time

Salary : £32000 – £35000/annum

What will I do?

.Manage capacity responsibly across the business ensuring that right product, right supplier.

· Building strong supplier relationships to support partnership approach

· Overseeing the Production Planning of our Key Suppliers.

· Managing the Production Critical path across allocated vendors.

· Proactively chase and follow-up with factories on status of orders

· Work with factories to follow-up on unconfirmed late and orders

· Factory schedules – checking to make sure all orders on and planned with correct dates.

· Plan fabric critical path with fabric team and giving details of cut dates to sales team.

· Inform factory to re-plan production and confirm delivery date following any fabric delivery date/ order detail change.

· Resolve purchase issues (researching, clarifying, and resolving issue). This includes working with Product Creation, Sales, Finance, Logistics etc

· Factory debits – checking to make sure deducted from invoices and should keep record what has been deducted from which invoices.

· Dealing with and managing daily e-mails and factory issues and suggesting solutions.

· Weekly production meeting with internal teams.

· Working closely with Sourcing Partners, Merchandising, Operations and Product Development team to maximise opportunities

· Contribute to creation of seasonal buy calendar and other dates relevant for Planning

· Improving process and efficiencies within our supply base

· Prepare reports for Operations, Product, Finance, and Management Team

What skills and qualities will I need?

Key skills:

· Over 3 years of experience of working in a similar role.

· Good understanding of garment manufacturing , production line management and raw material management.

· Understanding of Sports, and FMCG/Fashion Industry preferred

· Ability to work cross-functionally, liaising with peer groups across the business to drive efficiencies and results

· Ability to work within strict deadlines and able to be adaptive to changes

· Comfortable in a fast-paced and ever-changing business environment

· Excellent planning and organisation skills

· Flexible approach and willingness to further learn & adapt in a fast pace growing business

· High level of proficiency with MS Office, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Personal qualities:

· Strong attention to detail & a natural problem solver

· Excellent interpersonal skills

· Organisation, planning, able to juggle multiple projects at once

· Confidence in own ability to challenge current ways of working, whilst delivering recommendations for improved process

· Be a team player

· Be results driven

· Share our ambitious outlook

· Have a Better Never Stops Attitude

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

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